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LOTR condensed - why bother seeing the movies? =D

roses are #FF0000 ...

Tue 2004-03-30 22:20 in links No comments #link

The Passion of the Christ

Tonight
and all my life
I've spent murdering you
tonight and all my life

and tomorrow,
I will do the same

I do not have a reality of my own
you gave me life
I've thrown it away

The Passion of the Christ taught me just how hard I actually am. The movie was violent, but I can't blame it for being violent. It made me see things for a second or two, it gave me focus. Go see it if you haven't.

Tue 2004-03-30 13:42 in poetry 2 comments #link

Kun mä meen

Location: Vantaanlaakso

My mother's and Ville's party was last night. They celebrated their marriage (they've been married for 1,5 years but never really celebrated it), and both their birthdays.

I was a pessimist about the party but it turned out great, talked with lots of people and danced quite a bit, too. Mostly the dancing was just jumping around on the floor with the <10-year-old girls of the party. \o/.

I took loads of photos, too. That was kinda made my responsibility during the party. Also I ended up some kind of a tech support for the audio equipment - though I didn't really know how to use it beforehand, we found out during the evening.

Since some guests were occupying mom's and Ville's guest rooms, they paid for hotel rooms for me, Annu and Kalle. It was great (=. We played pool in the hotel lobby for an hour or so after we arrived from the party. Too bad I hadn't set up the WLAN card for my loaner laptop so I couldn't try out the free hotel WLAN. Not that I would've had any use for Internet at two in the morning, though (x.

Going back to Tampere in an hour or two. Work work work.

Sat 2004-03-27 11:53 in diary No comments #link

Bored

Had a haircut in the morning. The hairdresser has her business in her home. It cost me 10 €, and she really knows her job.

Tomorrow: mom's birthday party slash general all-around party.

Been wasting time for three days now. Tuesday was a real lowdown. Done some schoolwork, but mainly feeling like I really don't know where to start because I have so much to do.

Watching a bad and very typical Hollywood romantic comedy: Meet Prince Charming (translated Unelmien prinssi). It's still sorta lovely, I used to be a real sucker for these.

Had troublesome time yesterday truing to install Plone and Zope on my Debian machine. A recent enough version was only in testing and installation caused all kinds of disasters. I guess I'll have to compile them myself.

The Windows installation worked out though, so I'm testing Plone and loving most of it. Strangely though, the installation process didn't let me create a user ID for Zope and what I tried to create it didn't work, so I currently can't access the management panel of Zope. But Plone's very fine.

There was a campaign today in a local (Hervanta) pizza place, Pizza Service: pizza bolognese for 2 euros. There was hardly any meat though, and I felt like I was being treated like a product in an assembly line =/.

Been spending a lot of time with Hankku lately. Really like her company (=.

Thu 2004-03-25 22:20 in diary No comments #link

si si, mais non!

Yesterday, I was accepted by my home university to be an exchange student in Metz, France. I'm scared and excited (=. There still has to be a confirmation from l'Université de Metz, though, and there's a separate application process.

IStudy - Université de Metz
AEMI, the student organization

I feel like I have no idea what I'm doing and if I'm really about to go I should start preparing things but don't yet know where to start and umh.

Tue 2004-03-23 10:35 in diary No comments #link

Milloin lähtee viimeinen juna ouluun?

I'm having trouble in deciding which language to write in. Should've just stuck with enngrish, huh?

Öö. Hain kuulokkeet "takuuhuollosta", pääsin eroon korviin sopimattomista nappikuulokkeista. En vieläkään lakkaa ihmettelemästä Kossin kuulokkeiden "ikuista" takuuta Hifi-Studio 17:llä. Ostin Koss KTX-PRO -kuulokkeet miltei kaksi ja puoli vuotta sitten ja nyt oli jo toka kerta kun itse vahingossa hajotin vehkeet ja nämä korjasivat ne ilmaiseksi (vaihtoivat rikkinäisen osan uuteen).

Töitätöitä. Ikävää ja kiirettä. Maailma on ihan outo nyt.

Kuuntelen Baumanin perhettä, jonka jäsenistä ainakin yksi sattuu opiskelemaan samaisella tietojenkäpistelyn laitoksella kuin minä. Tykkäilen.

Mon 2004-03-22 11:43 in diary No comments #link

heja finska engelska

Referring to the previous post: I grew tired of always writing in English, so I decided to write in Finnish when I feel like it and don't have anything that... umm... universal to say. That is, when I only want to spell out what's going on in my life etc. Anyway, if I could find the time, it would be nice to introduce blog entry categories to this journal so that my two readers could pick which topics/languages they wish to read.

Sat 2004-03-20 12:33 in diary No comments #link

heja finska

Tein periaatepäätöksen kirjoittaa suomeksi silloin, kun huvittaa eikä varsinaisesti ole mitään kovin universaalia sanottavaa; ts. kun haluan vain vaikkapa kertoa omasta elämästä. Olen miettiny tätä kauan kun ton enklantin käyttö välillä tuppaa ottamaan päähän - tiettyjen asioiden ilmaisu kertakaikkiaan vain on luonnotonta.

Tästä seuraa tietysti se, että kaikki on sekaisin täällä nettiksen puolella, ja voisi olla kiva jos ottaisin kirjoitusten kategorisoinnit muuhunkin kuin omaan sisäiseen käyttöön: näin voisivat kaksi kävijääni valita, millä kielellä ja minkä tyyppisiä tekstejä tahtovat nähdä. Jee-jee.

Ja tämäkin nyt on ihan läppää, eihän minulla täällä useimmiten mitään asiaa ole =P. Tuntuu kuitenkin vapauttavalta, kun itselleni luvan annoin suomeksi kirjoittaa. Vaikka ei näyttäisi ihan paras aamu tämän aloittamiseen olevan, tämä tekstihän on tosi omituista noin sanajärjestykkseltään esmes.

Kuten kuvasta näkyy, kirjakielen ja oikean kielen välillä en ole oikein vielä tullut tulokseen, että kumpaa käyttää.

Ainiin, eilen EIKUN toissapäivänä oltiin miekkarissa opiskelijoiden oikeuksien puolesta. Siitä julkaisen kuvia, kunhan pääsen takaisin Tampereelle, vielä Vantaalla olen.

Sat 2004-03-20 12:21 in nettis 1 comment #link

kissing shadows for real

Iikku posted this on #kaunispojat @ IRCNet: The Mnemisis Manual. I would probably never find the interest to learn such a system, though it seems fun, sort of.

I'm deeply annoyed by the fact that the bookmarks section of this site really is rather.. dead.

Tue 2004-03-16 17:29 in links No comments #link

obscure paths

At times I see the contrast between the two more clearly.

There's the path of life my studies are leading to. An IT professional of some flavour, open source development, web site/application design, usability studies etc. I'm not that passionate about this path, but it's interesting and profitable and getting respect out of knowing what I'm doing isn't a bad thing, either. At times it can get a bit rough though.

The second path is something deeply personal. My "artsy" stuff, poems and photos scratch the surface, but really just the surface, since I don't really have a grasp of it (not yet anyway) that I could present as something perceivable. It seems that being with me IRL allows some people to see bits and pieces. If this sounds confusing and obscure, you could just compress the thought into the following sentence.

I believe I have more to give than just IT know-how. I believe I could teach lots of people stuff. But just what that stuff is, I still don't know. I've acknowledged the two seemingly separate ways for a long time, and for now I just have to settle for trusting my Lord to eventually show me how to perhaps combine the two.

Happy that I could spell it out a bit more clearly than before.

Sun 2004-03-14 23:49 in diary No comments #link

Awaking from dirty dreams

The world seems to be filled with all kinds of PHP/website projects, I seem to be working with something all the time and more seems to be dripping on me.

Anyway, that's probably all I have to say. I'm ripping my CD's to OGGs, and I'm happy I found an excellent Linux utility, Grip (thanks to crwl on IRCNet), for doing that.

Still, I'm tired of realizing how shallow my life is again and again. All work. I guess that's good in a way, though.

I'm supposed to go to France in the Autumn and I can't even write English anymore...

Sun 2004-03-14 21:09 in diary No comments #link

The Interview with God

The Interview with God (Beautiful photos indeed)

Straight to the actual poem

Straight to the Flash file (1,22 MB)

They seem to have gone through much trouble to avoid people from seeing the flash file directly, so unless you really can't stand javascript or a popup opening when you click a link, please don't use it.

Tue 2004-03-09 00:11 in links No comments #link

Tie, Totuus ja Elämä

UN study: Think upgrade before buying a new PC

Singing frog (Flash, ~300kb)

For the first time in a long while, I joined the Communion (ehtoollinen) in the Hervanta church yesterday. After that I did nothing much. In the evening wasted-slash-spent some quality time with Hankku.

Mon 2004-03-08 12:53 in diary No comments #link

laiturilla

So incredibly many things have happened.

pilpi.net was down for a couple of days. Int2000.net, who was supposed to take care of billing me when time comes, didn't, so the domain name expired. This time, with the valuable help of my actual ISP, avaruus.net, I managed to take the control of the domain into my own hands. Everything seems to be fine again.

Yesterday evening was spent at kräsä, feeling closeness to that place I might some day learn to call my home (-congregation). Afterwards, I saw Hankku relatively quickly and came home.

Today, I've been tweaking graphics for the design and evaluation of a graphical user interface (GRAKSA, GRAafisen Käyttöliittymän Suunnittelu ja Arviointi) course project website. At some point, a German student visited my (messy) flat, telling me that he wanted to take photos of it - for some kind of a school project, aiming to illustrate student life (or something).

As the night was getting closer, Ivar and his fiancée Liisa came to my place for a while. We talked about the GRAKSA project some more. Then we went to the place of some of their friends to spend the evening. There were things to eat and drink. Some chatting and sauna. Most of the people went to continue the night to town, but I decided to return home, finishing some GRAKSA stuff so I won't have to think about it much tomorrow.

Sun 2004-03-07 02:37 in diary No comments #link

crayon

woke up after about twenty minutes of sleep to read through the prayer mail i'd forgotten...

earlier during the day we had a presentation about the uppo-nallen runoreissu cd-rom, and the feedback meeting of the gui design and evaluation course. all went well. then i spent the rest of the day with hankku, talking, and with fedora, installing it - core 1 this time, though.

going on slowly but surely. not so sure about the slowly though.

Wed 2004-03-03 00:03 in diary No comments #link