Finnish blog list bought
Grok Headline matches for Finnish blog list bought
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...)
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.
Finnish bl0g awards nominees published
Finnish bl0g awards nominees published
03/28/2005 03:35 PMBlogger is
throwing a tantrum, so I'll have to announce this here: The
nominees
for the Finnish weblog awards for 2004 are up. Congrats to
everyone, the jury will now commence work. The date and location for
the gala will be announced once I have recovered from my two weeks of
incessant traveling...
(224 voters, 2301 votes cast.)
Big List of Blog Search Engines
Big List of Blog Search Engines
01/03/2004 05:55 AMaripaparo.com/archive/000632.html
track this
site | 4 links
List of Blog Search Engines Available
List of Blog Search Engines Available
01/02/2004 09:29 AMAre you having a hard time keeping up with all the weblog search
engines available? Me too. Luckily Ari Paparo is making it a lot
easier with the Big List...
"Big List of Blog Search Engines"
"Big List of Blog Search Engines"
01/04/2004 03:27 PMjeff's bl0g list for media guys
jeff's bl0g list for media guys
07/25/2004 08:54 PMa great place to start for those who don't know the weblog medium yet
Chris Shiflett's Blog: phpsec-news List
Launches
Chris Shiflett's Blog: phpsec-news List
Launches
03/23/2005 10:33 AMWith the success of the current
PHP
Security Consortium mailing list, Chris has decided to expand the
offerings with a new mailing feature -
the new phpsec-news mailing
list.
Joshua Eichorn's Blog: AJAX Resource
List Updates
Joshua Eichorn's Blog: AJAX Resource
List Updates
06/17/2005 03:32 PMJoshua Eichorn has
this new post today with an update on his lisitng
of
AJAX
resources.
I finally got through my incoming bookmark category and read up on all
the AJAX stuff that looked useful. I also updated my resource browser
code to allow you to browse by any tag.
I also had a couple other non AJAX related sites that look
interesting. (and) Finally here are the new items in the resource
library, If you click on a category you can read the extended
description, and see the extra information i’ve got tags to the
items.
Categories that include new items are: library, tutorial<
/a>, article, and blog...
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
Finnish 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.
"review (in Finnish)"
"review (in Finnish)"
07/05/2004 09:37 AMIn 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>)
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.
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 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...)
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!
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]
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.
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....
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.
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)
Steve Jobs Tops List Of Forbes' 'The
Most-Improved CEOs' List
Steve Jobs Tops List Of Forbes' 'The
Most-Improved CEOs' List
12/02/2003 12:37 AM(MacDailyNews via MyAppleMenu)
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. :)
Web addiction gets Finnish conscripts
out of army
Web addiction gets Finnish conscripts
out of army
08/03/2004 04:21 PMCNET News.com Aug 3 2004 8:01PM GMT
Life for Finnish student's killer
Life for Finnish student's killer
04/26/2004 01:15 PMA man is sentenced to life imprisonment for the "brutal" and "savage"
murder of Finnish student Suvi Aronen.
HP to manage IT for Finnish energy giant
HP to manage IT for Finnish energy giant
08/23/2004 10:37 AMFinnish energy giant Fortum Corp. has signed a five-year agreement
with Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) to manage its IT infrastructure and
support about 10,000 users across Europe.
Finnish 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.
Finnish bl0gging service open
Finnish bl0gging service open
02/01/2005 09:47 PMVuodatus.net
now offers a pretty comprehensive blogging service in Finnish. It's
roughly as easy as
Blogger, but offers some additional
things like RSS feed integration (you can have your side bar to
include headlines from other blogs), quite comprehensive templating,
categories (and searching of blogs based on categories), built-in
statistics, built-in help on all pages, and naturally it's all
Finnish.
Looks very comprehensive, yet easy for a new blogger. And has
enough power to work for a bit more experienced bloggers as well.
Very good and all the best to them!
(Very few of the blogs on vuodatus.net seem to be in the Pinseri blog-list.
Why?)
Net Addiction Gets Finnish Soldiers Out
Of Army
Net Addiction Gets Finnish Soldiers Out
Of Army
08/04/2004 01:23 AMFinnish police admits mistake
Finnish police admits mistake
03/14/2005 06:21 PMJani of
Marginaali has received a
response from the Finnish Deputy National Police Commissioner (i.e.
the Chief of Police Force) via
Enterblogi. The police admits that a single officer had no right to order a
web page to be censored, even if a possible crime had occurred, and
that "the law regarding the freedom of speech and mass media is
not known well enough among the police."
While it is worrying that the police do not seem to know the law,
it's very positive that mistakes are acknowledged and hopefully
learned from. A memo has been sent to the Oulu Provincial Police
Command, and it's likely that the state
provincial office will also need to address the issue due to an
official complaint from Jani.
This is not the first case, nor will it be the last. In fact, my
guess is that we'll see at least another attack like this against
online personal publishing. Granted, there are some blogs which
probably deserve it, but as this is arguably a new domain of
publishing, the legislation will have to be tested in the blogosphere
as well. And as such, I welcome it, as it clears the rules and the
playing field. I just hope nobody would need to suffer for it...
Jani has been called in for questioning by the local police on the
matter for next Friday. This will be interesting...
(Read the previous part of the story.)
I just bought a Mac
I just bought a Mac
09/26/2004 05:22 AMThat's right, I bought a Mac. A cheap iBook, to be exact. I'm not
planning to write software for the Mac, but I do want to keep up with
the goings-on in the Mac world, and I could also learn a lot from the
Mac UI. See, there's one thing that Apple consistently gets right
that Microsoft consistently gets wrong: style.
After working with OS-X for a few hours, switching back to Windows
is like partying with Charlize Theron then coming
home to
Kathy Bates. Sure, Kathy Bates is exceptionally talented, but
sometimes a little glamour is exciting.
"he bought some ads "
"he bought some ads "
11/03/2003 09:33 PMFrom Wish List to Check List: Customer
Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
2003 Service Pack 1
From Wish List to Check List: Customer
Input Drives Microsoft Office OneNote
2003 Service Pack 1
04/20/2004 11:26 PMIn an academic setting, a score of 90 percent earns an automatic "A".
By that measure, the team shaping Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 merits
a similar high passing grade. When the innovative application debuted
last October, it reflected the pioneering edge of the digital
note-taking category. Today, Microsoft honed that edge by announcing
the preview release of Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1
(OneNote SP1). Ninety percent of the features included in the software
update are a direct result of customer input and feedback -- with the
remaining 10 percent coming from indirect customer feedback.
'internet Addiction' Get Finnish
Soldiers Out Of Army
'internet Addiction' Get Finnish
Soldiers Out Of Army
08/03/2004 04:21 PMstory.news.yahoo.com via Drudge Report Aug 3 2004 8:11PM GMT
Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military
Internet addicts sent home from Finnish
military
08/03/2004 04:37 PMToo depressed to shoot anything
HP inks deal with Finnish energy firm
HP inks deal with Finnish energy firm
08/23/2004 02:40 PMCNET News.com Aug 23 2004 7:29PM GMT
Wireless from start to Finnish [Mobile
comms]
Wireless from start to Finnish [Mobile
comms]
05/04/2004 02:02 PMPC Magazine UK May 4 2004 6:22PM GMT
Grok Description matches for Finnish blog list bought
GrokA matches for Finnish blog list bought
Finnish blog list bought
