Óscar Pereira
The fellow in the photo. Programmer, professional paranoid, clever playfulness enthusiast (computers and beyond!). A practitioner (engineer) by trade, quietly morphing into a theoretician.1
Contact information and CV. Contact information is here. Curriculum Vitæ, here.
Additional information. Before leaving you with this site’s table of contents, so that you can navigate at will, here are two more things you should know. Primo, if the top black navigation bar is not visible, move the cursor to near the top of the browser’s viewport, and it will be shown (non-mobile browsers only). Secondo, in what the texts I write are concerned, it is my personal choice to, when referring to my hypothetical reader, variously do so as “he” and “she”, more or less at random. The reason for doing so is explained here.
Happy readings! ☺
Table of Contents (a.k.a. Site Map)
Essays. I write essays, in two languages: English and my native (European) Portuguese—but without using that ghastly wretched Portuguese new orthography!!2
Blah. For short remarks, about no particular topic. In other words it’s like a blog, except it isn’t.
Things written by others. Beyond the essays and remarks I write, I also keep a local copy of things written by others, but that turned out to be so difficult to find, that I decided to keep a local copy, at this humble (digital) abode of mine. Furthermore, I keep a log of the reports on Julian Assange’s extradition show trial.
Software. I also write software.
LaTeX. Then there is the bottomless pit of LaTeX—although hopefully some of stuff below helps make that pit a little less bottomless. We have:
The templates that I use for most tasks.
Some package related info I collected over the years.
Other LaTeX-trickery.
My list of BiBTeX entries.
My TikZ experiments.
Personal notes. I keep some ancillary notes on the stuff I read/research. I write them mostly for my own “bookkeeping” of acquired knowledge, but maybe they will be useful to others.
Photography & Travel. I enjoy writing about my travels—which, in addition to writing proper, also involves quite a few photographies.
Siteroll. Last but not least, there is the list of online sites that I occasionally take a look at.
· · · Enjoy it while it lasts!3 · · ·
Professional paranoia: see here. Clever playfulness: it is one way to describe the original—rather than the posterior, “Hollywood-esque”—meaning of the word “hacker.” See here and here for details. It also applies beyond computers; e.g. in the words of Schneier, «Richard Feynman was a hacker; read any of his books.»↩︎
See here for the disgraceful manner in which the Portuguese butchered their own language ☹ ↩︎
Oh, and this site you’re currently visiting, is also one of the few that is printer friendly!↩︎