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Through Finland in Packets

Through Finland in Packets 06/17/2005 04:27 PM

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Ever since the Washington Post started doing their 'Finland Journal' blog I've been thinking about saying something, but wanted to wait until they had finished the series and until I had enough time to think about what I wanted to say without sounding like one of the many wackjobs, both Finnish and American, whose comments ranged from explaining how to pronounce SOW-na to ranting about the Swedish Fascist oppression in Finland to bickering about nothing. Mostly I just found the commentary deeply depressing as monoculture was praised as the reason for all the good things in Finland and the reason for all the bad things in the US a bit more often than I found comfortable. I come from one of the most fucked up nations on the planet, but I'm awfully glad for the variety of people there since it is the greatest asset the US has in terms of creativity and innovation. Being a threat to this vaunted Finnish monoculture is not a fun place to be at times. Some expats just complain, some never do and the rest of us try to get on with life as best as we can and occasionally, cautiously, commiserate over beer and try to focus on the positive things as much as possible. One of the reasons I like my 'cookery' is that it's fun to explore the differences in cuisine, I'm reasonably good at it, it's something positive, and nobody hates the person who brings tasty treats for afternoon coffee. :)

There has been a lot of criticism among the foreigners, and even a Phinn, here about the series since visiting somewhere as a journalist on an official junket likely sponsored by the state vs. living here are two very different experiences and given the inevitable superficiality of the WP coverage, a lot of us were disappointed. One of the reasons that Finland is supposedly the "country that Americans know least about" is that aside from the usual Santa, sauna and sisu stories, very little else gets written in English about this country. I've taken to collecting books on travel to Finland, some more than 100 years old, and I could match the topics nearly 1:1 with the old travelogues to the Finland Journal coverage. In fact, I think I liked the bitchy and less fawning Mrs. Tweedie's Through Finland in Carts from 1898 much better as, in spite of her unsavoury British imperialism, she was a far more snarky and entertaining writer. But, again, same shit, different century. Surely, even the Finns must bore of this though the clichés are what keep the tourists coming. It's like the hackneyed 'pahk ya cah in Havahd Yahd' and Paul Revere legends of Boston. The Boston strangler, townies and Southie don't get a lot of press since they aren't exactly attractive to locals much less to tourists.

For the expats, there's precisely dick to prepare them for what awaits them making a life here. Trying to explain how Finland differs for residents as opposed to tourists to the newly arrived is a chore since you either sound bitter or are constantly doubting your own experience of everything in a miasma of cultural relativism and personal baggage. A lot of us come to live here because we have a spouse/SO, a spouse/SO who very likely does not have an objective view or an understanding of the difference between being Finnish and being not Finnish in Finland. I was in quite a sulk for a few weeks after I met an Aus-Fin couple who had moved here and, after two months, the Australian was escaping in defeat after being told repeatedly in interviews that her education credentials were worthless in Finland, the downside of an educational system regarded, and which regards itself, so highly. Her boyfriend seemed completely surprised by this and felt badly for not being a better judge of his own country. With the dearth of realistic information for those wanting to move here, many have no other choice than to trust their Finnish loved one which may or may not prove to be the best option. This seems to happen more often than not as expats don't often stay for more than a few years before giving up and heading back home, with or without the spouse/SO. I don't know if immigration actually keeps track of those who leave and why, but it would be interesting to see the average length of stay for expats as I expect it is generally very short. How many of the foreigners work for Nokia would also be an interesting statistic.

The question this raises is why do people leave? Finland is, in many ways, a lovely country, but why do expats frequently only stay for a short while? It's an important question, one few seem curious about or willing to discuss. The most frequent rebuttals to any criticism or merely mentioning that life here can be a challenge is that it's "the same everywhere" or that we can always just pack up and go home. Ironically, I would expect this sort of chiding from red state Americans. I think that this might be at the heart of much of our nebulous reasons for struggle here; that Finland is a young country, even by American standards, and with a long history of fighting off invading outsiders, Finland has developed a very, very strong streak of nationalism. What's wrong with nationalism? Well, after 9/11, I saw neighbours wanting to beat the shit out of the grocers down the street who had been there for over 20 years because suddenly they were those dark towel heads, "them", who flew into the WTC instead of the two brothers who had been selling them their groceries for decades. Nationalism separates as much as it binds and mostly it just makes people blind and monumentally stupid.

One of the first memorable experiences was while walking HB down Bulevardi about a week after arriving here and running into a smiling little old lady who wanted to pet him and started chatting me up. As soon as I started to say something the smile fell off her face which was replaced by a scowl full of scorn whereupon she screeched something, waved me off and stalked away in a huff. I was like, what the fuck just happened? This would be repeated quite a few times and, in spite of being able to rationalise the behaviour, first impressions tend to be difficult to change. I remain rather shy about being busted as a foreigner and still have a very difficult time daring to say anything to strangers. In the dog park, I'll stand around understanding everything the other dog owners are saying but don't join the conversation which has, on occasion, marked me as a foreigner just as much as saying something would have. :)

Generally, it's the small things, the day to day things, the very difficult to define things, that make life as an outsider here a daily struggle. Learning the language is the single largest hurdle in bridging the gap and becoming less of an alien, but after two years I'm still cautious, still shy, still neurotic about speaking it to the point of avoiding situations where I might have to say something to someone because I'm scared of being busted as an outsider. We all have little defensive tactics like this, depending on our individual hang-ups and struggles. One of my friends visited home a while back and she remarked in an email that she was in awe of how suddenly aware she was of how the little daily things in Finland make life so much more work than back in the realm of the friendly familiarity of home.

Some things, however, aren't so vague, but these are the things we don't talk about or quietly discuss amongst ourselves because they're either too depressing to dwell upon or tend to be met with vituperative attacks. There are things endemic to being an expat, a foreigner in a strange land, that often make you wonder if it's you, if you're not trying hard enough or if it's the culture that is responsible for the discontent and many things often do have simple explanations, if not simple solutions. I have lived elsewhere and, given the culture and the language barrier, Finland is a very challenging place to find a happy niche whether or not any Finns want to hear or acknowledge that. It's not a destination for the easily discouraged or the impatient.

Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to a couple with two adorable basset hounds who had just returned to Finland after 7 years abroad who remarked at how "international" Helsinki seemed nowadays. There are many words I'd use to describe Helsinki, most of them nice even, but international wouldn't be one of them. Being part of the EU while rejecting or reluctantly accepting some of the things that come with being part of the EU, like foreigners, doesn't make a place international any more than dining out at a Nepalese restaurant makes you a world traveller. This doesn't mean Finland should aspire to the problems of the Netherlands, but acknowledging the problems that exist here for foreigners might be something to consider since people do generally tend to stay in places that they feel welcome in and Finland, either intentionally or not, often gives outsiders the impression that we are either not welcome or just merely tolerated. If Finland doesn't want foreigners, it should really just pull out of the EU and close the borders.

So, I suppose the point of my rambling is that there are at least a few of us around who like it here and are trying with sincerity to learn the language, fit in and get along like everyone else but there are so many conflicting messages between what we read in the paper or hear from our spouses and what we actually experience at times that it makes it difficult to reconcile the disparity and still keep on trying. It's a struggle. It's like bloody musical chairs watching all the expats leave one by one.

The Weird Als of Finland

The Weird Als of Finland 06/30/2004 06:07 PM

Finland has a dance called the humppa, but it's spoken of with the same disdain that disco gets in the US these days. It's for the geezers. I have been told it is something like the German polka only without the lederhosen, which is good since I'm half German and, after a few Straßenfests where people jump around in lederhosen with buckets of beer in their hands barely able to stand up, much less dance, the costumes just don't really add much to the overall aesthetic. I had a biology professor, a Bavarian who was really into opera singing, show up for a lecture in lederhosen and dance a polka for us while we sat there speechless. Everyone thought he was nuts, but I just thought he was hopelessly homesick and I couldn't imagine him doing that dance without the full costume in his usually disheveled professor uniform. I have been spared, so far, the spectacle of drunk Finns hopping around much like drunk Germans to goofy music. So far.

While we were off at the lake for Juhannus, my ear picked up something that sounded a lot like Viva Las Vegas but....not. I was informed that it was a group called Eläkeläiset [the pensioners] who are the humppa song gods in Finland and, well, everywhere else people like to humppa. I fried a few neurons just thinking about an Elvis tune done in humpaa/polka time. I can't describe their music except to say that they are the Weird Al Yankovics of Finland. Sample the Peljätty Humppa [2.2mb] and try to guess the song they are covering and be very, very afraid. It's like Ethyl Merman singing a disco version of No Business like Show Business [yes, she really did...], as it's so bad that it transcends the badness and is irresistibly brilliant. I must have more of their music. The guys actually have a regular band, Kumikameli, but I can't really tell the difference between the samples on that web site and the humppa music so it may be just a nuance only a Finn can hear. :) The lyrics are very clever and, unsurprisingly, the music is popular with the polka loving Germans. There even seems to be an OpenBSD-Humppa connection which does help explain a few things about OpenBSD. Weird Al has done a polka album so perhaps it is time he teamed up with Eläkeläiset and did a humppa album. Disturbing thought. *zot* There went another neuron.

Dan Gillmor in Finland

Dan Gillmor in Finland 03/14/2005 06:21 PM
For anyone who's been following the late journalism-debate, the Man Himself, i.e. Dan Gillmor is coming to Finland. Please join him in an open session at Korjaamo, Helsinki, Tuesday, 12 April at 18:00. I'll certainly try to be there.

Ja sama suomeksi: Dan Gillmor, toimittaja-bloggaaja, joka on puhunut pitkään kansalaisjournalismin puolesta, on tulossa puhumaan avoimeen keskustelutilaisuuteen Helsingissä, Korjaamolla, tiistaina 12. huhtikuuta kello 18.00. Tervetuloa!

(Via Jyri.)

Wireless Finland

Wireless Finland 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

The Helsingin Sanomat ran an article in the paper earlier this week about the growing number of wireless access points in Helsinki and around Finland. The article included a nice map noting the locations which I scanned in and offer here in a small ~60k jpg and a large ~240k jpg. It seems that most of the current hot spots are catering to the business traveller judging from the number of hotels and business centers listed. There are a few cafes and a movie theatre or two listed though and my hope is that it finds sufficient interest to keep spreading. I've had wireless at home for years now and find it luxurious to sit on the couch with my laptop even now. I'd really like to see WiFi in public libraries in addition to more coffee shops since students would benefit a lot from being able to use their own computer while doing research or homework.

There are two companies offering WiFi; Sonera and DNA. DNA seems to be geared more towards the local geeks and ala carte folks while Sonera is mainly in the hotel and business traveller market. Sonera Homerun doesn't appear to have a pricing structure on the net. The DNA WLAN service has three different price plans which range from €5 per month with a per minute fee to €90 for those with a serious porn habit and large downloads.

Until mobile phones get much more sophisticated displays, surfing the net or reading email with them more than occasionally isn't as attractive as having a small laptop and WiFi in convenient spots around town. WiFi really means WIreless FInland. :)

Part 3G Networks In Finland

Part 3G Networks In Finland 04/19/2004 07:03 AM
3G Apr 19 2004 11:08AM GMT

Finland no comprende computers

Finland no comprende computers 06/06/2005 12:11 AM
Schizo-J anne asks why Finland is lagging behind in WLAN deployments. There are roughly three free WiFi hotspots in Helsinki, a major difference to our neighbour Tallinn, which has open WiFi almost everywhere in the city center. Well, the Finnish cities of Oulu, Turku, and Lahti have already started lacing themselves with WLAN networks, and the Lappeenranta University of Technology WLAN network is to my understanding also spreading into the city, so the situation is not really that bad.

But Janne is right to ask this. Finland is not really very innovative in this area at the moment, partly because it's not seen as very important. A lot of Finland's technological and financial innovation is currently poured towards the 3G (aka WCDMA, aka UMTS) development and deployment. While technologically it offers a similar solution to WLAN, and Finns are doing pretty well in mobile phone usage (though nowhere near the top), there is one key difference that people tend to ignore when talking about these things.

Freedom to innovate.

In order for you to develop a fancy new 3G app, you need to talk to and appease operators, cell phone manufacturers, and all sorts of different companies that are in the so-called "value chain". Everybody wants their small piece of it, and you end up thinking about things like "brand dilution" and "quality of service" and "code signing". All this creates quite a lot of energy, and it does not guarantee that you will create a good app - it just means that you are really good at presenting your case, and it does make sense to a lot of people. Even if you wanted to just build a simple SMS-based service, you would need quite a lot of investment of at least time, if not capital, to interface with the network: you need the PC with a bunch of cell phones attached. Or buy a platform from an operator.

Open WLAN, however, means that you can start to innovate at very, very low costs. Web space is cheap, PHP can be done by anyone, and startup costs are minimal. All you need is the idea, and the tools and the knowledge are mostly there already. Granted, you can also run a browser-based application on a 3G phone, no problem, but this always is at cost to the user: the browser-based UI is not optimal for a small device. And developing an optimized GUI for a mobile device is difficult and sometimes nerve-wrecking.

You can split the space in two ways: you can concentrate on innovating vertically : building entire solutions from the low bits to the end application. Or you can innovate horizontally - build platforms which allow other people to innovate and build upon.

3G or WLAN.

It's just like "Nokia or Linux".

I'm not saying Nokia wasn't a success, obviously it was (and is). But I do believe that in the future, it's more probable to see a new Linux-like success story than a Nokia-like success story coming from Finland. Which is why supporting platforms for free innovation would be so important.

Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing

Finland OKs 3G Network Sharing 04/16/2004 06:11 AM
Unstrung.com Apr 16 2004 10:21AM GMT

From Finland, the land of the original

From Finland, the land of the original 12/26/2003 07:54 PM
Rare Exports, Inc. They deliver the extremely rare original Finnish product to nearly 150 countries every Christmas, exclusively. It's a big download (the small version is 35.5 MB) but that's nothing compared to the patience these hunters must have to catch their prey. [NSFW, via MonkeyFilter.]

Explosion in Finland: 7 Dead

Explosion in Finland: 7 Dead 10/15/2002 07:15 AM
Explosion in Finland: 7 Dead From Yahoo News via Google News: A bomb ripped through a one of Finland's largest shopping malls, killing seven people, injuring 59 others and stunning a nation unaccustomed to violence. Government officials didn't rule ... [ More ] Good lord. What's going on in the world. Snipers in the U.S. and a bomber in Finland ....

Larry Lessig to speak in Finland

Larry Lessig to speak in Finland 05/21/2004 06:54 AM
(Via Jyri). Toimitus suosittelee, ja kiroilee kun ei itse pääse paikalle.

KUTSU

Avoin luento ja keskustelutilaisuus
Professor Lawrence Lessig Helsingissä
"The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity"
Maanantaina 24.5. klo 17.30
Kulttuuritehdas Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 b

Tervetuloa avoimeen keskustelutilaisuuteen Professori Lawrence Lessigin kanssa Helsingissä maantantaina 24.5. klo 17.30 Korjaamolla, Töölönkatu 51b. Professori Lessig on yksi maailman tunnetuimpia ajattelijoita, kirjoittajia ja luennoitsijoita digitaalisen kulttuurin, median ja tekijänoikeuksien kehityksestä. Nyt suomalaisella yleisöllä on ainutlaatuinen mahdollisuus kuulla ja haastaa kansainvälistä vaikuttajaa. Teemana on "The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity."

Tilaisuuden järjestää Aula. Aula on avoin verkosto, joka tukee ajatusten vaihtoa poikki rajojen.

Tätä kutsua voi lähettää sähköisesti eteenpäin kaikille kiinnostuneille.

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INVITATION

You are invited to an open discussion with Professor Lawrence Lessig on Monday 24.5. at 17.30 at Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 b in Helsinki. Professor Lessig will speak on "The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity" followed by a discussion with the audience. The event will be held in English and is free and open to the public.

The event is organized by Aula. Aula is an open network that promotes the exchange of ideas across boundaries.

Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested in attending.

About the speaker

Lawrence Lessig (http://www.lessig.org/) is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

More recently, Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Lessig was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online."

Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, law and high technology, Internet regulation, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. His book, Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace, was published by Basic Books, and The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, is available from Random House. His most recent book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is now available online at http://www.free-culture.cc and from Penguin Press.

Professor Lessig chairs the Creative Commons project (http://creativecommons.org/faq). Professor Lessig is a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a board member of the Center for the Public Domain, and a Commission Member of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.

Commercial bl0gs entering Finland

Commercial bl0gs entering Finland 04/08/2005 06:39 PM
My my, what an interesting week this has been: First, Blogilista goes commercial, and now Pirkka-magazine has launched a number of commercial blogs. The Finnish blogosphere reacts with violent distrust and confusion.

I see no problem. These are clearly blogs, simply because th e only meaningful definition for the world blog is based on form, not content. They're not lying about their affiliation. They publish polished content. In fact, I find it wonderful that a media publisher dares to go and try and embrace the new media. They even publish Atom feeds for all blogs! Way!

However, entering the blogosphere may be more difficult than just dumping Movabletype on your magazine web site: people will look at these blogs. They will discuss. They will find crap on them (if there's any). They will write about it. And it's difficult to ignore them, if you want to keep your credibility. Other bloggers will call your bullshit - and very likely, someone in that bunch is at least equal in writing skills and more knowledgeable on the subject than you. And they know it.

Now the question is how much integrity Pirkka wants to have: do they just want to publish news articles in a blog format - or do they really want to go full out and really try to embrace the dialogue that comes with the format?

You see, whatever else blogs may be, they work best as a personal media. You need to let people write with their own voice, not just copying material from others - even if you have all the rights to do so. It's the power and bane of the format; a personal touch creates reader loyalty, but it also means that you have to get involved in your writing - "laittaa itsensä likoon", as the Finns say. And that is not easy.

Welcome to the crowd! I'm happy you're here, anyway. People will grumble, but there's always room for one more in the jacuzzi.

(A quick hint to Pirkka writers: Read http://www.corporateblogging .info/, and Scoble's Corporat e Blogging Manifesto. Understand. Internalize. And stop posting articles from one person under the name of another... That simply takes away credibility from the author.)

(And a quick other hint to people who complain about these being on blogilista.fi: get a clue. Really. Would you stop using a phone book simply because it contains company phone numbers, or stop using Google because it's *gasp* a profit-making company? That's exactly what Blogilista.fi is - an index of blogs, nothing more. It ain't your personal blogospheric community where people live happily and go to the woods to get undressed and hug each other in a blogoslavic überbliss. If you don't like the direction they're taking, learn to use RSS and site feeds, and make your own personal bloglist.

Blogging in Finland is finally growing up. The hype around blogging will cease in a year or two, and hopefully we then can better understand what the media is and what one can do with it. And then we can get back to the really important thing: writing. Writing about your dog, or your political views, or celebrity divorces, or company products, or food, or your sex life, or whatever pleases you. Some bloggers will gain prestige; some bloggers will become influential; some bloggers will make many people laugh; some bloggers will make many people weep. Some will be completely ignored. Most will just for

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Nokia phone explodes in Finland

Nokia phone explodes in Finland 11/06/2003 11:14 AM
Counterfeit battery to blame

Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children

Educators Flocking to Finland, Land of
Literate Children 04/09/2004 08:02 PM
If one trait sets Finland apart from many other countries, it is the quality and social standing of its teachers.

Finland telecoms: Nokia unveils handheld
internet tablet

Finland telecoms: Nokia unveils handheld
internet tablet 06/24/2005 03:06 PM
Ebusinessforum.com - Fri Jun 24, 12:15 pm GMT

Regionalization of W3C Offices

Regionalization of W3C Offices 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Tax offices hit by strike

Tax offices hit by strike 04/22/2004 02:46 PM
Staff at vehicle licensing offices in NI are to strike indefinitely, in an escalation of a pay dispute.

Acclaim Closes Offices?

Acclaim Closes Offices? 08/28/2004 11:52 AM

Cyber Fraudsters Hit Offices

Cyber Fraudsters Hit Offices 12/31/2003 06:13 AM
Blackmail artists are shaking down office workers, threatening to delete computer files or install porn on work computers. E-mails demand a small ransom and most people pay up to prevent the extortionists from following through.

TSC offices linked as it computerises

TSC offices linked as it computerises 06/20/2004 05:39 PM
East African Standard Jun 20 2004 9:28PM GMT

Serving Your Users in their Offices

Serving Your Users in their Offices 06/22/2005 02:19 AM

There’s a lot of “places” where your library could shift to meet your users in their space. Here’s another one from the brilliant mind of John Wohlers, he of the library FireFox search extension.

Microsoft® Office 2003 Research Pane

“The Todd library now offers the ability to search our library catalog directly from within most Microsoft Office 2003 applications. To activate this new feature you will need to install our Research Service….

To use the service you will need to access the research pane in a Microsoft Office 2003 application. First select the ‘Task Pane’ option from the ‘View’ menu. Once the task pane is displayed you will need to switch to the Research pane by selecting the drop-down at the top of the task pane. After you have switched to the Research pane you will need to select ‘Todd Library: Online Catalog’ from the drop-down box located below the search box. You may now perform keyword searches of the Todd Library Online catalog any time from your Office 2003 Application.”

Emphasis above is mine because that’s what I’m talking about! I even mentioned this exact type of product at last year’s Illinois Library Association conference as the type of web service libraries need to be moving towards. And maybe we can all move there a little faster, because John noted the following in an email to me:

“This service will ONLY work on windows computers with Microsoft Office 2003 installed.  There does not seem to be a comparable feature in the Macintosh office suite.
 
Once I do more a little more clean up (yes I'm a messy coder...) I will most likely make the source code available to the world via a project on source forge.  It is my hope that in doing so others will be able to contribute to this project and make it something the library world as a whole can be proud of.”

Suh-weet! Now if I just had a copy of Office 2003 so I could see this in action for myself….  ;-)

Income tax offices to be computerised

Income tax offices to be computerised 12/25/2003 06:39 PM
The Tribune Dec 25 2003 4:47PM ET

S. Korean Microsoft Offices Searched

S. Korean Microsoft Offices Searched 06/10/2004 01:03 PM
AP via ABCNEWS.com Jun 10 2004 5:46PM GMT

PPL sells off laboratories and offices
for GBP1.24m

PPL sells off laboratories and offices
for GBP1.24m 12/23/2003 10:22 PM
Scotsman Online Dec 23 2003 9:40PM ET

FBI seizes computer from AIPAC offices

FBI seizes computer from AIPAC offices 08/31/2004 07:09 PM
Jerusalem Post Aug 31 2004 10:33PM GMT

Internet Plan for Post Offices

Internet Plan for Post Offices 01/02/2004 12:03 PM
Scotsman Online Jan 2 2004 11:19AM ET

Internet plan for post offices

Internet plan for post offices 01/02/2004 01:14 PM
Ananova Jan 2 2004 11:42AM ET

I-T Dept To Tighten Tax Net By Linking
Offices

I-T Dept To Tighten Tax Net By Linking
Offices 01/07/2004 07:11 PM
Financial Express Jan 7 2004 5:23PM ET

Burma reopens opposition offices

Burma reopens opposition offices 04/16/2004 10:21 PM
Burma's military leadership reopens the headquarters of the opposition NLD party after a year.

Blast rocks US offices in Baghdad

Blast rocks US offices in Baghdad 05/06/2004 12:08 AM
An apparent car bomb explodes outside the US administration compound in Baghdad, causing casualties.

Intel's Japan offices raided

Intel's Japan offices raided 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
ZDNet Apr 8 2004 2:39PM GMT

Intel's Japanese Offices Raided

Intel's Japanese Offices Raided 04/09/2004 05:20 PM
asia.internet.com Apr 9 2004 8:54PM GMT

Microsoft's Korean offices raided

Microsoft's Korean offices raided 06/13/2004 03:08 PM
Microsoft on Friday confirmed Korean Fair Trade Commission officials visited the company's South Korean offices to collect information. The Korean officials collected information from the software giant's offices on Thursday and are currently investigating the bundling of Microsoft's instant messaging software with its Windows operating system. "Microsoft has been and will continue to cooperate fully with the KFTC as it carries out its inquiry," the company said in a statement.

NetCracker Expansion Leads to New
Offices

NetCracker Expansion Leads to New
Offices 07/15/2004 03:10 AM
NetCracker Technology, a leading provider of OSS and IT Infrastructure Management solutions, has moved to new corporate offices in Waltham, MA. The new NetCracker campus offers additional office and conference room space including a state-of-the-art training and product demonstration room. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004]

Blasts hit Iraq political offices

Blasts hit Iraq political offices 06/26/2004 04:36 AM
Attackers blow up offices of two political parties in Baquba, as Iraq prepares for the handover of power.

Explosions Rock Baghdad Near U.S.
Offices (AP)

Explosions Rock Baghdad Near U.S.
Offices (AP) 09/11/2004 10:00 PM
AP - A series of strong explosions shook central Baghdad near dawn Sunday, and columns of thick black smoke rose from the Green Zone where U.S. and Iraqi government offices are located.

House Wants to Move Cybersecurity
Offices

House Wants to Move Cybersecurity
Offices 09/23/2004 04:41 AM
San Jose Mercury News Sep 23 2004 9:25AM GMT

Post offices take on police role

Post offices take on police role 09/27/2004 01:19 AM
Norfolk's post offices are becoming the first in the country where people can access police services over the counter.

Police raid on UUP man's offices

Police raid on UUP man's offices 04/15/2005 12:09 PM
An Ulster Unionist assembly member says his home and two offices in Belfast have been raided by police.
Grok Description matches for W3C Offices Expand to Finland
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Oracle's Bizarre Software Triangle

Oracle's Bizarre Software Triangle 06/24/2004 01:05 PM
Revelations in the Oracle-PeopleSoft trial continue to entertain.

China's 3G Love Triangle

China's 3G Love Triangle 04/26/2004 06:17 AM
The Feature Apr 26 2004 11:05AM GMT

BitKeeper Love Triangle: McVoy, Linus
and Tridge

BitKeeper Love Triangle: McVoy, Linus
and Tridge 04/11/2005 03:17 PM

Ventajas de Firefox frente a Internet
Explorer

Ventajas de Firefox frente a Internet
Explorer 04/09/2004 04:01 PM

NI defiende con éxito 3 patentes frente
a Mathwork

NI defiende con éxito 3 patentes frente
a Mathwork 09/22/2004 08:24 AM

triangle man, triangle man

triangle man, triangle man 03/14/2005 05:43 PM
So, uh . . . there's a story about me in today's New York Times. Oh my god. The New...

Triangle photo stream

Triangle photo stream 04/09/2005 09:43 AM

If you want to subscribe to newsfeed of photos from the Triangle area, paste the URL below into your newsreader. You'll get photos of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, NC along with the occasional photo of Durham, England and random triangle art. I think that's a pretty good mix.

http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?tags=raleigh,ch
apelhill,durham,triangle

The Golden Triangle and the Tarnished
Dot

The Golden Triangle and the Tarnished
Dot 04/04/2005 09:14 PM

Lead Electric Triangle

Lead Electric Triangle 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
I can't believe I just discovered the live music section of the Internet Archive today. Through their feed, I was notified of a new Glen Phillips recording. Boom! Live concerts are mere megabytes away from my media player. Even satellite radio can't touch this kind of convenience....

The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911

The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911 07/22/2004 01:24 PM
The Triangle Factory Fire of 1911. 'This site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century and the resulting investigations and reforms. '

Five GIs Killed in Sunni Triangle
Attacks (AP)

Five GIs Killed in Sunni Triangle
Attacks (AP) 01/24/2004 08:21 PM
AP - Iraqi insurgents struck Saturday in the volatile Sunni Triangle west of Baghdad, killing five U.S. soldiers in separate bombings and narrowly missing an American convoy with a blast that killed four Iraqis and wounded about 40 others north of the capital.

Bacteria blamed for Bermuda Triangle

Bacteria blamed for Bermuda Triangle 06/17/2005 03:34 PM
David Pescovitz: Scientists at Cardiff University are studying whether bacteria that thrive in the high pressures of deep ocean sediments could be a source of sustainable energy. Some of the bacteria spew methane that accumulates in massive fields of ice-like "methane hydrates." Methane hydrates might also be the secret behind an old mystery. From the press release:

One theory now suggests that when the covering of "methane ice" which exists over much of the seabed of the Bermuda Triangle becomes unstable; this causes instability of the sea and an explosive mixture of air and methane above. Any ships or planes travelling over the area could sink or catch fire.

"So ancient, deep-sediment bacteria may be a key to sustainable energy in the future and to explaining a few disasters," said Professor (R. John) Parkes.

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Are You a Perpetual Bad Relationship
Magnet? Nobody's Unlucky in Love:
Learning Core Causes for Lousy Love
Relationships

Are You a Perpetual Bad Relationship
Magnet? Nobody's Unlucky in Love:
Learning Core Causes for Lousy Love
Relationships 06/18/2004 03:10 AM
Relationship advisor and author Nancy Pina dispenses free relationship advice to adults struggling with individual, couples and marriage issues. She advises teens and young adults in recognizing healthy, loving relationships. [PRWEB Jun 18, 2004]

The Secret World of Triangle Rendering
Technology

The Secret World of Triangle Rendering
Technology 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In a techno-economy in which the next "killer app" may be a sophisticated game called Doom 3, makers of graphics chips and video cards must stay several steps ahead of mouse-wielding, saber-bearing gamers bent on nothing less than total domination of perfectly rendered virtual worlds.

Chris Abraham: Liberals Find Mad Love at
Act For Love

Chris Abraham: Liberals Find Mad Love at
Act For Love 06/22/2005 02:45 AM
Liberals Find Mad Love at Act For Love .. Permalink

chrisabraham.com/2005/06/liberals_find_m.html
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Boys love games, girls love ringtones

Boys love games, girls love ringtones 06/02/2004 10:08 AM
But neither gives a hoot for 3G

Crunch time for MCI/Verizon/Qwest lurve
triangle

Crunch time for MCI/Verizon/Qwest lurve
triangle 04/05/2005 06:42 AM
It's a real weepy

Guerrilla Attacks in Iraq Sunni Triangle
Kill Nine

Guerrilla Attacks in Iraq Sunni Triangle
Kill Nine 01/22/2004 11:40 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 22 2004 4:08PM GMT

Cool But Bizarre

Cool But Bizarre 12/02/2003 12:58 AM
I got two copies of Perl 6 Essentials in the mail from O'Reilly today. In Polish. Which is really cool, albeit terribly bizarre. ('Specially as I don't speak or read any polish) It does drive home issues with internationalization and mixed-language character handling, though. (I see how Unicode is useful with this in ways that dealing with Asian character sets doesn't show nearly so much) I should dig out the digital camera and put up a snapshot of the cover just for kicks. Well, that and the ego stroke, of course :)...

"Wait... they don't love you like I love
you" [sorry, got stuck in my head]

"Wait... they don't love you like I love
you" [sorry, got stuck in my head] 03/25/2005 04:09 PM
Social Explorer. "Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format, data maps. We serve hundreds of interactive data maps of United States. Here, you can visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S., explore your neighborhood and learn about the people that live around you."

Love Macs? Then Learn To Love Macsurfer

Love Macs? Then Learn To Love Macsurfer 05/19/2004 08:55 AM
It does a bang up job of providing the Apple community with interesting reads day in day out. By Hadley Stern, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

I love women...no, wait, apparently I
love men

I love women...no, wait, apparently I
love men 01/04/2004 04:59 AM
mirror.co.uk

mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13773600_met hod=full_siteid=50143_headline=-WO-IS-ME--name_page.html
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Guerrilla Attacks in Iraq Sunni Triangle
Kill Nine (Reuters)

Guerrilla Attacks in Iraq Sunni Triangle
Kill Nine (Reuters) 01/22/2004 09:12 AM
Reuters - Guerrillas attacked an Iraqi police post with assault rifles and a grenade Thursday, killing two policemen and a civilian, hours after a mortar attack on a U.S. base killed two soldiers and wounded another.

The document triangle: The
interdependence of the structure,
information and presentation dimensions

The document triangle: The
interdependence of the structure,
information and presentation dimensions 11/06/2003 04:06 AM

Triple Triangle offers crossgrade to
InDesign, Quark users

Triple Triangle offers crossgrade to
InDesign, Quark users 08/09/2004 01:17 PM
Triple Triangle Inc. on Monday offered users of existing slug automation solution for Quark and InDesign to crossgrade to their solution, Slug Cubed for Adobe InDesign. The crossgrade is being offered for US$98, $100 off the retail price. Slug Cubed improves workflow tracking by maintaining accurate, up-to-date slugs and improves productivity of production personnel by eliminating tedious and error prone manual slug maintenance, according to the company.

"bizarre USA Patriot Act arrest"

"bizarre USA Patriot Act arrest" 06/11/2004 12:09 AM

'Alien And Bizarre Landscape'

'Alien And Bizarre Landscape' 01/25/2004 12:47 PM
CBS News Jan 25 2004 5:08PM GMT

Ray Bradbury's Bizarre Complaint

Ray Bradbury's Bizarre Complaint 06/20/2004 12:12 AM

Ray Bradbury is one of the great science fiction writers. But in his advancing years he's also acting in a fairly petty manner. The author of the brilliant novel "Fahrenheit 451" is claiming to anyone who'll listen (AP) that Michael Moore has somehow committed an act of intellectual theft by naming his new movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" without asking permission. He may have a shadow of a point here, but not much more than that. Here's why. First, you can't copyright a title. See "What is Not Protected by Copyright" on the website of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. If Bradbury or anyone connected to him is even thinking of suing, forget it. (There's no trademark on the expression "Fahrenheit 9/11", by the way.) Second, Moore didn't use the same title. He did a word-play on Bradbury's book -- a clever gimmick that resonated with anyone who'd read the novel, a stark warning against totalitarianism and call for people to think for themselves. This kind of thing goes on all the time, and it's part of the artistic process -- building on what came before by using cultural references (of which Fahrenheit 451 is deservedly one) in new creative works. Third, as several people have noted, Bradbury -- author of "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (William Shakespeare) and "I Sing the Body Electric" (Walt Whitman)-- wasn't what you'd call fastidious when it came to totally original titles (not that he should have been). Apparently Bradbury is mostly bothered by Moore's title for commercial reasons, because of an upcoming movie based on his book. (Francois Truffaut did a weird adaptation in the 1960s.) I heard him on a local talk-radio station today, and after he dumped on Moore he seemed cheerful enough in talking about the picture. He's certainly getting plenty of publicity mileage, anyway. The host of the far-right-wing radio show was abysmally uninformed, meanwhile. She was asking him if he planned to sue Moore. Bradbury wisely indicated no such plans, because he'd likely be laughed out of court. (The host also read approvingly from the Foreword to an early edition of the book. It was by a teacher at a Quaker school. She plainly missed the irony.) Moore would have been smart to send a letter to Bradbury months ago, saying the name of his new film was an homage to one of the essential pro-freedom and pro-thinking literary works of recent times. Bradbury would be smart to let this go.

"Ray Bradbury's Bizarre Complaint"

"Ray Bradbury's Bizarre Complaint" 06/22/2004 04:03 AM

Symantec's Bizarre Swap

Symantec's Bizarre Swap 06/04/2004 10:48 AM
After peeling back layers of buybacks, its shareholder dilution is more historic than prospective.

W3C Offices Expand to Finland

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