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siellä. täällä. Sun.

Inspired by something Iikku said in his umm, life, I decided to waste some time editing a photo since I'm in no mood for doing anything useful anyway. (Which is a shame, since I have literally tons of things to do: assuming of course that things to do can, umm, weigh.)

So I spent all day doing nothing, well, except for this image:

the original
the evilMachine

an unedited shot of the entire
machine

Got bored near the end so there's some sloppiness.

Blah. Well okay, we did hang around in the swings of Mikontalo with Jenni for a while in the morning. We also played around with Takeo Igarashi's strange but fun 3D drawing apps.

(later... Oh yeah. The text in the image.
"Tarpeeton oleskelu koneen työalueella kielletty" is Finnish for "Unnecessary stay in the working area of the machine forbidden".

"Vistas inte onödigtvis inom maskinens arbetsområde." is Swedish for: "Don't stay unnecessarily inside the machine's working area".

There was something else, but I forgot it. Oh yes, now I remember. The place of shooting the original photo is just nearby Hervanta centre in Tampere. I was so disappointed that they had decided to tear that little piece of forest down, just behind the Ahvenisjärvi bus stop.)

Thu 2004-04-29 18:55 in diary No comments #link

Common

Got my inline skates' wheels switched (a pic of the model I have - love 'em).

Roller skating for children (PDF) - instructions for teachers

I still think StumbleUpon is just, well, if not ingenious, then something else (haha... my page out there).

Sun 2004-04-25 12:02 in diary No comments #link

redundant

Ouh... so much to tell about Friday. Learning to pray...

And other things. Too bad I'm falling asleep right now. (= Anyway, if I should fail to write about Friday later, at least there'll be this note. =P

Sat 2004-04-24 03:59 in diary No comments #link

Thoughts about life

Haha what an ambitious topic for a post.

I've been designing a new layout for pilpi.net during the weekend. But now that I've established the thought that the time of renewing the site is coming near, I started planning all sorts of things so ... it might take a while. (=

Identified a problem in my life.

Somehow I have not believed that I really have a problem with roles in my life - granted, I have many different personalities when I'm with different people, but somehow I've thought of all of them as something that is me, in a quite natural way.

Still, it's not quite that simple. (Nothing ever is, is it?) I often have problems telling people something that I expect to raise a strong reaction, or something that means a lot to me.

Somehow realized yesterday evening that the only solution to this is learning to be more down-to-earth. Somehow more honest, accepting things the way they are, evaluating situations by the way I see them in a moment and then acting accordingly, lovingly, "sort of as if there's no more to see than what meets the eye but not really". Not trying to give an impression, not at all thinking about what kind of an impression I'm giving - just acting by what I think I should do, by what I think is right.

All this explanation seemingly lacks sense, though, because I can't really explain how I'm not currently living like that right now. But what I can tell about are the implications of this problem:

Face to face, it's really rather difficult to talk to people about Jesus, about Faith, about God. Naturally. Just because I feel like it.

It would be nice to go talk to a total stranger on the street and tell her/him: "Could I perhaps offer you a cup of coffee/tea/whatever in the closest café, talk for ten minutes and then walk away, no obligations, no expectations?" Currently I have no such capability. There's a social barrier. Somehow the message that I'm supposed to say seems bigger than me, too big for me to communicate.

Vapaus - näkymättömät lapset

Mon 2004-04-19 16:39 in diary No comments #link

Kiitos

Yesterday I learned something about repentance. After screwing up most of the day totally I prayed in the evening, and asked for forgiveness. Got relief.

The topic of this post means "Thank [you]" in Finnish. It's actually a noun: "[A] Thank you [to] God" would just be "Kiitos Jumalalle".

Sun 2004-04-18 13:41 in diary No comments #link

File sorting

Cleaning and sorting my MP3s, OGGs and module music files.

Deleting empty directories using DOS prompt and MS Word

Wouldn't have thought of it myself.

NOTE August 20, 2005: of course it's ridiculously much easier in Linux, just do perl -MFile::Find -e"finddepth(sub{rmdir},'.')" for the directory where you want to delete empty directories in.

Sat 2004-04-17 12:18 in tech No comments #link

croira saat lun, es-chee noow

ier nuhf, lewd
juon aach

No it don't mean a thing.

For the first time in my life, I feel a bit betrayed. I've gotten over it already, mostly.

The course work for the design and evaluation of a graphical user interface (GRAKSA, GRAafisen Käyttöliittymän Suunnittelu ja Arviointi) course was finished today by Ivar and me. Feel like forgetting the entire course totally for a while. I might publish something once I can think about it more objectively again.

Laa laa KRII öö. Tomorrow, something in the Hervanta Church I think...

Fri 2004-04-16 23:01 in diary No comments #link

StumbleUpon, website commenting

Testing StumbleUpon, a website recommendation and commenting service. Seems interesting, and they even have a toolbar for Firefox (though mine crashed during install it worked well after that).

Funny - some years ago I thought of the idea of having a central service for commenting websites and here it is now (=.

Actually, I might get rid of the "bookmarks" -section of my site and just link to StumbleUpon, but of course the service requires further testing.

Having just two levels of rating, "I like it" or "Not for me" seems too simplistic though. How about at least one option in-between?

Also, no guidelines for writing comments were found by me by accident (didn't really search though), and that shows in the quality of comments sometimes. For example, irc-galleria is a Finnish site and as such, has comments in both Finnish and in English, which is probably to confuse users. At least users should be able to specify which language is their comment in.

It also seems problematic that the FAQ seems to recommend commenting sites (and their main pages) in one advice and pages in the other - sometimes it's also difficult to tell whether content is a site of its own and what if I just want to comment on some specific content on a site?

Also, writing a new address in the address bar while using the service is problematic: for example, the "View user x who rated [site x]" -button remains attached to the site I was on before I wrote an URL of my own. There could perhaps be an optional button to return to the site that StumbleUpon recommended - which the "View user x who rated [site x]" button is attached to.

Wed 2004-04-14 14:46 in links 2 comments #link

Sweet sweet agape

I'm tired but I'll try to extract this one thought from my head.

What I realized during Easter in Ryttylä is that believing in Jesus can really be about learning about life in a very hands-on, concrete way. Especially in my teenage, I dreamt about having a mentor of some kind - someone wiser to tell me how to go on when I feel lost, someone who would be farther down the road, having experienced everything I'm going through in life earlier.

Now, somehow surpricingly, I've found my mentor in Jesus, through a reinforced, personal relationship.

Ain't it funny that in a way, after trying to follow my Lord for over two years now it still sounds like a "newfound" Faith once in a while?

Wed 2004-04-14 03:40 in diary No comments #link

Armo sulattaa

Skybird

Tulin Ryttylästä, Kansanlähetyksen lähetyskeskuksesta, jossa juhlittiin Vapahtajamme ylösnousemusta. (=. Tuntuu kuin kaikki olisi alkanut uudestaan - tosin se tuli viiveellä, Ryttylästä lähtiessä olin vain väsy ja päässä paljon selvitettävää. Ei sillä, ettei sitä olisi nytkin, mutta onpahan taas langanpäitä mistä Raamattua avata.

Sanoivat, että Raamattua kannattaa lukea kuin rakkauskirjettä Jumalalta. Sanoivat paljon muutakin viisasta, tuo tuli ensinnä mieleen. Uusi tapa ajatella, minulle.

Hommasta olisi paljon muutakin selitettävää, mutta aloin kotiin tultuani kuuntelemaan Skybird -nimisen bändin levyä jonka eilen innoissani keikan jälkeen ostin ja tykkään tästä edelleen tosipaljon.

Sun 2004-04-11 18:37 in nettis No comments #link

Loadsa things

Saw the movies Donnie Darko and About Mr. Schmidt in the weekend, during the visit to Katri's home in Lahti. She's on a holiday in Finland. It was fun seeing her for a change.

Hankku left to France on Saturday.

She's there now. (And she has my camera with her.)

Been ripping my entire CD collection, wanting to get rid of the physical CD's since I simply don't have any use for them anymore. I'd rather upload them to my MP3 player when I want to listen to them.

Heard that the French bureaucracy will require me to fill lots of forms should I go there next autumn. Therefore, I asked Stani to take a photo of me so that I can get 30 passport-sized photos at once by sending one huge photo JPEG file to a company who'll make a large (20x30cm) print of it and send it back to me by mail. 30 photos, under 5 euros.

digicamera.net: Ota omat passikuvasi

On Thursday and Friday Ivar and me did some usability testing in the lab of our school. Actually, Ivar tested and I took notes. Tomorrow is going to be the third and the last one of the tests, I'm a bit excited about it since it'll be my turn to take the active part.

I'm sure I've forgotten something but mu-st-sle-ep-n-ow.

Wed 2004-04-07 00:05 in diary No comments #link

the Gipsy population in Finland, in Finnish

Nuoret romanit -
Kuinka totuudenmukaisia käsityksemme romaneista ovat?

Thu 2004-04-01 17:41 in links No comments #link