Riot in Helsinki »

We had our little riot here in Helsinki too. At Wappu, troublemakers who wanted to keep the old “Makasiinit” from getting teared down decided to (duh) burn the place and obstruct the fire brigade from putting out the fire.
Samuli Ikäheimo has some excellent pictures.

The Road Back Home »

images on flickr…
It’s been nearly a week since i returned home, and i’m slowly starting to feel like this is how things should be — for now Coming home didn’t go exactly as planned, of course. On wednesday, i finally took the stuff that didn’t fit into my bags in a nice huge box [...]

My proprietary voice »

A few weeks ago, i –who try to be an evangelist for the contrary– gave in to proprietary software. I installed Skype. One driver was that a Skype client exists on Linux (my borrowed laptop runs Mepis). But i did feel dirty and ashamed. I’ve drummed for H.323 and SIP –we [...]

Lahteen julkinen wifiwerkko »

Kiva kiva! Lahteen ollaan suunnittelemassa julkista langatonta verkkoa. Siinä kotikaupunkini Helsinki ja Dili jäävät pahasti jälkeen; Dili ymmärrettävistä syistä ja Helsinki muista syistä Ei siinä mitään: Dilissä on itse asiassa suurehko määrä wifitukiasemia, ainakin bruttokansantuotteeseen nähden, joskaan en ole vielä käynyt “warwalkilla” tääll&aum; PDA kädessä. Lahdesta taas tulee mielenkiintoinen mesta kun yhtäkkiä PDA muuttuu [...]

Greetings from Dili »

Hello, All! UN IT Manager “Mister Robin” here! SSH is hopelesly slow from here, so updating my blog will be a bit slow. Maybe now would finally be the time to implement a web service interface to my blog engine. Or maybe not.
Anyways, i finally made my way to the other side of the globe. [...]