2005/09
2005-09-30
Muuttomyynti
Koska työtilan vuokrasopimus päättyy, pitää varastoa tyhjentää ja myynnissä on monia kauniita kankaita, nappeja ja nauhoja, sekä korsettitarvikkeita.
Suomalainen näppis
Suomalaisessa näppäimistössa on jotkut asiat kyllä ihan tyhmästi.
Muutama parannusidea:
- Ä:n ja Ö:n paikkojen vaihto päittäin
- Enterin vieressä olevaan aksenttinäppaäimeen normaaliksi tulokseksi tilde.
- Koko näppiksen muuttaminen dvorak-pohjaiseksi, niin että perusrivillä on enemmän vokaaleja
17:13 - /Bits and PCs
2005-09-28
Pyöräily töihin
Maksiminopeus: 29,1 km/h
Keskinopeus: 15,6 km/h
Matka: 8,3 km
Aika: 32 minuuttia
Liikennevaloja oli monta, joten ehkä vähempiliikennevaloinen pidempi reitti olisi nopeampi. Tosin nytkin meni piirun vähemmän aikaa kuin bussilla menolla.
09:49 - /Hehku - Glow
2005-09-25
No .avi
Updating the Debian unstable on my desktop machine caused Totem no longer being able to play .avi. I should look into that at some point.
22:54 - /Bits and PCs
Things at the workroom
I now would want to do various things before sleeping and all of the things I need for those things are at my workroom. And they are not even work related objects!
22:49 - /Vaahto - Foam
2005-09-24
Barnacle geese
Today my walk was pleasantly interrupted by a strong want to stop to observe hundreds of barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) eating on a field not far from my home and severa groups of 4 or 5 of them occasionally flying around.
18:01 - /Hehku - Glow
2005-09-22
Artificials sweeteners
I should stay away from artificial sweeteners. They make me miserable in anything but small quantities and almost always taste inferior to sugar.
11:13 - /Opittua - Learned in life
2005-09-21
Sometimes one needs to take steps back in order to go forward
I found a site, learn2type.com, that offers a free typing speed test and some lessons for touch typing. At least the basic features seem to be free of cost. Unfortunately they do not support Finnish/Swedish keyboard layout so their basic homeline exercises require me to use shift and even alt-gr.
As the solution I jumped to the further exercises. I noticed that at the moment typing is significantly slower than typing using my normal 'any finger goes' method. I'm pretty fast with my own method (about 40 wpm). However I think I just need to tolerate temporary slowness in order to get faster in the future.
As touch typing is a physical skill, I bet learning it as a kid would have been much easier, but better late than never.
10:17 - /Opittua - Learned in life
2005-09-19
Trusted computing animation
There is a well made animation about trusted computing. Worth seeing, though it might be puzzling if you do not know much about trusted computing. They do have a strong point, however.
21:07 - /Bits and PCs
2005-09-18
Seuraa kuin hai laivaa
Seuraako hait muka laivaa? Miksi ihmeessä... Venettä ehkä.
09:52 - /Sense of Wonder
2005-09-17
NotPron
Some minutes ago I was introduced to NotPron puzzle and I'm hooked already. It's like the Python challenge but without Python.
09:31 - /Hehku - Glow
Reverse
Why do humans have hairy armpits and less hairy body and dogs rather hairless armpits on generally hairy body?
09:24 - /Sense of Wonder
2005-09-15
Bookcrossing usability annoyance
When releasing a book on bookcrossing.com, I can choose one of my earlier release zones. If I want to release the books somewhere else, the site forces me to go through country, region and city selection instead of letting me jump directly to the city or cities where I have recently released books.
10:57 - /Bits and PCs
2005-09-14
Volunteer usefulness ends at 30?
It seems that for most longterm volunteer positions there is a requirement for the person to be not more than 30 years of age. I feel very frustrated by that limit as I'm going to be 30 within 6 months.
Does volunteer usefulness end at 30 and if so, why?
09:46 - /Vaahto - Foam
2005-09-10
DVD & CD Crossing
Maybe there should be Bookcrossing kind of thing for DVDs and CDs too.
12:56 - /Sense of Wonder
Ruskea pahvi paperinkeräysastioissa
Ketuttaa kun ihmiset pistävät ruskeaa pahvia paperinkeräysastioihin vaikka niiden päällä lukee "ei ruskeaa pahvia eikä roskia". Pahimmillaan menee kai pilalle koko satsi paperia.
Yleensä vietän sitten joitakin minuutteja pyrkien poistamaan kaiken ruskean pahvin, mutta se on rasitus.
10:12 - /Vaahto - Foam
2005-09-09
Simple or easy?
Often people say "why can't foobar be simple?" when it's plenty simple enough, just not easy. Or the other way around "why does foobar need to be so difficult?" when in fact it's not difficult, just complicated. Is there something in the human mind that equates simple and easy?
09:37 - /Sense of Wonder
2005-09-07
2005-09-05
Why are shaved armpits and legs considered feminine?
Until couple of weeks ago I had been shaving my armpit hair since it started growing. Then I stopped for a while and now I have trouble understanding why it is consider so feminine, so 'normal' to shave legs, armpits and even pubic hair. Shaving is a lot of work. The stubble causes itching. Razors cost money. And the result is not perfecly smooth anyway, except maybe on the legs.
22:53 - /Sense of Wonder
2005-09-04
Taking a leak
I have never thought myself much bothered by such things but today I was in a situation where I missed a good oppurtunity for a nice discussion simply because the person talking was just 2-3 metres away from another guy who was taking a leak in a very visible way and it was impossible to look at the person talking without seeing them both. The conversation was still nice but way short...
09:10 - /Sense of Wonder
2005-09-02
Riding a bicycle in London
I visited London last week and got to do some cycling on a borrowed Brompton. The Brompton was wonderful and I really want one, but that's not what this entry is about.
I was surprised how easy cycling in London was. The car traffic seemed to be ok with people cycling behind them and the traffic in general was moving at a relatively slow speed, making the whole experience feel a lot safer than cycling in traffic in Turku (I don't have enough experience on cycling in Helsinki to form a good opinion on it).
12:47 - /Hehku - Glow
2005-09-01
Carry medicine with you
When using a medicine that needs to be taken every morning, carry spares with you so that missing breakfast at home will not also mean missing the medicine.
08:04 - /Opittua - Learned in life
Keittämätön pasta
Älä syö keittämätöntä pastaa, siitä tulee kurkku kipeäksi.
07:13 - /Opittua - Learned in life