This is the page 105 of 113 of the blog archive. On this page you have articles from 13 Apr 2004 to 31 Mar 2004.

Year of the Penguin

Still back in 1999 it was a struggle to get my employer to run a Linux server. Two years later their own main product ran only on Linux.However, "Year of the Penguin"? There have been many of those...1999 - The Year of the Penguin2000 - Could've been Year of the Penguin2001 - Not the Year of the Penguin2002 - The...

On Silence

It was suprising how much he was able to communicate with simple pantomime and gestures. When the silence ended at midnight, he told us there had been only three occasions when he would've wanted to explain something but couldn't.Of course, the sign language alphabet we learned back in commune days to irritate the rest of our flat mates helped.

Linux Greenhouse goes MidCOM

The original Linux Greenhouse class convened in Seoul, Korea in June at the Global Linux 2000. Nemein has been providing eRiding services to LGH since spring 2001.The site design was made by Airton Jordani from loulouejordani.com.

Popularizing World Live Web

The rare spots where I've been able to explain the benefits of RSS have been:Keiretsu situations - displaying the news headlines from partner companies on a websiteIntranet headlines - displaying latest news items from the public site, running on separate serverHowever, this is still quite far from getting people from bloated news site browsing to the lean and efficient World...

Caucasus Reading List

Now I'm reading Nicholas Griffin's "Caucasus - Mountain Men and Holy Wars".Other books I've been thinking about include:Panttipataljoona (Jokipii, 1968) - Finnish volunteers fighting for German SS in CaucasusHadji Murad (Tolstoy, 1904) - Story of a Chechen warlord fighting with and against the legendary Imam ShamilLet me know if you have any thoughts. As usual, I prefer historical accounts over...
cover image for 10th Anniversary of Harmaasudet

10th Anniversary of Harmaasudet

We arranged a "HC Susi" contest with meep for the event. In the contest the teams had to arrange performances with themes like "Why Grey Wolves suck - view of the ordinary live-roleplayer" or "Headlines of Grey Wolves' gossip column for the coming years", and recognize obscure items and faces from the history of the association.The prize of special "HC...

Open Source and Usability

The discussion on the matter continues on Slashdot thread "Making Things Easy is Hard".With Midgard, there are several major issues affecting usability:Installation is horrible: solution would be to provide prebuilt packages for popular Linux/Unix platformsSite setup is difficult: we should integrate sitegroup creation, host creation from template, style creation, site initialization and VirtualHost setting into one simple "Create website" dialogContent...

Jose is Back

Pretty interesting stories; hanging from a cliff hands bleeding and meditating under a tree for days. Makes me really look forward to the official show-and-tell evening on Saturday in Parnell's.Also, the photos of his Enfield were simply sexy. Oh well, then we have a new member at Routa MC.Updated 2004-04-04: For Jose's new life style of short sleep and daily...

Netcraft on Blogs and Wikis

"The current excitement over blogs is curious, since they amount to little more than personal Web pages. Although a standard history of blogging dates the phenomenon to 1997, the key attributes of the blog - a page of selected links and comments in reverse chronological order - can be found as far back as June 1993 on the NCSA What's...