tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-187552842011-07-28T18:45:53.619+03:00"...But I don't feel like saving the World...."Jannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488899319457962036noreply@blogger.comBlogger1981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18755284.post-26048485230487306722010-01-29T10:57:00.003+02:002010-01-29T11:53:33.399+02:00

So the complaining about the iPad continues. Like I said before, this is nothing new, all new products from Apple receive huge amount of critique after they are launched. Everyone has totally overblown expectations regarding the device, and when they actually get something that does not fulfill every hare-brained fantasy, people complain.This time I'm going to discuss the iPad from two (or three,

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Three years ago Apple announced the iPhone. While people were generally speaking impressed, there were the naysayers. Competitors, people who generally dislike Apple and so forth. Usually their arguments regarding the crappiness of the iPhone related to some features it was missing. Nokia famously quipped that iPhone is not going to get anywhere because it does not have 3G. Others complained that

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Many moons ago I mentioned that when it gets really cold, we sometimes see "Pillars of light". They are... um, pillars of light that rise from bright lights. I finally managed to take picture of them, and by popular request:

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Technology is weird. Or rather, people get weird when it comes to technology. I would say that people that are more in to technology (read: geeks) get even weirder.I have a confession to make: I'm a Mac-user. In fact, I'm unashamed Apple-fanboy (not the fanatic kind, but still). It seems to me that Steve Jobs knows what I need before I know it myself. End-result is that I have spent quite a lot

Jannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488899319457962036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18755284.post-82938098167900942562009-03-10T09:46:00.003+02:002009-03-10T12:18:13.581+02:00

I have a confession to make: long ago when I heard that they are making a movie about The Watchmen, one of the first questions that popped in my head was "Will Dr. Manhattan be naked?". The answer is: Yes he is.In some ways that fact tells quite a lot about the movie. It would have been very easy for Zack Snyder to not show Dr. Manhattans man-meat onscreen. But he did. Why? Because they showed it

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If you are interested in qualioty webcomics, I would suggest that you click here. then you could proceed to read rest of the strips.As I was reading those strips (in fact, I have been a reader for quite some time) I ran in to A Softer World. I read it, and liked what I saw. Then I reached this strip. It was that moment when I realised that it was handiwork of a superior intellect.

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I like comfort, warmth, softness and cozyness. So when I decorate (or rather, tell the Mrs. what I would like to have, and hope she agrees with me), those four words are my guiding light.Some time ago I told the Mrs. that I would like to get a... what do you call them, pedestal lamp? Anyway, I wanted to get one of those for our living-room, so that if you want to sit on the couch and read

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I get nervous when I see quotes in places where the shouldn't be any quotes. Like menu. Apparently tomorrow we will be having spinach "pancakes" at the company cafeteria.It's like if you go to a restaurant, and the dish includes red wine sauce, potatoes, seasons vegetables and "meat"...

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Many moons ago I commented that "300" is "100% guy-movie". Well, it might or might not be. But last weekend I realized that there IS an undisputed, ultimate guy-movie in the world:That's right, "Predator"! A classic Schwarzenegger-movie from 1987!Seriously, this movie has it all. Funny one-liners, great action (too much to link to), memorable scenes, it's oozing with macho-bullshit and it has a

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...against stupidity goes on. And it does not look good. No matter how many facts and studies you bring to the table, some people refuse to believe.*sigh*

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One of the welcomed visitors in the bird-feeders across Finland every winter is this 'lil buddy. But they are not without mystery. While they are quite common during winter, I have never, EVER seen one during the summer. No, they don't migrate away during summer, apparently they are still with us. I have been told that during the summer they spend their time deep in forests, and they only come

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Finnish Christmas is somewhat different than Christmas observed in USA and most other countries. For starters, packages are not handed out on Christmas Day, but on Christmas Eve. Reason for that is probably due to the fact that Santa lives in Finland, so he delivers our presents first, but I'm sure you all knew that already.There's also another piece of Finnish Christmas that is not sadly that

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Happy new year everybody! Call me crazy, but I have always liked odd years more than even years, so here's to hoping that 2009 will be even better than 2008 was (global economic meltdown permitting....).I tried to take pictures of fireworks for the first time, and the attached pics is one of the results. The location was not ideal (those damn trees), but it's not too shabby in the end.

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They released "Sim City" for the iPhone. I just installed it yesterday, and yes, it seems to be the real deal!This is the first time I wish that I had longer commute...

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It's been a while since i said more than two words here. It's just that... I haven't had anything that interesting to say. I don't live THAT interesting life. But I don't really mind it that much. As the Chinese curse says: "may you live in interesting times". Well, I live pretty sedate life. I'm the kind of guy who dreams of going home after busy workday, putting some fire in the fireplace (if I

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The world that is. Starting from yesterday.Damn you snow.

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I live a comfortable middle-class lifestyle. I have a car, a nice home, computers, gizmos and all the other things that define "modern western lifestyle". And I do like that lifestyle.But on the other hand there is part in me that dreams of giving all that up. That dreams of simple life far away from the crowded cities.Few months ago I saw a story on TV about this Norwegian man, who quit his job,

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I just noticed that the "When the Wind Blows" is on youtube. It's the anumation from the eighties about an elderly couple and nuclear war. It's based on a graphic novel of the same name.It's just so sad and touching. No happy ending, no joy, no hope.

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The Greens in the Helsinki metropolitan area released their proposal for congestion-charges for the city. I wont comment on the actual idea of congestion-charges, but I DO want to comment on their proposal, which is downright stupid.The charge works as you might expect: you need to pay if you drive to the metro-area. You can either pay per kilometer, or you can buy a monthly "pass". If you buy

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Me: Honey, do you remember that domestic period-movie you wanted to go see few months ago, but we never did?Her: Yeah....Me: Well, there's another domestic period-piece in the movies at this very moment. Would you like to go see it?Her: Well....Me: It's tagline is "Wash your sins". How about it?Her: ...You are weird, you are so weird!Needless to say, we didn't go see that one...

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I got my new speakers yesterday. And they sound fabulous. And everything is so easy to use that non-geeks can handle it as well. The speakers turn on automatically when I start to listen to some music, and they turn off when I stop listening. Even the Mrs. acknowledged that they sound great, and that's quite a confession, since she hates the idea of speakers.It's weird how, in the end, the

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A while ago I blogged about my plans to upgrade my television, stereos etc. It ended with frustration, since even simplest upgrade required upgrades somewhere else, end-result being thousands of euros being "invested" in technology that will lose value very fast.Obviously, my original plan was flawed, since it required such a large investment. So I took a fresh look at how to proceed. And I

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It occured to me few days ago that I'm actually starting to see some changes in my appearance, thanks to the gym. I can see muscles where there were no muscles before. No, I don't have a sixpack, I have a monopack, but boy is it a big one! Too bad that it's located at my belly...My monopack can keep company to my monobrow. Yes, I have singular eye-brow and I'm proud of it!

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...has so far cost me about 90 euros.

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I mentioned in my previous post that I couldn't vote for Christian Democrats, since that would bring with it all kinds or religious stuff I have zero interest in supporting. And just to be sure, the leader of Christian Democrats has opened her mouth and reminded me why I should not and could not vote for them. Ever."Olen pääministerin kanssa samaa mieltä siitä, että koulusurmissa kohdataan uusi

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We had another shootout in Finland, and this time the number of casualties is even higher: 11 dead (including the gunman). I wont try to make any excuses. The fact is that there is something wrong with the society. The interesting thing is that all the people who have done something like this (Gerdt, Auvinen and Saari) are all people who lived through the early-nineties recession when they were

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Some time ago I was glancing through one of those Richard Scarry "Busytown"-books in a bookstore. It showed the animals in various situations around the town, and the picture told the names of the items they were interacting with. Like "Ladder", "a bus" etc. One picture was about a member of the pig-family buying some groceries. The items in the grocery-store included "a ham" and "bacon"...

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There has been a storm in a teacup over here. What happened is that someone decided to hang a nazi-flag in his balcony in Helsinki. People noticed it, and called the police. The cops came over, inspected the situation and told the people "There's nothing we can do. It's not illegal to display a flag on your balcony". After a while, someone climbed to the balcony, and ripped the flag down, while

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Well, I'm not entirely happy with it, and I would change few things in it in hindsight. But my excuse is that it was more like a stream of thought and it took me a whole 15 minutes to write it.

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Charles d'Albret was anxious for battle. He felt that his entire life was just preparation for this moment. On the other side of the muddy field, he could see his enemy: a band of Englishmen with hardly any knights among them. Surely that group of peasants was no match for his larger force of mounted knights and men-at-arms?He removed his helmet, so he could get a better look of his surroundings.

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Like I mentioned a while ago, I'm in the market for a netbook. I have been charting my options for quite some time, and so far this is the situation right now:Asus EEEThis is the granddaddy of netbooks. The computer range from 199e 700-series model with 7" screen. 512MB of RAM and 4GB Flash-HD, to 399e EEE 901, with 8.9" screen, 1GB of RAM, Intel Atom CPU, better battery and 20GB Flash-HD. There

Jannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488899319457962036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18755284.post-83918309135400829412008-09-10T22:06:00.002+03:002008-09-10T22:09:22.173+03:00

First tests of the LHC seem to be a success! Hopefully this initial success is just a taste of things to come!

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Every time I step out of the train in the morning, I need to walk this past older gentleman who hands out free newspapers in the train-station. I think he gets paid a nominal fee for the service he provides. But since I read those very same newspapers on the train, I do not need to get a newspaper from him. And that fact torments me.When I walk past him, and not take the newspaper he offers, I

Jannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488899319457962036noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18755284.post-63455176335576949932008-09-03T09:42:00.002+03:002008-09-03T09:51:31.715+03:00

I'm typing this post using the brand-new browser from Google: Chrome. Am I a nerd because I was actually anxious to get to work, so I could install and test the new browser? I bet I am. I couldn't test it at home since I have no Windows-machines to test it with.I must say that Google has done a mighty fine job with this browser. It's a beta-version, so there will be some issues, but so far it's

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In some ways, this is related to my previous blog-post, but I decided to dedicate a separate post to this.I have a dilemma. Every proper household needs equipment that can be used to listen to music. We (that is, Mrs. and I) have none. Which is ironic, considering that we own more music than we have ever owned before. What do we have? Well, we have two radios and a laptop. And those aren't really

Jannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488899319457962036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18755284.post-87052200273384924662008-08-26T09:42:00.003+03:002008-08-26T11:41:19.546+03:00

It seems that there are always lots of things I want to do. Quite often nothing ever comes of those plans, because I'm inherintly lazy person. And it could be said that often my plans don't make sense. I mean, I could do stuff that improve me as a person and as an employee, therefore boosting my future prospects. But often my plans are something that have pretty limited benefits for me. But then

Jannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488899319457962036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18755284.post-14046912714917313862008-08-12T15:40:00.003+03:002008-08-12T15:42:21.774+03:00

I'm few weeks late, but I literally found out about the existence of this trailer just few minutes ago! Of course I have know that they are making a movie about "Watchmen", but I had no idea they had a trailer up & running.Yes, it kicks ass. If the movie is even half as good as the graphic novel, we are in for a treat.

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Yesterday I had a short discussion with the Mrs.:Me: "Honey, what would you think if I bought this collection of hardcover Calvin & Hobbes-comics? It contains every single C&H-strip ever published! And they are in these beautiful hardcover-volumes!"Her: "How about not?"Me: "But I don't have all the strips at this moment. Also, I could then sell my current C&H-comics to the used-books-store"Her: "

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I might be a geek, but '39 by Queen is a brilliant song on so many levels. No wonder Brian May got a Ph.D in Astrophysics.

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For the last four weeks I have been more or less totally out of the loop, thanks to my summer-vacation consisting more or less of living in the middle of the forest (literally! Well, almost). This utter cluelessness is best demonstrated by the fact that I'm oblivious to this "Star Wars: Clone Wars"-thingy that greeted me this morning as I stepped out of the train. Huh? Clone Wars? Premieres later

Jannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488899319457962036noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18755284.post-32408658853315457722008-07-16T13:56:00.003+03:002008-07-16T14:42:32.650+03:00

I have been away for over a week now. I was visiting my ol' stomping-grounds up north, and then I drove back here with the Mrs. stopping by to visit my mother. And since my mother lives in about the middle between this place and my birthplace up north, it's a convenient place to spend the night and rest.While we were there, I recalled an incident that took place few years ago. Me and Mrs. were

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Last night at midnight I heard my phone making some noise downstairs. It was a calendar-reminder. So i got out of the bed half-conscious and started walking down the stairs. As I got to the bottom of the stairs, the semi-conscious state got the best of me. I thought that I was at the very last step, when in fact I wasn't. What I thought to be a step on a solid floor was actually a step in to thin

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The Mrs. has (more or less) lost her voice for now. She has some kind of infection in her throat, and it's quite hard for her to speak. So this weekend has been pretty quiet, literally. I had my annual review about a week ago, and everything went well. Well, I didn't really achieve my goal of getting absolute top-scores, but I still got very good scores, and what's more important, the actual

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So I have been going to the gym for almost a month now. And I still like it a lot. This just goes to show how important it is to find the activity that you like. I don't care for walking all that much, and since that was just about the only option at the table, I didn't exercise that much. But now that there's an activity I LIKE doing, I'm actually looking forward to it, as opposed to viewing it

Jannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02488899319457962036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18755284.post-66713119707028366402008-04-23T12:49:00.002+03:002008-04-23T15:02:52.463+03:00

So I became a paying member of a gym. The Mrs. and the sister in-law talked me in to it. And I must admit: I need it. I'm in terrible shape. But the positive thing is that the only way forward is up.Yesterday I met my personal trainer who is going to create my personal program that I'm going to follow. We went through the draft plan, and not just on paper, we really went through it. And I must

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My frustration and annoyance with tabloid-newspapers and other similar trash-newspapers grows by the day. They are filled with non-news that they report in a way that makes them sound like the most important piece of news in the known universe. Like _the_ news for today: "PARIS HILTON in Helsinki!". Is that REALLY interesting piece of news? Is it important? And why is the headline shouting at me?

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Last week the Mrs. and I bought ourselves a new sofa. My old bachelor-era black leather-couch was donated to my in-laws. Today, they delivered the sofa, and me and the father in-law put it together. And now its just sitting in our living-room, looking oh so soft, comfortable and inviting. But we can't sit on it. Since the cushions are not leather, we treated them with this chemical that makes

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The good doctor had this in her blog, so I naturally had to do it as well.What is your occupation? The latest title my boss used to describe me was "IT Support Coordinator"What colour are your socks right now? BlackWhat are you listening to right now? "Iankaikkinen", by KotiteollisuusWhat was the last thing that you ate? A bananaCan you drive a stick shift? It's the only way to driveIf you were a

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Once in a while I run in to weird situation where my past somehow catches up with me. Earlier this year I was contacted in Facebook by this woman from Quebec, who gave me a link and asked "did you write this?". I checked the link, and it contained an idea about certain technology. I wrote it back in 2005.Yesterday, something a bit similar happened. I was reading this article on Ars Technica. From

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Thank you Gary for countless hours of entertainment, and helping me become an OK citizen of this planet. You will be missed.

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Could this be the greatest moment in television-entertainment? It just might be.

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What do you get when you remove Garfield from "Garfield"? A better comic

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A while ago I mentioned that I have bought an iPod touch. Few days ago I realized just how essential piece of equipment that thing is to me.First of all, it's my addressbook. It contains all the contact-information of my friends. True, my phone has that as well, but since the iPod gets synced with my computer, it also contains their email-addresses and their regular address as well. And I can use

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The recent events have been so annoying, that it's time for something a bit more soothing. I took this picture last summer.

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Finland is part of the exclusive club that is being chaired by China. That club is called "Countries that censor the Internet".The thing I have been afraid of and have been warning of happened. A moral panic caused a piece of legislation to be rushed through the parliament and made in to a law. That law is is called "Law of preventive measures to stop the spread of child pornography". In a

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Some time ago Nokia announced that they will be closing the cell-phone factory in Bochum, Germany, and moving the production to their plant in Romania. Lots and lots of Germans got angry (and who can blame them?). And now, the Finnish part of Attac has called for boycott against Nokia.Now, while I understand the annoyance of Germans over the issue, I don't understand the issue Finnish Attac has

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So I have been going through my budget for the year. And I have decided to take aggressive steps in cutting back on debt. I have very little credit-card debt, which is a good thing since that stuff has relatively high interest (somewhat over 10%). So I'm not worried about that. Then I have two large mortages (well, one is largish, the other is smaller) with 25-years repayment-plans. Aggressively

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Why do doors in different countries open in different directions? At least in USA doors open towards the inside, whereas in Finland they open to the outside?Common sense suggests that doors that open outside are a lot harder to kick open, since it would be the frame of the door that absorbs the hit, in addition to any locks and bolts that might be present. Whereas door that open to the inside

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Now, as you may remember, I spent quite some time "talking" about the renovation in our new home. But there were few places that did not need one bit on renovation. One of those places was the sauna. The previous tenants had completely redone the sauna few months earlier, and I must say that they did a good job at it.

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Ticking away the moments that make up a dull dayYou fritter and waste the hours in an offhand wayKicking around on a piece of ground in your home townWaiting for someone or something to show you the wayTired of lying in the sunshineStaying home to watch the rainAnd you are young and life is longAnd there is time to kill todayAnd then one day you findTen years have got behind youNo one told you

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Now, Facebook might be spawn of Satan, but it has just totally redeem itself. Thanks to it, I ran it to this. "Business Time" by "Flight of the Conchords". That has got to be one of the most funny and ingenious performances I have seen in a long time. And imagine my joy when I discovered that YouTube is filled with their acts. Stuff like "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" (Gangsta-folk crossover),

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I like humour. And, if you ask various sources, I like my humour weird. For example, I like off-beat humour like Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal or Fingerpori (sorry, Finnish only). The Mrs. hates them. She finds the jokes "too weird" and characters "horrible".Then, on the opposite side of scales, I also like Jeeves and Wooster. I find the humour intelligent and the English and mannerism

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We (as in Mrs. and me) got out first Christmas-present few days ago. Well, there was no official declaration that it was a christmas-present, but the proximity of the holiday, combined with the decoration of the box it came in made me firmly label it as christmas-present.It was socks for both of us. And not just any socks, wool socks. And not just any wool socks, personally hand-knitted socks

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Japan is again sending their whaling-fleet out to sea. Their goal is to "collect" 950 whales "for scientific purposes". What "science" are they conducting with these animals? Seriously? Does it really demand killing of hundreds of whales every year? I would have guessed that whatever they are researching, they would have figured it out by now...I guess the thing they are researching here is "what

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Few years ago I met a total namesake of mine. He was a telecom-specialist for Sonera (the local operator) who came over to our office to install some hardware. It was an eerie feeling when he introduced himself to me and my coworker.Few minutes ago I received an email to my gmail-account. From myself. It was a test-message with some random letters in it, sort of test-message I would send myself.

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Well, as you may or may not know, there has been a serious case of school-shootout in Finland. There's not much to say about the tragedy itself, since words would be pretty pointless.What I can talk about is the reaction of the media and people to the event. "Disappointed" doesn't even begin to describe my feelings. Where to begin...First of all, media is telling how "we may never know the

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This is for the Finns out there, but it's in English so others can understand my rant as well.I always thought that my language-skills (in Finnish that is) are nothing extraordinary. I do make occasional typo and some other random errors, but usually my text is correct. And, IMO, that should be the default. OK text that is not painful to read. If you can write beautiful text, great! But at least

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The Mrs. finally read my blog (well, not all of it). She had two comments:a) Good lord, our entire lives are in here!b) How do you have the time to write all this?

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I'm having an email-dilemma. My main-address is getting somewhat swamped with spam. So I decided to move to another address. I also have a third address at Gmail. I was quite happy with my decision to switch addresses, but just today I noticed that Gmail is moving to IMAP, and that was one of my primary reasons why I didn't select my gmail as my new email (other being spam. my new address is 100%

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So I was sitting in the commuter-train heading back home after work. I was sitting in a secluded area right at the beginning of the train. Across the aisle were this guy and girl, maybe about 17 years old or so. Suddenly I notice that the girl had a black permanent marker on her hand, and she was drawing on the wall I looked at her for a second, and then this dialogue took place:Me: "Excuse me,

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My gadget-lust got the best of me again. I tried in vain to struggle it, but I had to submit.I bought an iPod touch.Yes, part of me feels bad about it. It keeps on reminding me that "instead of buying that thing, you could have saved that money". And while that is true, fact remains that every time I hold the iPod in my hand, I'm in awe. How did they manage to make something like this? It's so

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I ran a piece of editorial few days ago, that was about "problems with computers". It was basically a story by the editor on how she had problems with her computer and/or internet-connection at home. She mentioned how the manual of her WiFi-router said that "user needs to master his/hers computer and the operating-system that runs on it". Rest of the text was about her struggles to fix the

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udderssalt1 egg1dl breadcrumbsClean the udders and cut them in half. Put them in slightly salted water and boil them until they are soft. Cut the utters in to smaller pieces and brush them with the whipped egg and roll them in breadcrumbs. Fry them in butter or margarine until they are nice and brown all around. Serve hot alongside potatoes and vegetables.

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I don't know about you, but I'm sick and tired of stupidity. It seems that it surrounds us, no matter where we go. Here are few notable things I have encountered recently:SmokingA while ago Finland banned smoking in restaurants and bars (hooray!). Of course the decision was preceded by the typical "if you don't like smoking, stay at home!" and/or "this is a violation of smokers rights!". Now the

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I feel like I'm the "man in the middle" when it comes to the Internet. There are the grandmasters who were online and emailing since the eighties. Then there are the young whippersnappers who have lived and breathed Internet since they were five year old. And then there are people like me. I got online at around 1994 or so. I was about 17 or so.Now, kids (and some other power-users as well) these

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In the end of 2005, at the height of their popularity, Nightwish kicked their iconic lead-singer, Tarja Turunen, from the band. Many people, including me, thought that it would be the end of them. It seemed obvious that the band could not recoved from the ordeal, even though they put on a brave face. They started looking for a new lead-singer, but it seemed like re-arranging deck-chairs on the

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So I was just watching this piece of news about inuits in Alaska. This one village is about to face destruction, since the global warming is melting the ice and raising the ocean, so the village is about to be washed away (literally). Now, as tragic as their story is, I could not help but notice few things:a) Everyone (and I mean everyone) in the village drove around with ATV's. The village had a

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It's done (well, I'm cheating a bit. There's still some minor things left, but they are just that: minor. They will not prevent us from actually living like normal human beings). No more renovation. Yesterday was spent hanging lights to the ceilings and putting together the guest-bed. On Saturday we removed all protective papers and plastics from the furniture and the floors. Our apartment looks

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On wednesday, me, the sister-in-law and my father-in-law put the wallpapers in the guestroom. It only took until 1am. So that room is now finished, just need to move in the furniture. Yesterday me, the Mrs. and father-in-law wallpapered one wall in the livingroom, this time we managed to finish at 00:30am. So at this moment we have one wall in the livingroom, as well as the paintjob in the

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that's how long the our housing cooperatives shareholder-meeting took. And that's pretty long. In our previous cooperative it took maybe two hours, and it was a lot bigger than our current one (24 apartments vs. 6). And this was a second meeting this year, usually there are only one meeting per year. And still they managed to spend that much time on it.The main reason is that the board of

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Yesterday we (as in I and father in-law) painted the livingroom-ceiling. We also installed the light to the kitchen. On Saturday we got the curtains for the bedroom. So we are few steps closer to the finish, again. Although the mother in-law and the wife decided that we need to pain the ceiling in the library as well. So that's a bit more work, but it's one of the easiest task around.Hell, we

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Bedroom is finished. Well, there's still no mattresses or curtains, but there's no more renovating to be done.Guest-bedroom has been painted (ceiling and two walls), we just need the wallpapers for the two remaining walls, which should arrive on monday. When we get this room finished, our library will become order of magnitude more pleasant place, since we are currently using it to store items

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...in the sidebar? Yeah, it's nifty, and I decided to give it a shot. The only problem is that it's not working properly. It's missing half-a-dozen or so individual songs I have bought plus it's missing "Dark Side of The Moon" in the albums-section.

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No, not literally, but that's how I feel. I feel like I have been beaten with sticks for the entire weekend. My every muscle aches.Status-update: About 90% of our belongings have been moved to our new place. All major items and pieces of furniture have been moved, some minor items remain unmoved. Few items (large furniture mostly) are in their final places, rest are waiting for their final

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Last Monday we sold our home. The preceding weekend was spent carrying our belongings out of it (related to this: every time I move, the amount of stuff that needs to be packed up and carried away seems to double). Our belongings are now scattered in cardboard-boxes between my sister in-laws as well as father/mother in-laws place. Few pieces of furniture are in our future home. Some stuff is

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Apple and/or Emi obviously read my blog, since The Dark Side of The Moon re-appeared to iTunes Store. Currently listening to "The Great Gig in The Sky"...

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I occasionally get that "Why are they doing this?"-feeling when dealing with companies. Last month when Apple and Emi announced that they will start selling DRM-free track on iTunes that even have higher quality than DRM'ed songs, I jumped on the opportunity and downloaded "Wish you were here" by Pink Floyd. Whole album (even though price of individual songs was increased somewhat, the price of

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It's interesting to see how same products are marketed in different regions. For example: I have a Canon Eos 400D DSLR-camera. And in Europe (and some other places as well) it's known as Eos 400D. What is it called in USA? It's Canon Digital Rebel XTi. Before 400D we had 350D. In USA it was called Digital Rebel XT.Why do they do that? Obviousy because different people (in this case, Americans vs.

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So Amnesty warns us about censorship in the internet. And while they are telling us that censorship is bad, they are also saying that some censorship is OK. According to Amnesty, it's OK to censor racist websites and the like. So... who exactly decides what is OK to censor and what is not? Governments (like in China)? Corporations? Some organisations (like Amnesty International or.... Aryan

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Apple just released their new MacBook Pro's. And I want one. No, I _desire_ one. I could go for the cheapest of the three models (with increased HD-space), but I'm still researching it. the price-difference between the low-end and middle-model is 400e if they both have similar hard-drives. For that money I would get 200MHz more CPU-speed and twice as much VRAM. I'm not sure that is it worth it,

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I admit it: I'm a technology-whore. I love gizmos and gadgets. I love all kinds of cool new stuff. And knowing all that, it's even more astonishing that I have been this patient with the current gizmos I have.First of all, my computer is a Mac Mini. When I bought this computer over two years ago, it was the cheapest and slowest Mac available (not including used hardware). And it has served me

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I finally watched "Children of Men" last weekend. I actually missed in when it was playing in the theaters (or they never showed it here at all), so I took a calculated risk and bought the DVD when I saw it for sale. And I wasn't disappointed.It's a good sign when you read the comments in IMDB, and you have bunch of people telling how the movie is "racist", while you also have a bunch of people

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I hate fashion. The more I think about it, the more I realize it goes against everything I believe in. What do I believe in? Well, among other things, I believe in personal liberties and freedoms. What does that have to do with fashion? Quite a bit as it turns out.What annoys me is the way this whole fashion-thingy works out. Basically, there are bunch of people who decide what is fashionable and

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That's the new lowest temperature I have experienced so far, and I guess it's pretty safe to say that I wont experience anything colder, ever. -110c is almost twice as cold as it is in the South Pole in the winter.Me and the Mrs. spent some time in the Haikko Manor. Besides manor, they also have a spa. And in addition to the normal activities you can have in a spa, they have what they call "Super

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There seems to be a conspiracy against me. Every time it seems that I could save some extra money, "something" happens. For the last few months I had been paying back my credit-card bill, few hundred euros a month.No, I'm not a big credit-spender, I usually just the credit-card for online-shopping and to even out some bigger purchases I make. So last month I decided torepay all of the credit back

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I realized something a while ago... I realized that I hate Dan Brown. No, I don't hate him personally, I just hate his books. Well, with all due honesty, I have only read "The Da Vinci Code", and even that, only halfway through. But as I read the book, there was something in the book that kept bugging me. I still don't know what it was actually, but it was there. Maybe it was the time wasted

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I went to see "300" yesterday. And I don't think I have ever seen a movie that is so full of macho-bullshit (Dirty Harry might come close), muscular men (Conan might come close), spraying blood (Ummmm.... Kill Bill is a contender here), people getting killed (there are a number of movies that compete in sheer volume of corpses, but I'm not going to start going through them here) and general

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Well, it's two days after, but still.So, what changed? Well, all in all I can be pretty happy with the results. My candidate got through, and Greens managed to get one more seat in the Parliament (15 seats). The Coalition (the mainstream right-wing party, they have been in the opposition recently) got a whopping 10 extra seats. Which is good, since I considered voting for them ;).Social-Democrats

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...what do they have in common? Both are happening in Finland.That's right, I saw some space-debris falling from the sky! I was just stepping out of a bus, when I saw something in the sky. Thinking it was just a passenger-jet (which are numerous around here), I didn't think much of it. But when I saw it, I instantly thought "If that's an airliner, it has disintegrated mid-flight". It looked like

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