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give you the rest of my life

Helsinki.

It's a blizzard outside, but I'm at work, safely inside. Supposed to install Fedora on some machines, perhaps the Core 2 test 1 version.

For the past week Ivar and I have been working like dogs in order to finish the phase 2 of our design and evaluation of a graphical user interface course project. We've been drawing paper prototypes and testing them on 6 different users. Yesterday, from nine to five, was spent writing the documentation. By the time it was finished, it seemed that we were too... way too much work for 3 course units.

Well, I really don't have anything essential on my mind right now so whining is all you're going to get this time. Back to work... (=

Fri 2004-02-27 09:12 in diary No comments #link

tire

Lots of work and stuff. I and Ivar have done 5 paper prototype usability tests during two days. Ouch. Should take a serious day of resting, if I could find the time.

I like my Mandrake Linux (or the KDE setup, anyway =), so I'll post a screenshot of my desktop (~126KB, size 819x614 pixels). I usually find such screenshots rather boring (and this one is too), but I just felt like it this time.

<3

Mon 2004-02-23 23:37 in diary No comments #link

quotation

Tukehtuuhan sydämeni, mutta ihanasti.
-Aleksis Kivi

Sun 2004-02-22 23:49 in runot No comments #link

Websites, Schmecksites

During the last 24 hours I've slowly realized that I'm fed up with making websites. The idea of it just seems incredibly boring. I feel I know all there is to know. Of course that's not really true. However, I know ... some things. Many of the things that are essential. At least for now, I'm officially disgusted by the "art" of making websites.

Reading Erlend Loe's Tatt av kvinnen in Finnish (Naisen talloma). I've been reading it rather slowly for a couple moths now, borrowing it to quite a few people to read and then, as they've returned it, continued where I left off. In the beginning I didn't like the book, but nowadays it seems to provide a rather handy getaway from reality.

Published the website I've been working on for a couple of weeks now. It's just in Finnish for now, but there'll be an English part, as well.

Also, Elina published her student organization's new site (in Finnish, as well) yesterday. Somehow, I feel proud of her, since to me, that site rocks (=. She did consult me a bit on HTML+CSS issues, but did the creative work and wrote the actual code.

Tired, sleep. Now.

Fri 2004-02-20 00:45 in diary No comments #link

Dedicated to Jesus

After yesterday's tormenting state of mind which led me to wondering if I'm approaching burnout, today indeed was a positive surprise. I just felt better and everything went, if not that great, then pretty well. And in the evening, our Bible reading circle, this time with four of us, gathered again. We had some rather lovely conversations and it seemed that our prayer in the end really was guided. Seemed that there was lot to say, whether or not that's a good thing in itself, and there was trust.

One of today's subjects was actually doing something after trying to learn God's Word, actually living by the Word (James 1:19-25: Finnish Bible 1992, NIV Bible). Made me think.

Thank You so much dear Jesus for this day. You know exactly what each of us all needs.

Wed 2004-02-18 22:16 in diary No comments #link

Java & PHP stuff

An interesting site with quite a few Java and PHP applications. I'm already using one of them (=.

Tue 2004-02-17 22:00 in links No comments #link

Utterly retarded

As long as I'm not thinking about... anything, I'm fine. Completely incapable of concentrating right now, on pretty much anything. So I'm cleaning up my room. Kinda soothing. I love doing stuff with my hands. I'm like this, tired and sick, since I've way too many things to do all the time and I stayed up until 5 a.m. coding a course work between Sunday and Monday.

Yesterday, I was about to write something here, but kind of forgot. We talked about lots of things with Hankku and there were some of them I might've liked to share. Yesterday, I also applied for the Erasmus exchange student program. Maybe I'll be in Metz, France this time, next year. Actually, it'll probably begin in September.

Season of light (Flash movie)

Tue 2004-02-17 21:04 in diary No comments #link

One Micro$off way

Someone posted this on #luuppi, and I guess it's been slahdotted, as well...

What makes IE so fast? (Warning: relatively serious techie talk)

Mon 2004-02-16 00:43 in links No comments #link

white

I actually felt better after the previous post, after getting some of the mess out of my system.

Spent the evening in kräsä, and got some hope. After that met Jenni, the one who moved to Lahti about a year ago, quickly. Now I would still ahve some work to do...

Kansan Raamattuseura: Epäilijän sivut

Fri 2004-02-13 22:33 in diary No comments #link

krii.re

I'm hectic
it's empty and I'm afraid to stop
I'm afraid
words pass by my mind
and I loose them I'm
struggling to have a meaning
to see meaning, anywhere
just breathe, try to
SEE YOUR FATHER'S GENTLE SMILE
or rather these empty hallways I just can't stop for a second I've got to be useful in order to not be useless in order to not
vanish

Fri 2004-02-13 15:05 in poetry No comments #link

Suuremman kaipuu

It's been a long end of a week. Been at work, in Helsinki, with my dad, with Emil and Leena. Spent quality time with Hankku and TseiTsei. Rescued data from the broken NTFS partition that held my photos hostage.

Dreamt about going to the University of Metz, France next Autumn - the deadline for application is tomorrow. Slept a lot, but at the very moment I'm very tired, too. Lots of love, lots of talk about our Lord. Trusting my Heavenly Father since that's all I seem to have left, to do.

Sun 2004-02-08 23:40 in diary No comments #link

Minne röökirahat menevät?

Tupakkapohatat (in Finnish)

Mon 2004-02-02 22:41 in links No comments #link

guilty as I can be

Though quoted previously, this is what today tastes like:

"Auto sammu maantien laitaan keskelle korpisuoraa, se on kuin kuolema joka tarttuu hetkeks miehen arkipaitaan ja sanoo että terve vaan! me joskus vielä kohdataan, ja kokoukset sujuu hyvin myös ilman sinua"

Been designing a new layout and structure for the website of one of Stadia's (where I started working) projects. I like it, though it's kind of grey. I'll post a link to it once it actually gets published...

Lots of work lying everywhere and staring at me angrily. Just need to find the energy somewhere.

... and I constantly feel like I was supposed to have something to say.

Mon 2004-02-02 20:03 in diary No comments #link