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October 26th, 2004 - I was finishing my master degree in robotic planning. My blog was in portuguese, and I used to post many times a month, talking mostly about my personal experiences in my daily life. I was translating Battle for Wesnoth, living in Barao Geraldo, and marveling at the fact that I met the guy who works in a restaurant I often used to go buying the stuff he would cook that day in the same supermarket that I use. I was reading American Gods.

October 26th, 2005 - I had recently moved to Kashiwa - Japan, after living for 6 months in Komaba, Tokyo. I used to spend a lot of time playing RPGMaker games, and I liked watching the spiders in Kashiwa Building. Around that time, I was posting many times a week, and on the 26th itself, I had bought myself an USB pendrive (I still have it) - having choosen it because it announced Linux support on its packaging. Oh, the blog was already in english.

October 26th, 2006 - I was dating Marilia, and we were planning our costumes for a halloween party. I was back to posting once or twice a week. I was kinda mad at all the monbusho paperwork I had to fill, and halfway through with my master degree. I had a lot of contact with people at kashiwa at the time, and very little contact with other brazillian students. I was playing a lot of Nexus Wars at the time.

October 26th, 2007 - I had just finished installing ubuntu in two of my laptops. This would mark the end of my debian-user career and the start of my ubuntu-using days. I had just finished my Master degree, and had moved in to Tokyo with Marilia. I was starting to stop posting - october 2007 has only 3 posts, although all three are fairly interesting and general posts, unlike my “Today I met the guy who works in my restaurant” kind of post from 2004. On the other hand, going with the machine-gun mentality, I probably had more total interesting posts back then… I was playing a lot of Mafia at the time.

October 26th, 2008 - I’m still in Tokyo, starting the second year of my Phd. I have really slacked off with the blog - I think I don’t have 10 posts in the whole year. I’m going to the gym and to dance classes, though. I lost contact with most of my kashiwa friends, and gained contact with Brazilian students in the Tokyo area. I’m playing a lot of DF, and some RPG on the side. I just finished reading “The name of the rose”

There you go, a vertical slice of my life. I’m not very sure of where the inspiration to this came from. I don’t want to judge, or to reflect - sometimes you can learn a lot just by watching and getting a sense of perspective.

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