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Christmas: gone

My blogging software was broken for a while; pilpi.net host, my ISP, has been doing some upgrading.

Maiju and Juha got engaged, and the wedding is said to be in early summer.

It's a funny thing, many of the friends around me are finding loves of their lives. (Admittedly, to me a few weeks is easily seen as a lifetime, but that's besides the point.) I'm actually still surprised of the fact that I'm actually happy for all of them. People kissing/being adooo-orably cute in public never makes me want to puke, almost the opposite (whatever that is).

I've spent some more time with Juha, talking about Faith, about life, and everything in between.

I've played a lot of cards with Anna-Maria, my lil' sister, and talked about some matters which, in my opinion, make a difference.

I visited Lahti, and spent a couple of days with Katri and her beloved family. Forgot her Christmas present to Helsinki, though, and I'll probably lose it before I'll see her again ;/.

I've gotten to know my father better. He has this 30-year old Mercedes-Benz which he is renovating, and today I was with him at the garage, his private kingdom.

After the previous entry I saw with Riitta, as thought, the movie L'adversaire (see previous entry), which quite frankly sucked (or perhaps I'm just not quite movie freak enough).

After that there was a break seeing movies but yesterday I saw Lord of The Rings: Two Towers, and loved it. It had all the elements.

Shortly after writing the previous entry TseiTsei enlightened me about the character set thingy. The answer: since a character set has been specified, there is no need to convert characters which are a part of the character set, into HTML entities. More about this on J. Korpela's site.

Just found a site (through a link from J. Korpela's site), which has archived the web in many of its states, even many of the front pages of pilpi.net (too bad there are no images).

Yesterday I finally ordered a digital camera, the HP PhotoSmart 850. I'm won't have it in my hands before a few weeks have passed, though (bought 128 MB of SanDisk Secure Digital memory for it already, though). The choice of camera was a compromise in a sense or two, but I don't think I'm going to be disappointed in the long run. Dpreview is a great site.

During the holiday I also read two books; the other one was Esa Saarinen's Muodonmuutos (Finnish for "a change in form"), and the other one, an introduction on a contemporary artist's work, had lots of thoughts worth studying again... If only I could remember his name. Anyway, he currently has works on display at Kiasma, the museum of contemporary arts in Helsinki.

My long-term memory isn't one of the greatest ones, so the things I've described are in no particular (not in chronological, anyway) order, and I might have forgotten some things of utter importance. You might want to blame me or my memory, or just be happy and realize that those things were too valuable to be written on a page in such a site as mine, anyway ;).

A conclusion: I feel I've learned a lot during this holiday, thanks to all things described. It's been a wonderful holiday, and I'm hugely grateful to God, and to all you people. I will spend New Year in Ryttylä, in a Christian happening called Haaste (Finnish for "Challenge") - and meet at least Malla, Kaisa and Tommy (and hopefully the rest of the crew, too). Maybe, just maybe will the year 2003 turn a new leaf, in some sense. (I'll be back in Tampere on January 1st if nothing surpricing happens.

Thank you Jesus Christ, our Lord. I hope it's the direction you intended.

Sun 2002-12-29 00:15 in diary No comments #link

new addiction

Mommy, look, I've got a brand new one!

Sat 2002-12-21 01:22 in links 3 comments #link

the return of the great

Location: Vantaa
Mood: Confused

It's been a while since I've felt like doing ... this.

Writing. To you, the world. To be completely honest, I still don't but I don't want to keep my life entirely unreported either.

Let's see, the last time I wrote was on Saturday. After that I've bought a lot of christmas presents, celebrated both of my siblings' (Emil, Dec. 16 and Anna-Maria, Dec. 17) birthdays. Yesterday evening went out with Juha, my long-term friend who's been around since seventh grade (which was something like 1995). We walked around Helsinki for several hours and solved most of the world's problems, in theory. Unfortunately our memories had been wiped after a night's sleep so the world will have to wait for being rescued a little longer.

Also chatted some while on the phone with Jennitys and Irina. I've also been playing a lot of cards with Anna-Maria. Some time was spent with Emil, too.

I also saw the movie Y tu mamá también (Ja äitiäs kans) on Wednesday. Tomorrow I'll probably go see L' Adversaire (Valhe) with Riitta, whom I last saw in the summer.

I just hate the fact that I need to write HTML entities by hand. Or actually, the page does validate even if I don't HTML encode ä's as ä's ... because I have declared the character set. So I don't need to convert all ä's into ä's then? What's the deal? What about if I use a computer/OS which uses a different character encoding? Please help the confused little me.

Confused.

Fri 2002-12-20 20:09 in diary No comments #link

silent stupid boy

Location: Vantaa, Finland
Mood: Annoyed

I am sick and tired of being so timid.
I've been doing nothing all day, except for installing irssi in my home directory on the Tampere university unix server. I'm proud of myself, I've never installed/compiled anything on a unix machine before, except for my own little apps.
Christmas is coming. I'm not feeling good at all but not that bad, either. Please /query me on irc. I'd like to chat with just about anyone.

Sat 2002-12-14 18:38 in diary No comments #link

Just happy.

I got a pair for my data structures work. I'm happy about that.
It's late and I still haven't packed. I'm going to Helsinki tomorrow.

I'm usually happy more often in the night.

Fri 2002-12-13 03:48 in diary No comments #link

riepu

palelen nurkassa. tärisen. irvistän luojalleni.
se huutaa: ihminen, minut hylkäsit!
katson kiertäen silmiin, kirkkaimpiin
ei voi ihmislapsi olla epäilemättä uskoaan
ei rakastamatta itseään, rumaa ja epätäydellistä
minä olen, minä räiskyn! et siksi minua rakasta
tämän ihmislapsen kapina

Thu 2002-12-12 19:47 in runot No comments #link

paljasta (kaikki)

1, 2

Today I've seen two sites describing incredibly beautiful individuals, and I'm just struggling to break free from my fears now that I don't have any excuses anymore.

Thu 2002-12-12 14:38 in diary No comments #link

Morsian itkee ja sulhanen nauraa

Olympus 700 Ultra Zoom (user comments)

This is probably the digital camera I'm going to try to get. It's darn expensive though so if you think this is not the camera I should get, please tell me. I've read most of the user comments on dpreview.com, though.

Been feeling awfully depressed most of the day, but at the moment, when it comes to all that's happened, it seems to have been quite a good day. My stomach disease seems to be getting better after 4 days.

Thu 2002-12-12 02:35 in diary No comments #link

SickBulb

Running out of places to hide for cover. Running out of strength. Nothing special. Promised Jenni to see her at Paapan Kapakka, a music pub (or something) in the centre of Tampere. Not sure whether I'm going to see a doctor tomorrow, my stomach has something wrong with it. Thoughts of loneliness. Dreaming about a couple of people, just because it's a habit. I now have plans for the new year, a Christian happening in Ryttylä (Riihimäki). It'll soon be a year since I moved into my own flat. Doesn't feel like it.

Ought to buy presents.

Wed 2002-12-11 17:08 in diary No comments #link

That loves his children

Should I call myself lazy? I've not accomplished much. I've been a bit ill but I think I've caused it pretty much directly myself.

I've thought about life, about what I'm going to do with it, and realized a bunch of things. Too bad I can't really tell you more about it since it's mostly buried somewhere in my subconcience, whatever that means. Also been having a debate of a sort with an atheist. Woo hoo.

Radiohead rocks. I just love melancholic music.

I only have one or two exams left, then I'll head for Helsinki. Living alone has its benefits, but living with my family means, for me, in the end, having more time to do something useful, or at least feeling physically and mentally more healthy.

I'm not such a stable person when I have no one to look after and no one to look after me.

Mon 2002-12-09 01:13 in diary 1 comment #link

In dependence

pilpi (0:07 AM) :
niisiis olin eilen yhes itsenäisyyspäivänvastaanotos.
äwww.
into ei oikee riitä kirjottaa tommosii blogiin.
Soile (0:08 AM) :
höö. (ihan pakko sanoa "höö")
mitäs siel?
pilpi (0:09 AM) :
trivial pursuit, alias, yleistä häröilyä, sosialisointia, suurimmaksi osaksi #pullopeli:n (joka on siis #pulloilun ja #vapaapullon seuraaja) porukan kanssa. http://pullopeli.pilpi.net
pilpi (0:09 AM) :
joo ja sit naurettiin väestöliiton "sexual" -pelille ... "tuleeko suutelemisesta raskaaksi", jne.

That is, Olemus and Vyyhti held an independence day party on Friday, and I was there.

Sun 2002-12-08 00:24 in diary No comments #link

About the meaning of Life

http://www.thekristo.com

Fri 2002-12-06 12:53 in links No comments #link

Life is... a collection of states of agony

As I again get blocked in some dark state of the mind, nothing upsets me more than realizing that my pain would probably be nothing for the most of the world, as I'm just a pampered little brat.

Thanks. I just had to say that although I think I've expressed similar things quite a few times in this blog.

Independence day for Finland. Well, at least I won't need to have a bad concience for staying home today.

Fri 2002-12-06 12:12 in diary No comments #link

#pullopeli web site

#pullopeli (in Finnish)

Tonight we discussed at #pullopeli whether or not the channel should have a web presence. Then we discussed whether or not we should inform people about the fact that #pullopeli indeed is a predecessor of #iepullo, #pulloilu and #vapaapullo, among others. I finally gave up. I made the "site" source, consisting of one html page (actually constructed of 3 php files). Then we discussed, mainly with wht and hydron, about the actual contents of the page. Now it's there, and even though the page has not too many purposes of existence, it's there.

Tue 2002-12-03 01:11 in visual No comments #link

CSS-trickery (and life)

Playing around with CSS (and a little bit of javascript)

Perfect with Mozilla, pretty close with IE (tested with ver. 6), disfunctional with Opera 6.

I just accidentally deleted my entry which described the weekend. Now I'm pissed.

Earlier today I read Maria & José by Erlend Loe. I liked it, a lot. Read it.

I'm not bothering to describe the weeked a third time.

Mon 2002-12-02 15:58 in links No comments #link