Testing Embedding
Posted in Motivation, meta, tagged BBC, Mars, Yeasayer on Tuesday 2008.06.10 | 1 Comment »
Images from BBC, music from Yeasayer, AFAIK. I’m just linking to it. Enjoy.
Archive for the ‘meta’ Category
Freefall
Posted in meta, tagged freefall, web comic on Thursday 2008.05.15 | No Comments »
I’m a long time reader of this excellent web comic, freefall. It’s actually the only one I read. It’s quite clever and funny, although often quite cheesy and finger-pointing too. I keep coming back to it. It’s clear the writer has good technical and scientific knowledge and weaves that in with the comical happenings. And there’s a bigger [...]
Sigh
Posted in Motivation, meta, tagged bad software, microsoft word, Navelgazing, wordpress, WYSIWYG on Friday 2008.05.09 | No Comments »
EDIT: Thought I lost a post I wrote but found it in an unexpected place instead! So I’m cancelling this rant about autosave not working and will finish that post instead.
[rant was here but is not worth reading]
A Possible Effect of Global Warming
Posted in Climate, Science, meta, tagged development, glacial isostatic adjustment, global warming, ground rising, Helsinki, ice age, postglacial rebound, sea level, zoning on Wednesday 2008.04.23 | 1 Comment »
Michael Tobis has discussion on sea level rise. Everybody should probably know how the IPCC sea level estimate doesn’t include ice sheet dynamics and thus is open at the top end of the scale.
I remember here in Helsinki a long time city official telling how he organized lectures on global warming around 1989 and drove [...]
Danske Bank
Posted in Navelgazing, meta, tagged danske bank, internet banking, sampo, web 2.0 on Saturday 2008.03.29 | No Comments »
There’s a Finnish bank called Sampo (Previously called Leonia, previously Postipankki) that has about a million customers. It was sold to danish Danske Bank some time ago. They did a renewal of the online account services during easter. It was a massive failure (like these things usually are).
Practically everybody in Finland uses their bank’s online [...]
Various things
Posted in RLV:s, meta, tagged snow, space access on Monday 2008.03.24 | No Comments »
I changed the blog title picture. Will see what I invent next, eh. Was out with a friend whose camera I used.
Also, there was the first snow this winter that stayed more than 24 hours. As well as some sunshine.
The sea hasn’t frozen over really at all this year. There are just some thin ice platelets melancholically clacking together near the shores. Been seing geese (Branta canadensis), swans (Cygnus cygnus) and other waterfowl like Bucephala clangula who didn’t bother leaving for winter. (EDIT: Also, Opera’s [...]
Busy For A While
Posted in meta on Monday 2008.01.28 | No Comments »
… So I’m trying not to post!
I found the option to take moderation out, so I’m relying on the automatic spam detection system now. At last the annoying moderation delay with the comments should be gone, sorry that it took so long…
The Unix-Haters Handbook
Posted in meta, tagged linux, unix, user interface on Wednesday 2008.01.23 | No Comments »
Been readin’ it again a little. It’s freely available as pdf from the net. It’s remarkable how so many people have similar problems with UNIX (and with Linux nowadays of course). I know my way around but am no expert by any means, and it’s often extremely frustrating when you’re trying to achieve some pretty [...]
