Yesterday I bought Laura's birthday present: a tiny barebone Shuttle SK41G. This little champ wears: chipset VIAKM266/8235, a built-in S3 Savage8 VGA card (I'm afraid it sucks), Realtek ACL650 sound card (supports 5.1), built-in Realtek ethernet 8100B, AGP and PCI slots, all kind of ports and TV out. I've decided to put the minimun (and cheapest) accessories: an AMD Duron 1600 processor, 256 Mb of memory (DDR 266 MHz), 40 Gb hard disk

The other day, when I got home, I turned on the computer and LiLO failed :-| "WTF!" --I thought--- "I bet my brother has something to do with this..." Whatever, I post this so that I don't forget it any more.

Recovering the (lost) LiLO:

Two hours ago I've finally finished the dissertation of my research-year and I've sent it to my advisor. I guess I still need to read it conscientiously in order to correct typos, add some figure and things like that but the worst part of the hard work is already done. The deadline is next tuesday but I do want to hand it ASAP: tomorrow if I can.

If accepted, I have to defend it in the present of a board of examiners on July, 14.

Richard Stallman is on tour in Spain for two weeks, visiting universities and some late night tv shows, like a famous rock star. Note that most people don't know who he is, but little by little he's finding important places in press. Linux is not a extrange term any more, free software either.

This morning I've finished the first version of my 2nd-year research dissertation and finally I've given it to Julio (I should've done this last friday, though).

Today, Labor Day, is a happy day for Europe: ten new countries (most of them, part of the former Comunist Bloc) become members of the European Union which also means the biggest enlargement and the definitive union after the Cold War and the Second World War.

Yesterday, we received good and bad news: on one hand, the first paper we sent to the ACL 2004 Main Conference was accepted and this happen to be a huge success for the UNED's NLP Group 'cause it's the first time we get it!! We all were pretty happy and we even celebrated it taking a shot of Mezcal: someone remembered there was the bottle a couple of Mexican visitors brought some months ago, and nobody noticed it was 11 a

Finally, on last April, 12 I was confirmed that my university had accepted funding my internship at the USC Information Sciences Institute. From September to December I'll be working with the guru and his team at ISI's Natural Language Group, which will be a great experience.

This is the first entry of my journal, just to try how it works. I usually post in my so-called blog: Ignoto et quasi Occulto.

When will we have the second post?? Mmm... I dunno.