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Asuinalueesta
Tajusin aikaisemmin päivällä, että maksoin noin 20000 siitä, että pääsin asumaan alueelle, jonka sosioekonoominen status on väärä. Kärjistetysti valitsin lapsiperheet sosiaalitapausten sijaan. Olarissa asuu varakkaampaa porukkaa kuin Matinkylässä. Itseasiassa löytämäni tilaston mukaan Olarin asukkaiden tulotaso on Espoon keskiarvon yläpuolella ja ( Read more... ) -
My Live Reporting on Hugos on IRC.
Saving this for future ( Read more... ) -
Realizations of Truths
I have a text file that contains a bunch of quotes collected from Internet. I have used Message-IDs as universal identifier on many of them. This, however, doesn't seem to be as useful as I thought. -
iPhone is not a platform or platform is a vendor thing
Tim Bray recommended Confused of Calcutta blog and especially The Customer is the Scarcity post. I also read The Death of the Download. (I wonder if LiveJournal/XJournal automagically turns URLs into links. That would mean that simplest way to refer blog posts wowuld be URLs.) Reading the question "What If Microsoft Had to Approve Every App on ( Read more... ) -
The Trouble with the Segway
Paul Graham has written an article with the title above: http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html. More appropriate title would be "A Trouble with the Segway". (Another trouble with the Segway is that it can be spelled Segay or Sewgay. As I noticed while writing this post.)
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Kävelyä muistojen kujalla
Vuosituhannen vaihteessa kirjoittelin melko aktiivisesti suomalaisiin usenet -uutisryhmiin. Erityisesti yksi kirjoitus oli jäänyt mieleen, joten päätin kaivella josko Google olisi arkistoinut sen. Olen etsiskellyt kyseistä viestiä aikaisemminkin heikolla menestyksellä, mutta nyt ajattelin käydä läpi kaikki Googlesta löytyvät kirjoitukseni läpi. ( Read more... ) -
Wittertainment Adventure IV: Voyage Home
I finished writing previous installment of our apparently 4 part story in Diners Club lounge at Edinburgh airport. Now I'm starting the last part at Diners Club lounge at Heathrow terminal 3. Last leg of my journey is beginning. (Or second to last, if you count taxi home ( Read more... ) -
Wittertainment Adventure, part III: The Long Walk
Saturday was reserved for a tour in the City. At the breakfast I found out that you could have haggis, but ordered eggs and tomato instead. Then I started my day as a tourist in Edinburgh. My plan was simple. Go to the Scottish Parliament. Then walk to the castle passing Royal Mile. From the castle I'd walk to Lothian Road and have sushi for lunch ( Read more... ) -
Wittertainment Adventure, part II
Last time we saw our intrepid traveller, he was at the right place waiting for the queue. Well, now he is in his hotel room after mildly interesting afternoon of wittertainment. Sorry about the spoilers ( Read more... ) -
Wittertainment Adventure, part I
You have no idea what I have gone through to get here ( Read more... )