Panel in Helsinki June 10
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See you later Helsinki
See you later Helsinki
06/17/2004 12:10 AMSee you later Helsinki and thanks for the reindeer and the
midsummer nights.
On my way back to Japan. Looking forward to being home for a few
weeks...
Off to Helsinki
Off to Helsinki
01/17/2004 10:43 PMI'm at Narita airport about to leave for Helsinki. Hawaii -> Tokyo
-> Helsinki is really traveling in the wrong direction. I'll see you
all on the other side...
Speechless in Helsinki
Speechless in Helsinki
03/14/2005 06:21 PMI heard some hours ago that a friend had died in a traffic accident
far away. I... I don't quite know what to write. It's a shock you
can't quite comprehend. A numbness. A strangely odd sensation, when
you don't quite know what to do and how you should feel.
She saw things most people just dream about. She survived things
most people only see nightmares about. She did things most people
would not dare, or if they did, they would be enough for a lifetime,
yet still kept her smile and kept going. She lived fiercely, more
fiercely than anyone else I know, even if she didn't always know where
to belong. And I and many others loved her for the spark of life
which she always brought with her.
I was always looking forward to meeting her, to hear her stories.
And I hoped that some day I could take my children to her and hear her
recount her tales of wonder and see the things she brought and made
(for she had the knack of creativity within her). I was so envious
for her courage that I could only admire from a distance.
Good night, and good bye. You won't be forgotten.
(A traffic accident? Sheesh. How not like her.)
Helsinki Dog Parks
Helsinki Dog Parks
01/02/2004 06:16 PM
Dog park activists in the US would salivate over the number of dog
parks in Helsinki. When I was looking for papers on the import of HB
last December, I saw a list of parks, but with little other
information about them, at least not in English. It has been a long
year and I've had to figure out much on my own. In August, I decided
that as a project I would go around to all the dog parks in downtown,
photograph and take notes on them, and put the information together in
a sort of dog park guide. I also had Jarkko do the rough translation
of the dog owner guide Helsinki has available but not in English. I
scanned the illustrated pages in and polished the English up a bit.
The guide is small, but contains a bit of useful information for dog
owners.
Both of these are available in .pdf format and, if you live in
Helsinki or are planning on moving here with a dog, I'd really like
feedback as well as any other information you might like to see added.
The dog park guide is still being fussed over so comments are very
welcome. The email address is in the document. I also put some of the
unused pictures up in a photo gallery which some may enjoy.
A Helsinki All Hallow's
A Helsinki All Hallow's
11/02/2003 11:58 AM Photos of All Hallow's in Hietaniemi Cemetery I missed the usual
pumpkin carving, drunken costume party and annual halloween...
Helsinki Moments
Helsinki Moments
08/18/2004 07:02 PM
« A cute kid at Linnanmäki who wasn't so thrilled to watch the
Olympic Torch being carried past him. Perhaps if the torch were made
of ice cream.... »
Last year there was a story about Eeva and Simo Rista, a couple of
amateur photographers, who gave a lifetime
of photographs to be digitized and shared with the public. The
other day we were walking past Lasipalatsi where I noticed a few
random pictures in the window and it turns out that Lasipalatsi has
started to accept pictures from other people who wish to submit their
photos for the collection/archive. The show, Mo
ments in Helsinki is free and open from 12-6p Tuesday through
Sunday through the month of August. There are some really great photos
and, aside from the Rista's photos, I particularly like the photos of
Tapio Mäkiö as his 300 pictures tell a story and he has a good eye.
The photo Life returns to normal after the chaos of moving
taken in February 1966 is a lovely vignette. There are 10,000 or so
more to browse through online (only a tiny fraction of which have been
printed for the gallery) which is a really interesting view into life
in Finland in photographs taken not by photojournalists but everyday
people.
And, note to self...when heading out into the bush in Finland to
photograph things that glow in the dark during the warmer months,
remember to take a giant stick of bug-off, a can of raid spray, a
mosquito net, a citronella candle (or 5), and an extra pint of blood.
Damn, I can't wait for the -20C weather with dry wind and snow since
at least with frostbite there are no bloodsucking evil vampires on
gossamer wings involved. Of course, when it took nearly 2 hours for me
to get all the feeling in my fingers back after photographings the
Kide in -20C weather I was thinking how wonderful summertime would be.
:)
Vernal Helsinki
Vernal Helsinki
03/24/2005 11:50 AM
« Ice blocks emerging from downspouts and thick muddy grit on
the sidewalks are the two most reliable indicators of the arrival of
spring in Helsinki. »
Spring must be here as I walked around without my winter boots today.
It always feels wrong, after dragging heavy boots around on my feet
for six months or more, to replace them with light, normal shoes. I
must walk a bit funny, too. Of course, my black pants are now brown
and the shoes are slopped with muddy grit, but it's bearable knowing
that summer is coming.
Helsinki Card Game
Helsinki Card Game
12/02/2003 01:27 AM On Friday I stopped in one of the shops on Bulevardi I pass every day
but never enter. I...
Creative Commons presentation in
Helsinki on May 24
Creative Commons presentation in
Helsinki on May 24
05/21/2004 11:24 PMLawrence Lessig will be giving
a public Creative
Commons presentation in Helsinki. It will be at Korjaamo organized by Aula. It will from 5:30PM on May 24.
It's open to the public and will be in English. Details
are on the Aula web page. I'm leaving for Helsinki tomorrow and
will be there.
Video of Lessig Free Culture speech in
Helsinki
Video of Lessig Free Culture speech in
Helsinki
07/27/2004 02:35 PM
There a small, but well produced mp4 video of Lessig's speech about Free Culture and
the Creative Commons that he gave when he was in Helsinki
this May.
Thanks to Jyri at
Aula for the link and for organizing the event.
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Tim Berners-Lee Receives Millennium
Technology Prize in Helsinki
Tim Berners-Lee Receives Millennium
Technology Prize in Helsinki
06/14/2004 11:17 AM2004-06-14: W3C is pleased to announce that on 15 June in Helsinki,
Ms. Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland, will present
the first Millennium Technology Prize to W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee.
The award is given in one of four disciplines for "outstanding
technological achievements that directly promote people's quality of
life, are based on humane values, and encourage sustainable economic
development." The ceremonies are held in conjunction with the
Millennium Technology Conference (Programme PDF 1.5MB) in Espoo,
Finland on 13-16 June. (Photo: Sam Ogden. News archive)
Recent Forum Discussions (June 13 - June
19, 2005)
Recent Forum Discussions (June 13 - June
19, 2005)
06/22/2005 02:40 AMThe MacMerc Forums are an excellent
place to ask questions about something you're trying to do with your
Mac or post
comments about the news floating around the Mac web. Here are a few
threads that...
[~ This is just a sample, visit MacMerc.com for the full story! ~]
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: June 06, 2004 - June 12, 2004
Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: June 06, 2004 - June 12, 2004
Archives
06/07/2004 05:12 PMTalking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: June 06, 2004 - June
12, 2004 Archives .. something big that Kevin didn't see .. Josh
Marshall has more ..
TPM
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: June 20, 2004 - June 26, 2004
Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: June 20, 2004 - June 26, 2004
Archives
06/22/2004 04:37 AMAckerman reports that the anonymous intelligence agent doesn't think
we can win a battle of ideas in the Muslim countries .. Here's a
depressing article .. bloody-handed fantasist ..
Click
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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: June 13, 2004 - June 19, 2004
Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: June 13, 2004 - June 19, 2004
Archives
06/17/2004 04:37 PMBush seeking political favors from the Vatican .. Josh at Talking
Points Memo .. No, you can
not
talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_06_13.php#003065
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GeorgeWBush.com :: Official Blog :: June
20, 2004 - June 26, 2004 Archive
GeorgeWBush.com :: Official Blog :: June
20, 2004 - June 26, 2004 Archive
06/25/2004 10:19 AMBush Campaign Web Ad: Kerry's Coalition Of The Wild-Eyed (Excellent)
.. left is going bonkers .. Calm
Optimism
georgewbush.com/blog/archives/week_2004_06_20.html#001194track
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Comic Creativity: Panel to Panel
Comic Creativity: Panel to Panel
04/30/2004 07:16 PMThis September will see the release of a new book celebrating over a
decade of Dark Horse comic illustrations. Featuring art by Dave
Dorman, Hugh Fleming, Cam Kennedy, Tsuneo Sanda, and many more, this
192-page 9" x 12" paperback wil provide proof positive that
panel-based art
can stand the test of time. It is scheduled for
release on September 29, 2004. You can read all about it at
StarW
ars.com.
Matthew Yglesias: June 20, 2004 - June
26, 2004 Archives
Matthew Yglesias: June 20, 2004 - June
26, 2004 Archives
06/23/2004 07:43 AMMatthew Yglesias' mom passed on today at age 53 .. who lost his mother
today ..
died
matthewyglesias.com/archives/week_2004_06_20.html#003606
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Some Like It Hot in June
Some Like It Hot in June
07/08/2004 03:23 PMHow did several women's apparel retailers fare during a fickle month
for retail?
What should I do between June 4 and June
10?
What should I do between June 4 and June
10?
05/19/2004 06:03 PMAs you can see, I have to be in Naples on June 4 and Helsinki on
June 10. It's kind of a waste to fly back to Japan and turn around and
fly back to Europe again. Is there anything interesting going on, or
can we make something interesting happen in Europe between June 4 and
June 10? I've started a wiki
page to think about what to do between the 4th and the 10th. If
you have any ideas, let me know. Thanks!
June 23, 2005
June 23, 2005
06/24/2005 03:18 PM
The Best Software Writing I is #1 in
computer books on Amazon!
The publisher told me they sold out of the first printing in three
days. Apparently it is completely whuping "PMP Exam Prep (4th
Edition)", which is number 2. They probably didn't think to put Leon Bambrick's drawing
of a cow in their book.
Her
Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on Sony UI
design: "I have a lot of trouble with your
remote controls. Too many arrows." Me too.
Sunbeams, June 10
Sunbeams, June 10
06/10/2004 01:14 PMI’ve subscribed the aggregated feed over at
Planet Sun, mostly in curiosity at
how this experiment turns out. Since we’re now somewhere around 300
contributors and growing fast, I won’t be able to keep up down the
road; but at the moment I do see a lot of interesting stuff go by, and
what I’ll do is aggregate the bits that catch my eye every little
while here under the label
Sunbeams. Today’s take includes
Moazam Raja on
Omniscient Debugging (I’ve subscribed
to Moazam separately, he’s essential), Hung-Sheng Tsao on
all sorts of geeky
sysadmin stuff, Frank Lagorio’s
scorching smackdown of marketing in
Sarbanes-Oxley space, Ron Ten-Hove on
JBI (the programmer’s-eye view into Web Services),
Josh Simons’
adorable albino squirrel (I’m not kidding, check it out), and
finally MCWong’s must-read
guide to Kopi in Singapore.
W3C Talks in June
W3C Talks in June
06/05/2005 10:46 PM2005-06-01: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an
RSS channel. (News archive)
"June 2004"
"June 2004"
06/03/2004 12:21 PMJune 18, 2004
June 18, 2004
06/18/2004 04:18 PM
Dean Jackson, who's responsible for applications
at the W3C: “The good news is that it seems we have many of the
big players ready to go in this area. Joel may get some of his wishes
sooner than he thinks (let's hope!)”
Rhys Jeremiah: “I'll outline the features that I would like to add.”
Jeremy Hartley: “I have spent the past two years
web-enabling my company's HRM System. My intentions have always been
to make the web version of the application as similar to the Win32
version as possible—no compromise allowed. To do this I have had to
use every trick in the book as well as making up quite a few myself.
The process took me two years. I think I could have done it in six
months if I had had the following...”
Yoz
Grahame: “The current Javascript security philosophy can be
easily summarised thus: ‘No.’”
Jeremy Smith: “I want a way to access a
browser's right-click menu.”
Mike Marshall doesn't agree.
“Here is the real solution. Microsoft is
coming out with ClickOnce in VS 2005 ('Whidbey'). What's that, too
platform independent? Java will come with something similar, in fact
Java Web Start apps are pretty much already there. You will have your
pick at this time next year, believe me.”
AMD Opteron 150, 250, 850 out in June
AMD Opteron 150, 250, 850 out in June
04/20/2004 07:23 AMLast 130nm parts?
Meeting up in the UK June 6?
Meeting up in the UK June 6?
05/26/2004 04:43 PMPlanning on arriving in the UK on June 6th. Anyone want to get
together in the evening?
I've set up a
wiki page to plan this.
June 16, 2004
June 16, 2004
06/16/2004 09:56 AM
“There are two opposing forces inside Microsoft, which I will
refer to, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as The Raymond Chen
Camp and The MSDN Magazine Camp.”
How
Microsoft Lost the API War
Sunbeams, June 16
Sunbeams, June 16
06/17/2004 03:48 AMSimon Phipps’
FISL: In
Translation is an elegant argument for expanding your language
repertoire and your mind; Richard Giles has one nifty little piece
about
bass vibrato and Google and another on how his new
self-publishing podium has
opened some doors for him. Ron Ten-Hove gives us
a
small, densely-written essay about metadata in the Web
Services context. Brian Cantrill’s
remarkab
le opening outing dives deep, with a metaphorical side-trip
through cerebral malaria, into
dtrace, which is
causing some heavy heartbeats among kernel-weenies. On a lighter note,
our GNU Desktop Mechanic pens an
ode
to Bloomsday from Denver, Dave Edmondson gives his car an
enterprise-clas
s audio upgrade (you
have to see this to believe
it), and Scott Hudson
takes home a Star Destroyer. (No,
ongoing is not going to turn into BoingBoing, I miss
writing the longer bits and will again, it’s just that between
coding furiously on the Zeppelin and den-mothering the Sunblogfloggers
well I’m busy.)
RPG games for June
RPG games for June
06/17/2004 06:34 AMChicago Tribune Jun 17 2004 10:58AM GMT
SFR to launch 3G in June
SFR to launch 3G in June
02/11/2004 03:02 PMTelecoms.com Feb 11 2004 6:15PM GMT
June 15, 2004
June 15, 2004
06/15/2004 08:38 AM
Oh, goody, FireFox 0.9 is
here. And it's less than a 5 MB download. I have long since switched
to FireFox for web browsing. I switched for the popup blocking but I
stayed for the tabbed browsing.
Here are three reasons to switch web browsers today:
- You'll get fewer viruses and you'll get no annoying
popups asking you if you want to install lame spyware that will ruin
your computer forcing a complete reinstall.
- You can open all your bookmarks in tabs, all at once, and let them
download in the background while you read them.
- You'll help break the Microsoft Monopoly on web browsers.
Microsoft took over the browser market fair and square by making a
better product, but they were so afraid that Web-based applications
would eliminate the need for Windows that they locked the IE team in a
dark dungeon and they haven't allowed improvements to IE for several
years now. Now Firefox is the better product and there's a glimmer of
hope that one day DHTML will actually improve to the point where
web-based applications are just as good as Windows-based
applications.
June 17, 2004
June 17, 2004
06/17/2004 05:57 PM
The Web Hypertext Applications
Technology Working Group is working on extending HTML4 forms to
make Web applications work better.
In the previous rounds of HTML enhancement, the world's great
graphic designers (like Jeffrey Zeldman) made the most noise and got
us things like CSS which allow the kind of pixel-perfect page layout
that the marketing people like, done in an intelligent way that
separates content from presentation. Kudos. They got what they wanted,
mostly, and quieted down. Now it's time for us application developers
to start clamoring for the features we need to develop great web
applications. Here are some examples of the kinds of features I'd like
to see in web browsers:
- Improved inline editing (step one: make contentEditable work in
Gecko just like it does in IE 5.5+)
- Javascript features to do fast REST queries back to the server, so
I can implement things like a lush spell checker with the dictionary
on the server. It should be possible to have a 300,000 employee
directory on the server and create a web app that has a list box where
you can type the first few letters of an employee's name and see a
filtered list as fast as you can type on the screen.
- A rich set of standard controls for application development that
provide better ways to upload files, better ways to drag and drop with
the desktop, etc
- Compiled or compressed JavaScript, so that web applications can
use really large amounts of JavaScript with decent performance
- Better standardized windowing features. At the very least I'd like
modal and modeless dialogs that pop up instantly, a standard
way to do a menu inside a web page (with ONE consistent UI, not
everybody's wacky DHTML menu that are all a bit different), TreeView
and ListView controls, and a standard way to make a
toolbar/button bar
- The ability to get a "device context" (in a platform neutral way)
on an HTML control and wail on it to paint just about anything you
want
- A far richer set of events. At the very least I need to be able to
use the entire keyboard. Combined with #6 I should be able to develop
any custom control I want that is 100% client side.
- Media integration, so I can play sounds or stream music in
standard ways without relying on <objects>
- Graceful degradation for legacy browsers (IE. It's time to make
Microsoft play catchup again. Fire and Motion Baby.)
This is just a random list, nothing organized. These things
would have happened if browser development hadn't ground to a
halt in the late 90s due to the misgu
ided Netscape-rewrite-project and the
lock-IE-developers-in-a-dungeon project.
What I do not want to hear about:
- Proprietary tools like Macromedia's or Java Applets that embed
clever widgets in rectangles in a browser. I want this stuff
integrated with DHTML and CSS, deeply in the fabric of the web
- Things that don't have any chance of degrading gracefully on
legacy browsers. You have to be able to construct an interface that
gets better if you install Firefox, but still works on IE, without too
much testing on the part of the developer.
- Boil the ocean schemes that require 400,000,000 users to install
some thingamajig before you get anything useful. Such schemes will not
go anywhere.
What are your ideas for improving the HTML/CSS/JavaScript
infrastructure to make web app development better? Write them up and
post them somewhere; I'll point to the best ones from my blog. Please
don't email me your suggestions -- post them on the web and email me a
link so everyone can benefit. I just don't have enough time for
private email conversations (yesterday's API Wars article generated
well over 200 thoughtful email messages which I can never hope to
respond to adequately). It's time for application developers to start
clamoring for the next generation of the Web now that the graphic
designers got their wish list taken care of.
June Zeitgeist
June Zeitgeist
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"June 11, 2004 09:36 AM
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06/15/2004 12:12 AMSunbeams, June 13
Sunbeams, June 13
06/14/2004 12:26 AMHerewith the latest harvest from the Sunbloggin’ posse:
John Clingan is
on a bit of a roll; his top quote questions the whole “technology
analyst” ballgame, and second from the top, he washes some dirty Sun
laundry in public (who says we don’t let it all hang out?). Eduardo
Pelegri-Llopart does
some basic
consciousness-raising about J2EE and Application Servers. And
Martin Hardee
writes about the horrendous difficulty of keeping
something like Sun.com organized and (ideally) useful; that’s a
problem I wouldn’t be brave enough to anywhere near.
Next rev of PowerSchool due June 25
Next rev of PowerSchool due June 25
04/12/2004 11:24 PMPowerSchool, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, has announced version
2004 of its PowerSchool SIS (student information system)...
June 02, 2005
June 02, 2005
06/05/2005 11:33 PM
Michael Pryor reports: “Once you get
Subversion set up and running, if you are on Windows, you will be
amazed at how useful a good Subversion client can be. Steve King has
created a fantastic piece of software, the TortoiseSVN client, and he
has spent some time making sure that it works perfectly with
FogBugz.”
Mystery from next door
We share the floor of our building with a
contracting firm, White&Carr, who moved in shortly after we did.
We were always on good terms with them, and they seemed like a
generic, successful contracting company. They were talking about
opening a new office in Philly.
The founder of the firm, Raymond White, often came by our office to
chat and be neighborly. Some of you may have met him at our open house
last year.
A few weeks ago, as I left the office, I noticed a woman banging on
the door to the office. "Have you seen anyone from this company
lately?"
I hadn't. But I told her that Raymond had an apartment down the
street. "Did you check his apartment?"
"He's not there either," she said.
As the weeks went by we noticed nobody was coming or going, and we
could see under the door that an awful lot of mail was piling up
there.
The landlord told us they had stopped paying their rent. The
building super told us that the workers stopped coming in to work
because they weren't getting paid.
Weird.
I'll bet you think I'm going to tell you what happened. I don't
know!
June 13, 2005
June 13, 2005
06/17/2005 02:22 PM
The
interns report: “In Aardvark, for
example, I initially attached some new connection-specific handshaking
code inside a class that controlled the windows taskbar icon for our
program. That probably sounds a bit silly, but it actually made a
reasonable amount of sense.” Riiight.
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