Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Mindbending Rotations

Mindbending Rotations


Life seems to be not as bad as I thought it would be here in Kemi all alone abandoned by everyone. I don't even have to stress about variegating it myself anyhow, it all just comes by itself. I don't think I've had that much activities during the "active" part of the year. Partying seems to be fun at first but when it becomes routine it brings no joy no more.

I've spent Juhannus in Saarikoski. I've finally visited more than IKEA in Haparanda but its surroundings including the old church in Alatornio. No matter how creepy it sounds it's really wonderful to take long walks at the cemetery. I've finally visited The Church of St Michael in Keminmaa, something I've been planning to do for the last three years. It was really impressive. I visited a regional museum there which was quite interesting as well.

I've been driving ATV and sailing Katarina with my boss, colleagues and some partners, an old ship built in thirties of the last century which is still in action and in perfect condition. Dinner, sauna, few drinks, beer festival, drunk cycling :D, night club. It was really fun! I've been to Murhaniemi checking the wind turbines. They are amazingly huge! And the views are just terrific.

Exciting work and regular work outs in gym have been keeping me pretty busy these days also. And the perspectives seem to be so bright. Though the winter is coming I hope it won't be as depressive as always. I feel the changes coming.

I've been updating my Flickr album more often than my blog. I think it's worth checking.

Monday, July 07, 2008

All-Terrain Sunday

My boss is flying on his ATV.



And this is me detaching.

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Movable Type vs. WordPress

I have tried out both WordPress and Movable Type in order to be able to decide myself which one I like the most as a stand-alone publishing platform which I've been planning to switch to for some time already. And I choose Movable Type for a number of reasons.

The main one is that Movable Type allows to run several blogs per installation which is a crucial feature for me as I'm running two blogs, one in English and one in Russian, and I would like to continue that way though centralizing the publishing in one interface. Movable Type is perfect for that whereas WordPress allows one blog per installation.

WordPress has quite bad security track record, something I haven't heard of Movable Type.

Movable Type has built-in OpenID support as well as LiveJournal, Vox and own authentication. I guess such functionality can be added to WordPress using some third-party plug-in but why should I bother when a ready solution already exists?

I liked Movable Type template engine and Movable Type Template Markup Language (MTML) quite much. The built-in template editor with syntax highlighting and shortcuts to various tags with description and included templates list is very handy.

I have test blog up and running so it's about time I say farewell to Blogger and transfer it to the main domain.