Nice Weather

I can't believe my eyes. It's sunny outside! Dark season is over!

Kallinkangas

Everyone had a hangover after Friday's party but only Alex wasn't able to go with us. So Masha, Ovidiu and me went to Kallinkangas to have some fun in the snow. Ovidiu borrowed Esa's snowboard and broke one of its bindings the day before. He tried to ride it anyways and broke another one. The rented board's binding didn't last for long either and there was nothing left of his wish to snowboard so he rented skis and giving up snowboarding once and for all.

Here's the video I filmed:


And here are some photos:

Keep Trying

I didn't feel like blogging about it and I still don't but somehow I feel I have to write about it. The job interview went fine. Actually it went quite good as I was confident and I knew that I have the skills and I have nothing to be afraid of. The interviewer seemed to have quite a good impression about my background and me in general but he wasn't the one to decide. He tried to reach CEO several times but he wasn't picking the phone so I was told to wait until the next week. I waited. On Monday I got an email saying that unfortunately they can't hire me at the moment. So the only thing I have left to do is just to keep trying.

The Mana World Buddy List

Something I've been busy with lately. I hope I'll finish it before I loose all the interest. The buddy list looks like this:


And it has a nice tray icon and notifications:



There are still few features to be implemented. I hope it'll find its users when it's ready.

MacBook Air

I'm gonna drown in my own saliva soon.

You Wanna Piss On Me?

I am not a perv, not yet a woman. I couldn't resist typing that. I am not dreaming about golden showers but this Brithey's song just sounds way too disturbing. And it has been playing in my head all day long! I'd better listen some Kraftwerk. Simple lyrics, catchy melodies. The best way to give your brain some rest. Giving it some sleep would be a nice thing to do also and surely it will get some rest this way but it's not sending proper signals yet so I guess it's ok. Well, it can switch off itself if it needs so I'll just let it take care of itself.

Compiz Fusion

I am not a fan of eye candy and my relatively old computer isn't either so I didn't bother to install it earlier. I don't get any kicks out of using bleeding edge software but when it's available in the official distribution repository why not to try it? So I did. I've been making some screenshots of Compiz earlier which can be found here. And here are some of the nice features you get using Compiz Fusion.



You can switch between the windows this way.




Or this way. Or in many other ways available.




The cube can be made transparent with its reflection beneath.
It's useless to take screenshots of other effects. They should be seen live or at least on video. On YouTube there are plenty of such videos.

Esa

Taking a nap in Kemi airport.

Svalbard

The homeland of panserbjørne. Beware of bears.



Applies to the whole Svalbard.

Panssarikarhu

I want to be penserbjørn. Panssarikarhu. It's way better than Pupukarhu. I want to possess an incredible strength and be way more valiant and brave.

4 am

I ran out of cocoa powder. This is no good.

Up And Running

It wasn't very hard to deploy a web, NFS and mail server on FreeBSD. Loads of documentation helped a lot and the system is way less scarier than I thought. Lars advised me to take a look at OpenBSD as it supports more architectures, doesn't allow BLOBs and non-free software and has better track record for performance and security as he says. I have no reason to doubt that so I gave it a try. It was a bit more pain in the ass but I still managed. The only thing I couldn't do is to compile Python 2.5 from ports tree. Python 2.4 compiled just fine. Now it's serving two accounts and two domain names. It's kind of useless as I don't have proper hardware and fast enough internet connection but I'm considering renting a virtual dedicated server. The next step will be to set up a mail list software and interbreed it with GnuPG.

Fuck!

I was within a hairbreadth of smashing my PDA against the wall. I typed quite a long post and accidently pressed back instead of space bar on the screen keyboard. They are like couple of millimeters away from each other and it's not the first time I'm losing posts this way. I need to find some proper blogging software or start using email to post as Internet Explorer really sucks. Especially the mobile one.