NYT Mag piece on teen blogs

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nice AP piece on iranian bl0gs

nice AP piece on iranian bl0gs 02/19/2004 02:12 PM
congrats to pedram and hoder for being recognized for their work

Today show segment on teen bl0gs

Today show segment on teen bl0gs 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
seems like an on-air followup to the Sunday NY Times Mag story

Teen bl0gs offer insight into feelings
about life

Teen bl0gs offer insight into feelings
about life 04/02/2005 09:20 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 2 2005 12:24PM GMT

A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most
Advanced Bots

A Piece-By-Piece Guide to the Most
Advanced Bots 06/25/2004 04:54 PM

J.D. Edwards 5 Delivers CRM Piece by
Piece

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J.D. Edwards 5 is a Web-enabled, integrated family of offerings that covers everything from ERP, supply chain management, and supplier relationship management to CRM, business intelligence and collaboration, and integration.

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Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over 07/29/2004 05:21 PM
fun post about the blogger breakfast

boston.com/news/blogs/dnc/2004/07/blogging_crosse.html
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Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs?

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs? 03/29/2005 07:22 AM
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?
http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm

Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I. Pacifici's LLRX.com.

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs 06/06/2004 06:45 PM
Kansas City Star (subscription),MO-9 hours ago• BlogPulse.com offers a blog search engine. Just type in keywords of interest. Or use Google to search for “blog” and keywords of interest. ...

"piece"

"piece" 03/13/2003 03:47 PM

Buy a Piece of Big Mac

Buy a Piece of Big Mac 02/12/2004 03:40 PM

You can now buy a piece of the history-making Virginia Tech Supercomputer. MacMall is selling refurbished Apple G5 computers that came from Virginia Tech. In my opinion the Apple-refurbished systems are priced a bit high at $2799, which is only $200 less than a new G5, but they do come with 1GB of memory (instead of the standard 512MB), plus a little history.

You'll recall that in June of 2003, VT made history by linking 1100 2MHz Dual Processor G5's together to create a low-cost supercomputer, known as System X (but nicknamed Big Mac.) System X made a big splash in the technical world by coming in third in the list of the Top 500 Supercomputers, and making it there at a fraction of the cost of many of the other entries on that list... System X cost a mere $7 million, compared to $250 million for the Japanese Earth Simulator Center's NEC-built 5120-CPU rig and $215 million for the Los Alamos National Laboratory's 8192-chip AlphaServer-based ASCI-Q machine.

Last month Virginia Tech took delivery of 1100 new xServe G5's to replace the original G5 towers. The xServes will benefit the project by yielding the same horsepower but only taking up 1 unit of rack space, requiring only 1000 square feet of space compared to the 3000 used by the original System X. The xServes also run cooler and have a lower power usage, which should save VT a bundle on electricity and cooling.

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Want a piece?

Want a piece? 12/03/2003 02:57 AM
CNET Asia Dec 3 2003 1:46AM ET

War and Piece:

War and Piece: 08/28/2004 10:34 PM
Here is what I was told .. Laura Rozen .. more

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Time-Piece-DB2-0.03

Time-Piece-DB2-0.03 05/12/2004 12:04 AM

My NYT Mag piece on robots

My NYT Mag piece on robots 11/15/2003 02:18 PM
I wrote a piece on home robotics for the New York Times Magazine as part of a section on Home Automation with contributions from James Gleick, Paul Boutin, Clive Thompson and others; it shipped today:

Home robots were the jet-pack future's sweetest lie: personal assistants working tirelessly and without complaint -- companions, servants and pets. They would be nimble and able, and computers would be blinking omniscient behemoths.

How wrong they were. Just as millions of users defied the first engineers' narrow visions of what a home computer could be, and figured out how to make PC's bend to their will, the cheapness and flexibility of commodity computer components are now enabling a new hobbyist revolution in home robotics. C.P.U.'s -- the brains of a PC -- are cheap like borscht, and the sensors that allow computers to see, hear, feel and smell have likewise plummeted in cost. (Pinhead digital cameras, for example, are so cheap these days that it's hard to find a pocket-size gizmo that doesn't have one built in.) All it takes to turn these pieces into a robot is packaging the brains and the senses atop a mobile platform and stirring in some clever code.

Link (Thanks, Paul)

Want a Piece of Goggle?

Want a Piece of Goggle? 01/07/2004 05:18 PM
Plus, investing in defense, and JetBlue goes pay-per-view.

Time-Piece-DB2-0.01

Time-Piece-DB2-0.01 05/11/2004 04:37 PM

this piece in Esquire

this piece in Esquire 07/30/2004 08:20 AM
What if he's right .. Tom Junod

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Everyone wants a piece of Microsoft

Everyone wants a piece of Microsoft 11/12/2003 08:02 PM
Already the media and the plaintiff bar is wondering how Google will handle Microsoft's professed interest in integrating search technology into its Windows ...

Own a piece of that Mac G5 supercomputer

Own a piece of that Mac G5 supercomputer 02/12/2004 10:03 AM
MacMall is selling off all those Mac G5s that were part of System X, Virgina Tech's supercomputing cluster. Virginia Tech isn't abandoning Apple, they're just...

BlackRock Gets a Piece of Met

BlackRock Gets a Piece of Met 08/27/2004 01:40 PM
In the asset management business, it's all about getting big.

Time-Piece-DB2-0.05

Time-Piece-DB2-0.05 06/01/2004 05:09 PM

Interesting piece

Interesting piece 08/21/2004 08:16 PM

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Microsoft: want a piece of IP?

Microsoft: want a piece of IP? 12/03/2003 04:10 AM
Silicon.com Dec 3 2003 3:45AM ET

Own a Piece of History

Own a Piece of History 01/05/2005 07:05 PM

It’s finally time. I’m ready to part with my T reo 600 now that I’m set up on the new T reo 650. My first 600 had problems that caused it to frequently reset itself. I didn’t realize this until I got the replacement 600, which is much more stable. So I’m selling the Treo 600 (for Sprint’s network), a case, and a keyboard for $250. If you’re interested in owning the device that started the infamous What’s on My Treo 600 page, email or IM me (cybrarygal on AIM).

Interesting tangent: I thought Kate’s 19–year old daughter Clare would want it for Christmas, but she says no. Even though she’s all about messaging (which is why I thought the keyboard and full IM capability would be a no-brainer for her), she says it’s too big. She’d rather have something she can easily fold over clamshell-style and fit in her pocket. She truly would rather text message using a phone dialpad than carry a larger phone. Go figure.

USA Today piece

USA Today piece 09/21/2004 02:45 PM
unimpeachable

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A Little Piece Of Home

A Little Piece Of Home 05/26/2004 01:36 PM
Dark Horse releases Star Wars: Empire #20 today, which features a solo Princess Leia story by Ron Marz, Tomás Giorello and Brad Anderson. Leia takes off with C-3PO to to to locate a new base for the Rebel Alliance, and she comes to a moon in the Ryloth system owned by an old boyfriend. The trouble is, the moon also serves as a game preserve, and Leia finds herself stranded face to face with some of the wilder inhabitants! All under a cover by Doug Wheatley. Be sure to check out the special preview for this book at Dark Horse's site.

this opinion piece

this opinion piece 06/22/2004 11:50 PM
Debra Burlingame .. Divided We Fall .. published today

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No peace for piece of art

No peace for piece of art 01/17/2004 10:42 PM
Israeli ambassador to Sweeden vandalises artwork. This is front page stuff in my part of the world and I truly hope, but doubt, that he will find himself out of work tomorrow. The question is: what was he thinking? Was it intentional? Could he have chosen to interpret the upsetting work of art in another less disturbing way?

MSNBC piece

MSNBC piece 04/13/2005 05:29 PM
This is what I wrote out, intending to jarvis it on MSNBC this afternoon. I'm not sure what I actually said. There's been a fair bit of discussion about the fact that tech conferences, for all their good intentions, haven't been able to attract enough women onto panels or into the audience. So a group of women bloggers have started a conference, called Blogher, July 30 in Santa Clara. One of the contributors to the Blogher blog, Surfette, or Lisa Stone, says that the conference is being organized as a do-ocracy - you want a topic on the schedule, then...

"News.com ran this piece "

"News.com ran this piece " 03/21/2003 09:14 AM

My Little Piece Of Google

My Little Piece Of Google 05/20/2004 09:51 PM
Forbes May 21 2004 1:47AM GMT

Time-Piece-DB2-0.02

Time-Piece-DB2-0.02 05/12/2004 12:04 AM

A piece of the action

A piece of the action 06/13/2004 11:02 PM
Personal Computer World Jun 14 2004 2:41AM GMT

"opinion piece"

"opinion piece" 05/22/2004 02:19 AM

"this piece about the need for more U.S.
government aid to tsu..."

"this piece about the need for more U.S.
government aid to tsu..." 01/01/2005 04:44 AM

Need some help with this piece of code

Need some help with this piece of code 10/02/2002 09:26 AM

"Hersh's New Yorker piece"

"Hersh's New Yorker piece" 05/07/2004 03:29 AM

A wonderful piece by Rich

A wonderful piece by Rich 12/30/2003 10:08 PM
16 Questions .. the rest

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Grok Description matches for NYT Mag piece on teen blogs
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Kelo et al. vs. City of New London et al

Kelo et al. vs. City of New London et al 06/24/2005 05:53 PM
give it away .. Kale

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"Kelo et al. vs. City of New London et
al"

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al" 06/24/2005 09:48 PM

Sauna Whack

Sauna Whack 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
My Father-in-law has invented and patented something truely unique, leading the media to call his company the Nokia of Estonia. No, its not a mobile phone or RFID thingy, its a Saunaviht, or Sauna Whisk. Sauna is a centuries-old tradition...

How Long Can YOU Sit in a Sauna?
(Reuters)

How Long Can YOU Sit in a Sauna?
(Reuters) 08/09/2004 07:54 AM
Reuters - A Finnish man and a Belarussian woman won a competition for sitting in a blisteringly hot sauna Sunday, with both nations keeping the world titles in the bizarre endurance test.

Finn and Belarussian win sauna contest
(Reuters)

Finn and Belarussian win sauna contest
(Reuters) 08/08/2004 03:43 PM
Reuters - A Finnish man and a Belarussian woman have won a competition for sitting in a blisteringly hot sauna, with both nations keeping the world titles in the bizarre endurance test.

Boiler Kills on Impact After Sauna
Launch (Reuters)

Boiler Kills on Impact After Sauna
Launch (Reuters) 09/13/2004 09:04 AM
Reuters - A boiler that exploded at a Chinese sauna sailed over a six-story building and landed on an old man crossing the road, Xinhua news agency said.

Finnish Fun

Finnish Fun 05/19/2004 01:13 PM
Sorry, 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 PM
Sain 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 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 AM
Finland 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.

"review (in Finnish)"

"review (in Finnish)" 07/05/2004 09:37 AM

W3C Launches Finnish Office

W3C Launches Finnish Office 10/10/2002 09:57 AM
10 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]

Finnish WISPs Roam

Finnish WISPs Roam 11/11/2003 12:59 PM
From 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....

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

Obscure Finnish joke

Obscure Finnish joke 02/01/2005 09:48 PM
Siinä tulevaisuus. :D

Almost a Finnish knit bl0g

Almost a Finnish knit bl0g 06/06/2005 12:11 AM
Blogitutkimus 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 chainsaw politics

Finnish chainsaw politics 04/19/2005 04:27 AM
I 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...)

Stupid Finnish poetry

Stupid Finnish poetry 03/06/2004 02:03 AM

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.

Finnish bl0ggers awarded

Finnish bl0ggers awarded 03/31/2005 06:54 AM
From Yle 24:

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!

Low stakes Finnish Hold 'Em

Low stakes Finnish Hold 'Em 03/31/2005 07:24 PM

After 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 Blog Awards

Finnish Blog Awards 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
Jaakko 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.

HP to manage IT for Finnish energy giant

HP to manage IT for Finnish energy giant 08/23/2004 10:37 AM
Finnish 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 bl0g list bought

Finnish bl0g list bought 04/07/2005 02:33 AM
Well, well, well... The Finnish blog world just got a tad more interesting: A Finnish VC company just bought blogilista.fi, the master list of Finnish blogs (which also functions as a simple web-based aggregator as well). Congrats to all involved! I hope this means that their RSS parser would finally start working properly, instead of just doing really dumb byte comparisons. ;-)

However, what I find to be far more interesting is that Typepad (from Six Apart, the worlds largest blogging company) is reaching its tendrils into Finland now: first with Typepad Finland and now with partnership to blogilista.fi. Through the latter they get much needed publicity and visibility in Finland - after all, most Finnish bloggers seem to use Blogger these days. Typepad will have to compete against Vuodatus.net, though. Having tried both, I have to say that I prefer Vuodatus for their ease of use while still doing everything that's necessary.

I do find it interesting though that Typepad would partner with an aggregation service...

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. :)

Finnish bl0gging service open

Finnish bl0gging service open 02/01/2005 09:47 PM
Vuodatus.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?)

Finnish police admits mistake

Finnish police admits mistake 03/14/2005 06:21 PM
Jani 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.)

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out of army

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