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Jeesus, Ei haihdu kuvasi pois

I have a job interview today. It's at a restaurant.

I feel bored. The sun is shining so I guess it's spring tiredness.

Saw a movie yesterday. It's name was some... park. Seven Oscar nominations; I bet they've replaced the Oscar committee with monkeys or something.

Mon 2002-04-29 11:26 in diary 2 comments #link

Tired all day

Bought The World According to Garp from a local old books store for about 3 euros. It looks brand new. I've read some 20 of the first pages. It's nice.

I've noticed that if I listen to music in the morning, and then I stop some song in the middle, I will have that song in my head for all day, until I come home and finish the song. That's when I get it out of my head. Today's song was (NP:) Catatonia - She's a millionaire.

Took my cell phone for a repair. They first took it for 3 hours and gave it back to me. They'd fixed the old problems but then, there were new ones. They took the phone again and said it would be back in one and a half weeks. They gave me a Nokia 3210 for that time. Then I sent some application form to Club Nokia so that next time I visit that repair shop it'll be easier for them to find me a loaner phone to use. Or something.

I got a job interview of some kind for monday.

Fri 2002-04-26 17:00 in diary 2 comments #link

Anxiety

[ICQ] pilpi(20:38 PM) :

go around the globe
walk in empty circles
drop your head in a cannoon
let the powder burn

ka-boom it says when it flies through the roof of the circus
ka-boom and you see your hair and your ears flying in the sky
blowing into thousand pieces

just walk in empty circles
the emptiness will be filled
with your head, falling from the skies

Wed 2002-04-24 20:40 in diary No comments #link

The sun is shining yes?

Tired.
Got movable type installed and planning to make the switch, at least for some of my blogs. (such as this one). I'll just have to make sure it'll create xHTML compliant output.

Met Jenni today for the first time in half a year - the other Jenni that has been living in Kangasniemi until now and now lives in Tampere.

My roommate locked me out of my room today but as he, Alex (name has been replaced) asked me not to mention his name in my journal I think I'm not going to tell anything else about it in this blog, either.

I have a philosophy exam tomorrow. Awgh.

Wed 2002-04-24 19:10 in diary No comments #link

Celebrate

Currently I'm a bit too tired to really write anything.

Blogger started to support Mozilla 1.0 release candidate 1. Yahoo. It doesn't support automatically inserting links, though.

It sucks that these days you just can't even say yahoo anymore without it associating in your head to somewhere it really shouldn't.

Installing Movable Type - been trying for a couple of days now.

Clinging on to Jesus.

Tue 2002-04-23 19:30 in diary No comments #link

A blessed day

Everything has gone just well today. Thank you Jesus.

I have not much more to say, perhaps because I'm dead tired.

The photo of the day ... from some part of Tampere

Tue 2002-04-23 00:02 in diary No comments #link

The end of Weekend

I was at a birthday party yesterday. Anni, my high school "olds' dances" dance partner, turned 20. Yesterday was the first time I actually realized she was older than I. There were many different kinds of people and it was nice - partially thanks to alcohol, kind of sadly.

At 0:30 a.m. Juha called me; he said he and Jere were cruising around the city and asked whether I would like to join them for a coffee at a nearby gas station. I did. After that we went, the three of us, to a local beach and told stupid IT jokes, like "Press any key to continue or any other key to quit" and aphorisms, like "Death settles all sleep debts" (when Jere told it in Finnish it worked much better) ... It was fun.

Planning to go roller skating.

Sun 2002-04-21 20:06 in diary 2 comments #link

Go 'round

At my mother's (Vantaa). Writing job applications. Or actually writing just one of them. Going to Anni's birthday party tonight and hoping to be social. Hoping to find a common tune with people quite different than me. Going to Helsinki now, to see Emil.

When I woke up in the morning I was told that we were going to a flea market. My investments: a Coca-Cola Yo-yo, .50 euros; a fluffy, brightly coloured "bear", 1,5 euros; a lunch bread with cheese and ham plus a Jaffa orange drink, 4,5 euros.

Sat 2002-04-20 13:31 in diary 6 comments #link

Hazy

Still dead tired, been sleepwalking all day. Wonder if I'm sick?
I'm leaving for Helsinki now, coming back on Sunday. I probably won't be capable of reading my e-mail before coming back.

Fri 2002-04-19 15:50 in diary No comments #link

Wake me up and tell me when it's weekend

I'm dead tired. Returned the bloody journalism essay today, so at least got rid of that. I was supposed to wake up at something like eleven since I went to sleep at 4 am but for some reason I woke up automatically at like 9.30. Some 10 minutes after that my phone rings. It's a workforce rental company's (or whatever you call them) representative... she asks me whether this is a bad time to call and I, half asleep, try to sound very perky and tell her that it's absolutely not a bad time. She asks me some questions and it seems to go well (I bet those people are trained to sound so lively and happy-go-lucky as they do) - until she asks me one of those absurd questions: "how do you see yourself as an employee?".

After all, I manage to answer somewhat reasonably after stuttering for a while.

Philosophy lessons pass me by quickly although I'm sooo hungry. Then I return the journalism essay and feel happy.

Later in the day I call another company I've sent a job application to. They tell me they've chosen their applicants already. Well I didn't want that job anyway. (Right? Right.)

Got the pilpi.tk domain. Wonder why.

Thu 2002-04-18 18:04 in diary No comments #link

Gettin' personal and all that

Plan for tonight: read a chapter of a book of journalism, write a summary of the text, be happy to return the #"%! thing tomorrow since it should have been returned one and a half weeks ago.

Change of plans: buy a special sponge (Pata-Pata) to wash the overwhelmingly dirty oven. Do not finish before Bogdan and Ada (two of the three exchange students) get home. Chat with them until midnight about anything and everything.

Also wrote some text about my beliefs, since as a child of God I have the duty of not keeping my mouth shut (thanks to Kaisa for that sentence). Studied and learned some things about Java object-oriented programming.

Later chatted with Lucian, as well. Soooo busy =).

Happy about the amount of comments I get on my postings; last 9 postings got an avarage of 2.2 comments per message.

Wed 2002-04-17 00:32 in diary No comments #link

Praise

Jesus was way cool

Tell me what you think. Is this blasphemy or not? I found it on an atheist site, but...

Mon 2002-04-15 11:49 in diary No comments #link

Just tired and clinging on to God

NP: Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

Weekend: Riding Mira's (Katri's little sister) bicycle. Roller skating. Talking, wondering why are my body parts transforming. Stomach aching. Back aching. Hugging. Reading the Bible with non-religious people. Lying around. Watching the telly. Eating food so delicious I haven't eaten in a long while. Wok, chicken, pizza, and so on. Sleeping at nights, getting up relatively early. Listening some materialist babble. Helping someone get to the bus station. Noticing that the girl sitting in front of me in the bus is reading the Bible, peeking to find out which part of the Big Book is she reading.

Sun 2002-04-14 20:18 in diary No comments #link

The truth is out where?

Matrix - the pic of the day - Samuel and me during the Quiet Action at Ryttylä.

Photo taken, published and copyright by Kimmo Korpela

Fri 2002-04-12 17:45 in diary No comments #link

He's so high above me

You know who I mean by Him.

I've been wondering... back in the early days of the Internet I read from some Internet for beginners -book that there used to be such anonymous e-mail servers to which you could send your e-mail. The server would then generate a reply-to -address for that particular message (something like aeX32793874@anonserver.com), set the reply-to field of the message to that generated address and finally, parse the actual recipient's address from the message and send the message. The recipient would have "no way of knowing" (in the Internet world things usually can be found out ultimately, the job can only be made very difficult) who sent the message, but would be able to answer to the message through the generated reply-to address.

Since then, I haven't heard of such servers. In my opinion such service would be very useful. It'd be quite popular I think - maybe it could be funded by text ads in the messages themselves?

Naturally, you could use Hotmail or some other free email-service provider through a stealth internet connection but that's hardly an elegant solution.

I've been eating potatoes and hulled grain/rye sausage (direct translation, don't know if it can actually be understood =). Yesterday, I bought a microwave for some 65 euros and a Louis Armstrong CD for 2 euros. Cheap, me thinks.

Going to spend the weekend at Katri's, in Lahti.

Fri 2002-04-12 16:38 in diary 2 comments #link

Can't stop the rock

NP: Leevi and the Leavings - Matkalla Motowniin

This song perfectly describes my mood right now. No lyrics available. Or anyway I couldn't find them quickly enough.

Thu 2002-04-11 11:11 in diary 3 comments #link

Just another day in paradise

Other than criticizing the homotsygotes out of the rest of the web and blowing my brain up in a Java basics exam, the day's been pretty much the same old.

Wed 2002-04-10 18:25 in diary 2 comments #link

Happy-happy micro\$off land?

Another proof or Micro$off trying to take over the world

I am seriously trying to switch from IE6 to Mozilla (currently version 0.99). It seriously pisses me off that an otherwise great service such as Blogger supports the following, and only the following, browsers: IE4 (?), IE5, IE6. Get a grip! They are working on it, though.

Wed 2002-04-10 18:12 in diary No comments #link

WeBlogs for retards

README / A blogger's disclaimer

Found a text someone has written to create standard instructions for blog readers. The idea seems well at first, but I don't feel I have the right to choose my readers, nor do I want to limit the subjects people contact me on. Moreover, why should there be instructions on reading some particular type of text? It's a public diary, plain and simple.

There is another reason, as well, for me to not like the page. Spark, the writer of the document has made resizing fonts in the browser impossible, probably by defining the font size in pixels in her CSS (more about this subject here. Sooo annoying.)

Spark does make a couple of good points, though. I will now summarize them. First: if you read a blog on a regular basis (please, anyone? =), it does *not* mean that you know (everything about) the writer - even though the writer of the blog her/himself had absolutely nothing to hide. For example, usually the writer has friends, who have secrets, which are told to the writer and s/he's forced to refrain from telling those things. This is because, if for no other reason (meaning that the writer is a bastard who knows of no morality), those friends (who didn't mean something to be told to the whole world) might read the blog. And still, it's completely impossible to show who you are, to expose the whole of your person to someone who cannot see the expressions on your face and so on. Me thinks.

Second, obviously contrary to the popular belief, I would like to know of all the people that I know IRL who read my blog. And if someone didn't already know, I really really really like getting feedback, possibly constructive (all messages containing only curse words and insults will also be welcomed, though). If possible, use the blog commenting system or the guestbook.

Third, I do think basic HTML can be stolen (from my site anyway) since it usually cannot contain anything that's not listed in the standards (or on the web browser manufacturer's site) anyway. Most people learn their HTML that way, too. I will not appreciate it, though, if someone takes my graphics/colours/scripts/content (or anything other than basic HTML/CSS code) without permission. You're also free to contact me if you need help with your websites. Or if you need help with something else - for example want to talk about achieving personal Faith. Or if you just want to chat. Note that I'm not making a promise to answer. I probably will, though. About copyrights

I don't like direct linking to images, either. About preeeetty much everything that Spark says I disagree - I just think she's being way too strict.

It says in her text: "Don't be a psycho stalker." ... *giggles* - she is right, though.

Oh yeah, this was supposed to be a summary. Oops.
*A couple of minutes later: I guess spark isn't actually the writer's name but the name of her directory site. Sorry for that.*

Wed 2002-04-10 17:26 in diary No comments #link

Overslept

NP: Stephan Sharp - Dancing in the Rain

I've had this song for ages, but I had never before realized that it actually was gospel. I was smiling quietly for a while after I heard those words about Christ.

I overslept, so I missed some exercise lessons. Luckily I was allowed to return the exercises afterwards by email.

Easter - Jesus was a rebellion - not an easter (chocolate) bunny -loesje.fi (in Finnish, Adobe Acrobat PDF)

Tue 2002-04-09 12:41 in diary No comments #link

sydän jäätää huurteeseen

I'm totally tired. Got four pages written yesterday until 4 am and today from 10 am to two thirty pm.

Who cares. I would have returned my essay but the email from me to myself didn't get delivered so that I could've printed it at school. Got some extra time, so I'm just going to forget the whole thing for now. The Romanian people living with me are just adorable. I'm going to program some Java now.

NP: Miljoonasade - poistui kotoaan

Mon 2002-04-08 19:52 in diary No comments #link

der Streß

NP: CMX - Surumurhaaja

Writing a journalism essay for tomorrow. Two paragraphs done. Funnn.

Sun 2002-04-07 20:05 in diary No comments #link

R0n, huh?

The following is a review for a project called The Peer-to-Peer Review Project. The site being reviewed can be found here.

I enter this site on my Mozilla 0.99 which tends to be a little picky about bad HTML. This site seems to open perfectly. I test it on IE6, and it looks *exactly* the same (except for some space between the lines. Whatever). Impressive. But then I come to think: "Hey, isn't this a ready-made blogger template?"

So I come to the conclusion that perhaps the actual content is the main point about this site.

I start to read, an entry titled "poetry" is the topmost one. "Is this a poetry site?". After the first poem I'm feeling positive. I like it.

The second entry is a quote: "You start with nothing, you will end with nothing." - hey, that's true I think. Though I as a Christian don't exactly buy it. It's beautiful though.

The next entries are about the writer's school work. I have no idea what is he talking about. Even the title makes me confused:
"A Maths MSG:3.5? Forget it." I figure he must be an American, bacause American websites in general seem to have no idea that there is the rest of the world, as well.

Then, another poem. Love it too. I'm going to add this site to my links list. Even though he must be an American (doesn't say), the site consists of the blog and the blog only, and he obviously doesn't share my beliefs.

r0n's site can be found here.

Later: *ashamed* - read the last entry in the blog and found our that r0n is from Singapore. Still he doesn't explain his school environment thoroughly enough, I think. The explanation about who he is should be a static part of the page rather than a blog entry of it's own - no one's going to find that info there unless lucky (like me).

Sun 2002-04-07 00:37 in diary No comments #link

Theft

http://www.webspiffy.com/matt/

If you look at this very quickly (before the fella decides to update his blog) you'll see some aforisms/thought's I'll soon be stealing for the aforism randomizer at the very top of this page.

Sat 2002-04-06 19:00 in diary 4 comments #link

Nostalgy

An old friend, Mikko visited me. He was going to go to Norway with his rather interesting "trailer". I had last met him a couple of years ago so it was nice to chitchat all kinds of things.

I've gotten to meet those exchange students and they seem *soooo* nice.

malice.zip (140 KB)
A few very interesting applications in Finnish, by a fella called MaliXeanz a.k.a. Malice a.k.a. Ankka a.k.a. Tapio. May cause severe damage in your brain. see:
MSMTM.EXE
MikäSaaMinkäTekemäänMitä
TXTSMS.EXE
An app for designing SMS short
messaging service text messages.

Sat 2002-04-06 18:45 in diary No comments #link

Pretty foreigners

I was supposed to tell you about the exchange students who moved yesterday into this "cell appartment", next to my room. Nothing special yet, they're getting used to living here. We chatted about our countries until something like midnight last night.

Jenni has a party today. So has Monsu, my former roommate.

The mess of the day

Fri 2002-04-05 14:16 in diary No comments #link

Now how sunny is that?

That pic there actually always shows the current weather in Tampere.

Useful? Nope.

So yeah, I am pretending to be bored.

Fri 2002-04-05 13:49 in diary No comments #link

Christ versus the rest of the world?

The following is a reply to Blue Wolf, who commented on a posting of mine about Jesus taking over my life and me being afraid to lose friends because of it.

Thank you for talking to me in plain English. And thank you for the proper translation, the ones I found were kind of clumsy. I was aggressive because I really did not see your point, so I'm sorry.

I said: I'm driving all my non-religious friends away. Like I care... well, I do. How can they NOT believe?
and
Actually I'm not losing my friends. I'm just contemplating the situation where I would. And if I lose them for Jesus, they're not worth it anyway.

You are right, in a way - taken away from the context of my life I can easily understand what you're after, claiming that what I said was racist or bigotry.

Sadly, or happily, it isn't that simple. I admit that my text may be misguiding (since I don't think straight all the time while writing in excitement). In any case, I will never be the one to end a friendship because of my relationship with Christ, or because of someone else doesn't have a relationship with Him. I said that they wouldn't be worth it because at the bottom of my heart I knew I wouldn't lose any friends. It does sound a bit racist, I know, but I feel you're thinking in reverse. The point was actually very much the opposite - if my friends abandon me because of my Faith, they're abandoning me for wrong reasons and I don't think they could then have really cared for me anyway.

A Christian is told to love anyone regardless of their beliefs or anything like that. I still was something of an agnostic 10 months ago so I can see your point of view - it's just not mine anymore.

Christianity is all about love, at the end of the day. But it doesn't stop me from wondering *why* don't they try to find Life, because it's all becoming more and more obvious to me. I do know the dilemmas of finding personal Faith and Saviour though, I think maybe too well, so it's perhaps a bit pointless to wonder such.

I hope this answers your claims in some fashion. I put this explanation on display as I'm pretty sure you're not the only one to have misunderstood - the other ones have just made their conclusions in silence.

So thank you. A fair conversation is always welcome.

Fri 2002-04-05 01:18 in diary No comments #link

Oh my.

I just got 2 Romanian roommates.
I am *so* excited.... more later...

Thu 2002-04-04 20:46 in diary No comments #link

sekaisin

Registered the URI Jeesukseen.se8.org from se8.org. I bet it should have been Jeesuksesta, but hey, I'm se8.

If you don't speak Finnish, you definitely won't get the paragraph above. If you do speak Finnish, it might still take some time... (It did for me.)

Got a phone call from .kraka. I had written a messy message in their guestbook 15 minutes earlier and they basically asked me what was it that I wanted from them. =) No, it was all smiling phone call, though they couldn't tell me when are they going to publish their first LP. Talk about great customer service or something, imagine some huge band like 22 Pistepirkko replying to every fan mail that quickly. Yes I'm being ironic.

I want to have a new Bible but I cannot afford to spend some 450 former Finn marks on it, since I want just a certain "model" (a big one with a zipper and an index on the side). No I don't know how much is it in euros, and frankly, I don't care enough to turn my brain on.

Yesterday I was in a Pentacostal meeting at Seinäjoki with Soile (and with some folks previously unknown to me). The Holy spirit was really strong though I really felt more like crouching in some corner and just praying quietly by myself. People were falling to the ground and speaking (and singing) in tongues. I've never seen someone fall to the ground before.

After the meeting spent the rest of the night praying and talking with Soile. Somewhat confusing, though comforting. Thank you Soile, *so* much.

Thu 2002-04-04 12:35 in diary No comments #link

The Bible

I've started to study the Bible according to a study plan sent to me by Piplia. If you wish to follow the same plan as I, follow the link (in Finnish only, sorry).
This morning I studied the Psalms one to seven.

I'm going to attend to a Christian meeting in Seinäjoki today. I'm also going to meet Soile for the first time. I'm excited.

All the links will open in a new window. All the English Bible links will open in the same window of their own, as will the Finnish Bible links.

In English: Psalm 1 | Psalm 2 | Psalm 3 | Psalm 4 | Psalm 5 | Psalm 6 | Psalm 7

Suomeksi: Psalmit

Wed 2002-04-03 09:58 in diary 6 comments #link

Uih!

I have been saying to everyone today how I'm happy that I fond the lord and found him in style...! Ouch... that almost sounds like something bad but I guess it doesn't.

Anyway, as I was telling everyone about it I got this funny feeling, like our Lord was looking straight into my eyes and it sooo touched me so I had to tell you about it.

I'm driving all my non-religious friends away. Like I care... well, I do. How can they NOT believe?

Ok I'll just shut up now.

Tue 2002-04-02 22:24 in diary 8 comments #link

Frightened children

I guess I've totally freaked some of my readers out with the things I've said aout Jesus Christ... it's just hard to be quiet when you're so excited about something. Don't get me wrong - if you haven't found Mercy, I'm not going to break the door to your house and tell you to start believing (because, for one, forcing never helps with these things...). I haven't became any madman. . . . well, alright I have ;-) I'm crazy for God. And naturally, if I'm told from way above to go talk to someone about Life, I will.

Tue 2002-04-02 13:29 in diary 4 comments #link

Blogsnob rulez ok.

Statistics for Blogsnob:

Total Impressions: 687 (# of ads displayed on your site)
Total Clicks In: 43
Total Clicks Out: 37
Total Ad Impressions: 1611 (# of times your ad was placed on other sites)

Blogsnob is the little box almost at the top of my blogger page, on the right where it says BS with small letters. I just don't understand how have I gotten so many impressions though so "few" ads have been displayed on my site.

My ad texts:

• Jesus.Jesus.Jesus.Jesus. Jesus.Jesus.Jes
• No longer will I walk alone in the dark.
• Nothing.thingnothing here!NOOO! Screw u.

I'd call this successful marketing =).

Tue 2002-04-02 01:30 in diary 1 comment #link

Amazing grace

I still am somehow incapable of understanding all the relief that's filling me every single moment.

Right now, I'm simply incapable of even considering that my faith for Jesus would just be some kind of a psychological phenomenon.

I just feel so blessed and will go to sleep now. I'll study the prayer requests from ERR (update 2007: ERR's current address) first, though.

Tue 2002-04-02 01:22 in diary No comments #link

Request

Someone should make a comparison of all the blogging tools in the web. Here are a couple of them to get you started:

http://directory.google.com
/Top/Arts/Online_Writing/Journals/Resources/Hosts/

Mon 2002-04-01 22:47 in diary No comments #link