Life for Finnish student's killer
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Life sentence for DIY row killer
Life sentence for DIY row killer
04/30/2004 10:29 AMA man is jailed for 10 years for stabbing his neighbour to death in a
row over noise from DIY.
Blowtorch killer jailed for life
Blowtorch killer jailed for life
02/19/2004 06:17 PMA man is jailed for torturing his girlfriend with a blowtorch and
pliers, before throwing her to the ground and killing her.
Schoolboy killer gets life term
Schoolboy killer gets life term
07/27/2004 05:59 AMA 16-year-old Lincolnshire schoolboy who murdered fellow pupil Luke
Walmsley is detained for life.
Life term for killer babysitter
Life term for killer babysitter
04/11/2005 08:44 AMA babysitter is jailed for life for the murder of a Teesside toddler,
after banging his head on a wooden banister.
Killer Kangaroos! No comment from the
Killer Rabbit
Killer Kangaroos! No comment from the
Killer Rabbit
07/09/2004 03:03 AMmake sure you pack an extra boomerang .. quite
aggressive
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Man tried for UK student's murder
Man tried for UK student's murder
09/26/2004 11:23 PMThe trial of a man accused of murdering York backpacker Caroline
Stuttle begins in Australia.
Killer Mobiles for Killer Apps
Killer Mobiles for Killer Apps
02/01/2005 08:35 PM
Continuing my series on mobile platforms, I now think killer mobile
apps need mobile
devices designed like game consoles, meaning that it has one
or two slots
for application cartridges. Each cartridge contains one or
more applications.
Cellphones would come with a built-in cartridge containing the
phone app as well as
others.
Adding a cartridge adds new apps. Applications have two
modes: running and stopped.
The Next-App
button (aka
Appy button) activates (brings to front) each running apps in
turn. Some apps
can activate itself when an event fires (phone call
received). To see the list
of available apps, keep the Next-App button pressed for a second.
Eventually, app cartridges will be advance to become platform
cartridges, taking over
the full functionality of the mobile device to offer better
application platform services
than the one that came with the device (i.e. easy to use app
download service that auto-configures
apps for your device). If you don't like the built-in
calender, just stop it
and run a third-party calendar instead.
A student's scarlet letter
A student's scarlet letter
06/22/2004 01:17 AMA student at at a Japanese high school dozed off in class last week.
As punishment, his teacher made him write an apology letter.... in his
own blood. Later, the teacher confessed to the principal. It gets even
stranger. According to the principal, quoted in this Reuters article,
the other faculty in the room didn't notice when the boy was handed a
box cutter. Apparently, they didn't see him cut his own finger open
and start writing either. Even more suspicious is that the teacher
will be back at work in a few days and neither the boy nor his parents
has asked for a transfer into a different class.
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Student's murder - man charged
Student's murder - man charged
04/17/2005 09:47 PMA 29-year-old man is charged with the murder of a 16-year-old girl
found stabbed to death in Hartlepool.
1,000 Gather for Slain Student's Funeral
(AP)
1,000 Gather for Slain Student's Funeral
(AP)
04/24/2004 07:59 PMAP - More than 1,000 mourners packed a resort lodge and overflowed
from two tents for the funeral of slain University of North Dakota
student Dru Sjodin, who was remembered for her generous heart and
infectious spirit.
Photography student's odd run-in with
Homeland Security
Photography student's odd run-in with
Homeland Security
07/08/2004 12:37 AMSeattle-based blogger and photogger Ian Spiers says:
About a month ago I had a little run-in with 3 Homeland Security
agents, 3 Seattle Police officers, 2 security guards and a German
Shepherd while I was at a local park with my camera. The DHS agent
told me that it's illegal for me to take pictures of federal property.
The ACLU of Washington disagrees. My blog is my attempt to chronicle
this outragous situation and bring some common sense and public
awareness to it.
LinkTeacher Lops Off Chunk of Student's Ear
(AP)
Teacher Lops Off Chunk of Student's Ear
(AP)
09/02/2004 04:07 PMAP - A teacher enforcing school regulations on haircuts snipped one
girl's locks to ear's length Thursday but ended up lopping off a chunk
of her ear as well, police said.
Student's Jeep Stolen Twice in Three
Days (AP)
Student's Jeep Stolen Twice in Three
Days (AP)
01/27/2004 07:35 PMAP - A Tulane University student's sport utility vehicle was stolen
twice in three days, once while she waited for police officers to
arrive so she could fill out a report.
Student's cellphone confiscated at
school
Student's cellphone confiscated at
school
05/05/2004 01:07 AMMy 14 year old daughter now has a security cell phone. It's one that I
can restrict where and who...
No Verdict in Student's Internet
Terrorism Case
No Verdict in Student's Internet
Terrorism Case
06/03/2004 03:26 AMLos Angeles Times Jun 3 2004 7:54AM GMT
Student's web fraud nets house arrest
Student's web fraud nets house arrest
10/31/2003 01:56 PMCanadian Press via Canada.com Oct 31 2003 12:22PM ET
Missing N.D. Student's Body Found in
Minn. (AP)
Missing N.D. Student's Body Found in
Minn. (AP)
04/17/2004 08:32 PMAP - The body of University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin was
found Saturday, revealed by the spring thaw in an area volunteers had
searched several times during the five months she had been missing,
searchers said Saturday.
CNN.com - Police: Missing student's body
found - Apr 17, 2004
CNN.com - Police: Missing student's body
found - Apr 17, 2004
04/18/2004 08:22 AMMissing student Dru Sjodin's body found .. first thing I noticed ..
Too. sad
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Missing North Dakota Student's Body
Found (AP)
Missing North Dakota Student's Body
Found (AP)
04/17/2004 02:03 PMAP - The body of college student Dru Sjodin has been found, five
months after she disappeared from the parking lot of a North Dakota
shopping mall, authorities said Saturday. Sheriff Mark LeTexier sobbed
as he told volunteers, "Dru is home." He later confirmed that
authorities had found Sjodin's body.
School Officials Accused Of Violations
In Using Student's Mobile Phone
School Officials Accused Of Violations
In Using Student's Mobile Phone
05/03/2004 04:44 PMThe question of mobile phones in schools has come up many times - and
the general opinion towards them seems to change with the times. It
used to be that they were banned, but following Columbine and
September 11, many schools changed their minds, realizing that phones
serve a safety purpose as well. More recently, schools are banning
them again as they fear the overhyped potential of camera phones to
cause problems. No matter what, though, schools most schools are
pretty strict in saying phones should not be used in class (for
obvious reasons). Thus, it's not news worthy to hear of a mobile
phone being confiscated from a high school student by a teacher and a
a school administrator. However, for them to then take that phone,
check its text messages and voicemails,
call other students in the addressbook and send out deceptive text
messages seems to go well beyond what should legally be allowed.
The teacher and the assistant principal involved claimed that they
believed the student was involved with drug dealing after reading a
text message from his girlfriend asking for a tampon (which they claim
is common drug slang). Of course, that means they read the text
message before they suspected him of any drug dealing activities.
Furthermore, to then call other students and demand they come down to
the office, as well as sending deceptive text messages to others seems
to go well beyond what is acceptable practice in confiscating a phone.
The family of the student is now considering taking the case to
court, while the school district is still trying to defend their
actions. The article linked here has quite a few details behind the
case, so it's definitely worth reading.
Finnish Fun
Finnish Fun
05/19/2004 01:13 PMSorry, Finns only:
Heli kirjoitti pienen mukavan tarinan uljaas
ta prinssistä, joka uponnee jokaiseen naiseen, joka on ikinä
seurustellut nörtin kanssa. On suorastaan pelottavaa tunnistaa
itsensä. (Ei se komeuskohta. Mutta se muu...)
Kiitos! :-D
In Finnish, for a change.
In Finnish, for a change.
09/01/2004 03:46 PMSain tänään ihanan sähköpostin, joka sanoi kaiken oleellisen:
Sinä puuhaat keittiössä. Laitat paikkoja kuntoon.
Minä kuuntelen sitä, rakastan sinua
ja kaikki on sitä myöten selvää.
- Pentti Saarikoski -
(<idlewonder>Lieneekö yhden runon lainaaminen
tekijänoikeusrikkomus? Sehän on itsenäinen teos, ja pikkaisesta
runosta on aika vaikea lainata pelkkää osaa tekijänoikeuslain
22§:n tarkoittamalla tavalla. Hum.</idlewonder>)
"review (in Finnish)"
"review (in Finnish)"
07/05/2004 09:37 AMFinnish Thanksgiving
Finnish Thanksgiving
12/19/2004 02:59 PM
« The bas-relief on this slab of dark granite becomes a cool bit
of snowy art. A Thanksgiving day postprandial gallery of pictures from a
November Snow to gape at in a turkey induced coma. »
Thanksgiving, a treasured holiday that involves lots of food, family
and no religious obligations. A day that likely makes all the
surviving Native Americans wonder what in the hell the Wampanoag tribe
was thinking when they helped those prissy pilgrims survive the first
few winters instead of taking care of the problem early. So much
romanticism is imbued in the whole idea of Thanksgiving that even
Plymouth Rock is a major tourist attraction which, I can tell you from
personal experience, is the saddest bit of rock anyone might waste
their time travelling down two hours from Boston to gape at.
In the annual fit of family and patriotic turkey eating frenzy, the
Pilgrims were, in fact, immigrants celebrating the fact that they
managed to survive a year or two in their new homeland, one that they
either chose to or were forced to move to. Not that everyone shouldn't
have something to reflect happily upon in the previous 365 days, but
people who move to an alien land have a completely different need to
do so since, like with the Pilgrims, there are lots of days where the
misery you knew back home seems a lot more comfortable than the misery
you are just beginning to make friends with. Simple things you once
took for granted are a new challenge and few things come easily.
I didn't go home this year, much as I wanted to, but we had a
'Finnish Thanksgiving' dinner of turkey meatballs, mashed potatoes
with aura cheese and garlic, and lingonberry sauce. It wasn't the same
as a full spread of turkey, stuffing, giblet gravy, yams, cranberry
relish, pumpkin pie, and piles of other food you try to cram in before
you feel so full that you feel sick, but it was good. I don't feel
much like a pilgrim but, like them, I've managed to survive so far and
that's something worth treating yourself to a big meal that would drop
a moose in 50 paces. Of course, this year I have something to be quite
thankful for and that is, after much waiting and hoping, I finally got
a job. Not only a job, but a job at the one place I wanted to work for
above all the others. :) I'm happy, too, that I'll be working
somewhere that I'll be, I think, the only native English speaker and
where the operating language is Finnish and I will have no choice but
to finally start speaking a bit more Finnish. I hope I survive the
awkward stage. Getting back into a regular workday routine is going to
feel really strange for a week or three I think. :)
Also, this week's paper had a story about Korttelit.fi, a pictorial map of
every building in downtown Helsinki. The interface is very nicely done
and the pictures are good as well. It's not finished as the person who
created it is doing it himself, but I suspect there will be some
commercial interest in it to make it worth his while.
Finnish CC Licence
Finnish CC Licence
05/27/2004 11:05 AMFinland is the third country after the US and Japan to go ahead with
their fully-fledged CC licences. After several months of legal
deliberation the Finnish project lead Herkko Hietanen felt able to
clear the licence draft and present it to the Finnish public last
Monday, thus marking a major milestone in the development of iCommons.
The Finns are widely seen as one of the technologically most advanced
countries in Europe.
Low stakes Finnish Hold 'Em
Low stakes Finnish Hold 'Em
03/31/2005 07:24 PMAfter sitting down to dinner at Moustache in
the East Village, a bunch of us pulled out our phones, which activity
I've noticed is some kind of nerd group tic. Several at the table had
the Nokia
7610 and we were still futzing with them when the waiter came up
to take our order. When he saw the phone, his eyes went wide. "What
phone is this? You all have the same one? What is this phone and where
did you get them?"
We told him a little about the phone and he seemed impressed.
Smirking a little, he set down his order pad and reached into his
pocket. "Here is my phone," he said as he placed a recently-released
uber-thin M
otorola RAZR down on the table, stepped back, and crossed his arms
proudly. We all pulled back slightly from the table, silent for a
moment, and then leaned in to get a closer look with a collective
"oooooh...." The waiter beamed, happy at besting a bunch of geeks at a
hand of cell phone poker.
Finnish bl0ggers awarded
Finnish bl0ggers awarded
03/31/2005 06:54 AMFrom
Yle
24:
Prestigious state awards for disseminating information went this year
to eight persons or groups. Among the recipients was an diving
instructors' Internet site. After the tsunami hit in December, they
published badly-needed information about Finns caught up in the
disaster.
The award went to sukellus.fi, with Alex Nieminen,
Petri Ahoniemi, Janne Miikkulainen, Matti Anttila, Sami Köykkä, Mimmu Pekkanen, and
Kalle Valkama for "fast and professional internet information
dissemination during a crisis".
(A timeline of the events in English can be found here.)
Congrats to all! Good work, and rightfully awarded!
Stupid Finnish poetry
Stupid Finnish poetry
03/06/2004 02:03 AM
Teekkarin pääsiäinen:
tuokkonen oikealla
läppäri vasemmalla
Ilo on joskus
yksinkertaista
Apologies to my foreign readers. It would be worse in English,
trust me :-). I just had to put this one in the form of a tanka poem.
I have no explanation.
Cory's DRM talk in Finnish
Cory's DRM talk in Finnish
08/31/2004 11:39 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Herkko Hietanen, Tero Tilus, Antti Vähä-Sipilä and
Kuisma Lappalainen from EF Finland have translated my
Microsoft DRM talk into
Finnish, bringing the total number of translations up to 10 (with two
more that I know of underway). Freaking cool.
Link
Finnish Blog Awards
Finnish Blog Awards
02/10/2004 02:55 AMJaakko of Fabula
suggests that there should be Finnish blog
awards. This is a very, very dumb idea that is certain to cause a
lot of grief, tears and hate across the Finnish blogosphere, and
whoever does it will completely lose all respect and will be spit upon
on the streets.
How could I not do this?
Apologizes to all English readers - here's the official announcement:
Kultainen Kuukkeli 2003 - palkinto tullaan jakamaan
useammassa blogikategoriassa, ml. paras suomalainen blogi. Lisäinfoa
on sivulla Kultainen Kuukkeli 2003.
Ehdotuksia kategorioista voi joko lähettää meilitse tai
jättämällä kommenti tähän merkintään.
Mikäli joku haluaa sponsoroida palkintoja, ole hyvä ja ilmoita
itsestäsi ylläolevin keinoin.
Obscure Finnish joke
Obscure Finnish joke
02/01/2005 09:48 PM
Siinä tulevaisuus. :D
Finnish WISPs Roam
Finnish WISPs Roam
11/11/2003 12:59 PMFrom the beautifully named city of Espoo, Finland, comes the news that
seven Finnish WISPs are roaming freely across their networks starting
in 2004: The networks include the cities of Hamina (operated by
Haminan Energia), Lahti (Suomen 4G), Mäntsälä
(Mäntsälän Sähkö), Porvoo (Porvoon Energia),
Rauma (Rauman Energia), Vaasa and the Leppävaara area in Espoo
(Netsafir) as well as Vantaa (Vantaan Energia). Radionet is providing
the roaming technology. Interestingly, TeliaSonera HomeRun, the
largest trans-Scandinavian WISP, isn't part of this deal. HomeRun has
extensive roaming agreements across Europe and elsewhere that require
fees for their users when outside of the HomeRun network, but retain
the single login, single bill convenience....
Finnish chainsaw politics
Finnish chainsaw politics
04/19/2005 04:27 AMI have to say that any sort of compassion I felt towards the
Metsähallitus
folks is rapidly waning after seeing the infantile scare tactics
they've been using with
Greenpeace. Look at
these videos and
pictures (in English)! Revving chainsaws in the middle of
the night, keeping people awake with sirens, hanging nooses from the
trees, burning crosses... Sheesh!
The issue is complicated, as always, but Metsähallitus is really
trying to make it simple: you can either scorn or hate them for being
such jerks and allowing such idiotic things to happen - in their name,
by their employees, nonetheless. One would imagine that grown people
would have enough sense to sit down and negotiate, but this? It also
casts a bad light on the Center Party, currently holding the seat of
the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry.
Things like these tend to develop into a public relations fight.
Greenpeace has been talking to buyers of Finnish paper, and quite a few
authors and paper companies have already started to question the
ethics of logging.
Metsähallitus is definitely not doing a good job on the PR front.
(Disclaimer: I support Greenpeace financially, though I am not a
member. I also own some forest, so I support forestry. I don't think
these are irreconcilably at odds, though...)
W3C Launches Finnish Office
W3C Launches Finnish Office
10/10/2002 09:57 AM10 October 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the W3C
Finnish Office (in Finnish) based at the Digital Media Institute of
the Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland. The opening
ceremonies are 11 October, and are open to the public (free
registration required). Read the press release and more about W3C
Offices. (News archive)
Finnish Parliamentary Elections
Finnish Parliamentary Elections
03/15/2003 08:55 PM Finnish Parliamentary
Elections are held this sunday.
Deutsche Welle and
NY
Times sum things up pretty well, but I've added some links you
might find interesting. [more inside]
Almost a Finnish knit bl0g
Almost a Finnish knit bl0g
06/06/2005 12:11 AMBlogitutkimus has
somet
hing that looks like an beginner knitter could come up with: an
incomprehensible mess of strings.
However, since this is a blog dedicated to blog research, it's
actually a map of the Finnish blogrolls - i.e. who endorses whom in
their sidebars. The reason why I'm in the middle with the most links
is not because I'm part of a mythical Bloggers Inner Circle [BTW,
meeting at eleven at the Usual Place. Bring your capes. And a frog.],
but likely because I happen to have my entire up-to-date
subscription list available automatically, whereas most others seem to
maintain their "recommended reading list" manually. Or
that's my guess.
It's a fun pic. You can find all sorts of interesting data in it,
and support almost any opinion you can think of. It'll be interesting
to see what Jere can dig out of it :)
(I'm reading too many blogs anyway. I should probably start
dropping the ones I don't read so regularly anymore...)
Net Addiction Gets Finnish Soldiers Out
Of Army
Net Addiction Gets Finnish Soldiers Out
Of Army
08/04/2004 01:23 AMFinnish army 'drops web addicts'
Finnish army 'drops web addicts'
08/04/2004 08:53 PMA number of Finnish recruits have had their military service slashed
due to internet addiction, the army says.
Keeping up with Finnish or Buffer
Overflow
Keeping up with Finnish or Buffer
Overflow
12/19/2004 02:59 PM
« Sticker art girl with a long neck. »
I managed to survive the first week at work. There is always a period
of feeling awkward and exposed when you first start working somewhere
as you get to know the people you work with and find your way into the
daily routine. The work is very familiar even though I'm a bit rusty
in places and there are products in use that I've not worked with
before. I have some large datacenter experience that might be helpful
as well. The most challenging part of the job is, and will likely
continue to be for a while, keeping up with conversations and meetings
in Finnish. I understand quite a lot, but I have to concentrate on
everything that is said. My vocabulary isn't all that great, but even
if I only get half the words, context will usually help me figure out
the rest. It's like working a cryptogram in real-time. My coworkers
have been very nice in speaking Finnish to me even though I'm sure
they find my replying in English somewhat annoying and, hopefully,
I'll get over my self-consciousness about speaking Finnish sometime
soon. Most of the people speak English very well which makes it too
easy at times to be lazy. I keep hoping I have a Thirteenth
Warrior experience and just start speaking it at some point and
quip "I listened" when asked how I learned it. One person has such a
perfect American accent that had he not said he was Finnish, I would
have pegged him as being from somewhere in the Midwest. I hate that
when people who aren't from the US have a better American accent than
I do. :)
The atmosphere of the office reminds me so much of WU and BBN that I
feel pretty much at home already. Everyone is some sort of academic
who found their way into computing. I had to stand up and introduce
myself at a meeting on my first day where I was told I had to describe
my hobbies lest I be asked about them repeatedly. It seemed a little
odd until I started to figure out that people really do value their
hobbies and are interested in yours as well. I was really excited to
meet a coworker who is involved with a student photography club and
lab since I didn't want to build my own darkroom with an enlarger or
buy one of the new photo printers since they generally suck at B&W
printing. I'm also going to try and play sähly, Finnish floorball,
with the company team once a week. I'd better look up the word for
"incoming!" before hitting the arena. :)
Perhaps one of the most obvious differences between working in the US
and here is the general approach to the amount of time you spend in
the office. At BBN, 80 hours wasn't an unusual week and if you were on
call, 100 or more. Here, people go home at a reasonable hour and I've
yet to notice anyone sleeping under their desk. You're even expected
to take your holiday time. What a novel concept! I had 5 or 6 weeks of
holiday time per year when I left WU, but I never really had the
chance to take it so that I had a giant check for 16 weeks of accrued
holiday time along with my last paycheck. Holiday time works a little
different here as you accrue time much like you do in the US, but you
need 6 days of holiday time to take a week off from work. I am told
this is a vestige from the 60s or thereabouts when the workweek was 6
days rather than 5. The employee manual also had some interesting
holiday tidbits such as a day per annum for moving house and if your
50th or 60th birthday falls on a weekday you get the day off. I have a
few years to go before that happens. :)
And, the breeders have supplied us with 2 more pictures of puppy
cuteness. :)
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