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Fantasizing Chaos

Helping with some Powerpoint and Irfanview presentations of the young missionaries who've been all around the world learning to distribute the gospel. I'm tired. Also, I've been burning CD's to students who've wanted digital photos along with them... there's a desperate need for a solution for organizing photos from various sources for various purposes.

Hankku's in Ryttylä, too.

Thu 2005-05-26 12:58 in diary No comments #link

Site planning

Just one week of teinilapsi left. Wonder what I'll do with that box on the front page then.

Perhaps I'll add a new category to this journal, for describing the more permanent situation of my life. Then I could always show the latest entry from that category on the frontpage box...

Sat 2005-05-21 13:02 in diary No comments #link

Drift control

One week of the Bible school in Ryttylä left. I've been bored with studying there for about a week now. It looks like I'm getting a flat in Hervanta, supposed to go take a look at one in Opintanner 1 today... so in a week, I'll be in Tampere again. I'm in the same house right now, since Hankku lives here, as well.

I've been afraid of losing my faith at the instant I stop living in Ryttylä more permanently, or something. It seems God's gotten a better grip of me during the year - although I'm still a hopeless case in many aspects, at least I have some sort of an idea just why I'm supposed to really trust God in everyday life.

It's funny how atheists just don't seem to get it, somehow it seems that they're holding on to not believing with two hands. On the other hand, I still don't consider myself being that far from an agnostic - I was grown up in a more or less materialistic world view, and believing does seem difficult at times as I've no concrete proof.

Still, I just know. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. (Matthew 7:18-20)

Today, I read Romans 11. Just so good.

Minor upgrades to JPEG-EXIF autorotate documentation.

Sat 2005-05-21 12:26 in diary No comments #link

Oxygen Phone Manager II

Oxygen Phone Manager is a cell phone to PC connectivity software for mostly Nokia and Symbian phones. I've been using it to download text messages (SMS) to my PC from my mobile phone. It's been useful for that - though I still can't use the UI very well, I've been capable of doing what I want most of the time. At first I used the software with a cable, but nowadays I've been using the infrared connection. Setting up the connection is a bit tricky with the software, I didn't seem to understand the logic behind the controls in the configuration window, but after getting the phone connected OPM II works like a dream.

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Tue 2005-05-17 19:51 in tech No comments #link

empty anymore?

We arrived at Vantaankoski on Friday, Hankku and me. My mom and Ville were sweet and they made good food. On Saturday morning I realized that the laptop that I used until then had honey (which had traveled in the same bag) all over it. Tried to clean it up and open it, but it got worse. At least I got all the data from the HD, though the rescue operation in Töölö took most of yesterday. It was nice to spend time with Emil meanwhile, though.

In the evening we arrived at Samuli's. We talked quite a lot about lots of things, also about philosophy and faith, it was great. I think perhaps I learned to understand him a bit better.

This morning, at the Helsinki railway station a man came to us and presented us with two riddles. We didn't know the answer to either of them, but he told us to search the web for "Dragon's trivia" - which we did, and found this great trivia game site (in Finnish) - works only in IE, though =(. Anyway, recommended.

Sun 2005-05-15 16:55 in diary No comments #link

Foreigner

It's warm and almost summer-like in Ryttylä. In Russia it (mostly) wasn't.

From Thursday morning until late Sunday evening, many of the students in our Bible school went on a bus trip to, ultimately, St. Petersburg. Loads of experiences, meeting people, trying to survive in an environment where most labels (street names, advertisements etc.) were in a foreign alphabet. Everybody took loads of photos - now the biggest problem is to distribute the photos so that everybody (who wants it) would get a set of common photos, say, on a CD.

I'm not too keen on writing about it right now, on memorizing too much. Some photos will probably be posted at the students' site of our school.

Mon 2005-05-09 14:27 in diary No comments #link

how I wanted to

Life seems to be so much about finding the right ways to communicate to people what's going on inside me, even though often I don't even know myself.

Generally I'm okay, though quite lost with God and indifferent. Moments seem to be just passing me by. I'm not sleeping quite enough...

Books read recently. Stefan Gustavsson: Perusteltu usko. (the Finnish translation of Kristen på goda grunder, "Christ on good grounds"), Ole Hallesby: Ihmisluonteet Raamatun valossa (the Finnish translation of Temperamenten i Kristen belysning), Olivier Clément: Taizé - Elämälle tarkoitus (the Finnish translation of Taizé: A meaning to life - I'm not sure about >the original language), Paul's Letter to the Hebrews (oh yeah) and some other books of the Bible. I'm sure there are others, too which I've left unmentioned in this journal (I've decided to mention all the books I read here, just for reference).

Books I've started but not quite finished. Jakov Damkani: Miksi juuri minä? (very compelling prose; the Finnish translation of Lama davka ani? / Why Me?), Alister McGrath: Epäilys ja sen rehellinen kohtaaminen (not sure the if I'm going to finish it; Finnish translation of Doubt. Handling it honestly), the Book of Revelation, Laurence O. Richards: Creative Bible Study (strongly recommended)

Then there's the list of books I'd like to read some day.

Again, I had much more to say than what I succeeded to express.

Tue 2005-05-03 15:52 in diary No comments #link

please be™

Who would've thought? iTunes me likes muchly. All those years in the company of Winamp are in the past now. At least so it seems. The iTunes UI is just so much simpler yet quite powerful. It might prove too simple, though... I like the integration of net radios and the Party shuffle feature. Haven't bought any music yet, though - I'm not too keen on using yet another format for storing music (Apple's using AAC).

Also, still dreaming of a mac portable.

Life's vain.

Mon 2005-05-02 18:59 in diary No comments #link