Land of the Basuthu

08 February 2004 in Sani Top, Lesotho. 10 minute read.

The evening around the fire was amazing. The fire circle is located on a good vantage point on the hill, with view opening across the small nature preservation area to the west and Pretorian suburb to the south.

Struck by the drum

05 February 2004 in Pretoria, South Africa. 3 minute read.

While waiting for the roast to be ready we visited Hogan's Irish bar quite near Wapandrand. The bar had Guinness on tap, but apparently it was African made and tasted quite different from the normal stout. We tried to fish out the beer's origins from the waitress but she didn't know it. Rumor has it they have a Guinness factory...

First view of Africa

03 February 2004 in Pretoria, South Africa. 3 minute read.

I left Helsinki in middle of a blizzard. It had snowed almost 30 cm during the morning and whole traffic was in chaos. Taxi call center had crashed, and it took almost half an hour to get a taxi to appear.

OSCOM's Wechner is One of CMS Leaders to Watch in 2004

28 January 2004. 1 minute read.

OSCOM’s president Michael Wechner is one of the Twenty CMS Leaders to Watch in 2004 in a list published by CMSWatch.

MidRepository hacking in OSCOM Sprint Zurich

16 January 2004. 1 minute read.

David Schmitter and Henri Kaukola will be attending the 3rd OSCOM Sprint in Zurich on Jan 23rd to work together on the MidRepository workflow module for Midgard.

Midgard and Project UTF-8

27 November 2003. 1 minute read.

FreeDesktop.org has started a new project for evangelizing and documenting proper Unicode support in free software. It’s called Project UTF-8.

HKLC moves Aegir CMS to GPL licensing

09 August 2003. 2 minute read.

Linux Center (HK) Ltd. has moved the popular Nadmin Studio content management product and its successor, Aegir CMS under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL licensing provides users rights to use, modify and distribute the software as long as the source code is kept available and modifications to the application given back to the development community. The licensing...

Bike problems in Estonia

19 July 2003 in Pärnu, Estonia. 2 minute read.

We started the next morning with another refreshing swim in the river, and continued to the centre of Pärnu for beers and some shopping. The day was very hot so we had to stop to a beer terrace every couple hundred meters.

Go west

16 July 2003 in Pärnu, Estonia. 2 minute read.

Tuesday morning in Pskov and not a single cloud on the sky - the first summer day during our vacation. Wearing only t-shirts we aimed for the Estonian border. We were there at about 1 pm. There was no queue, but then again there didn’t seem to be any officials either. While we waited some Latvian cars came behind us...

My friend Milizia

14 July 2003 in Pskov, Russia. 3 minute read.

Monday morning in Velike Luki was the first one to greet us with sunshine. Dark clouds still covered most of the sky but that didn’t bother us. During the last few days I had noticed odd cruching sound coming from my Ural’s engine. The previous day I had topped up the oil but that didn’t help. This morning, after a...