Ukrainian experience

12 July 2004 in Kyiv, Ukraine. 5 minute read.

Ukraine. The border was surprisingly fast and the nice border guards even warned me of a police radar trap ahead. (2004-07-12 13:52 - Bergie)

Head out on the highway

10 July 2004 in Bryansk, Russia. 2 minute read.

Last morning in St. Petersburg. We're packing and wondering how Kerttu will get all her stuff carried without the motorcycle. (2004-07-10 10:38 - Bergie)

Get your motor running

03 July 2004 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. 5 minute read.

Heavy rain in Helsinki so we put on our teletubby suits. Odometer says 56084km (2004-07-03 11:53 - Bergie)

To the Black Sea

02 July 2004. 1 minute read.

More African Photos Online

01 July 2004. 1 minute read.

The photos still need to be titled and added to appropriate travel journal entries, but that might have to wait until I return from the Black Sea.

Travel preparations

30 June 2004 in Helsinki, Finland. 2 minute read.

This trip will be headed to the Black Sea, and possibly to the Caucasus region. Research for the Caucasus part of the trip has been going on for quite a while, but now it looks like the area might be a bit too restless for travel.

Content Creation with SMS

30 June 2004. 5 minute read.

The SMSs are sent to an old Ericsson R520 mobile phone which is connected to a Linux box running gsmsmsd from gsmlib. New SMSs are forwarded to Routa MC as emails, which are imported into Midgard using fetchmail and the OpenPSA mail import script supportmda.pl. Then the SMSs are handled by a Midgard page which has the following code:

Nemein's New Visual Guidelines

23 June 2004. 1 minute read.

Over half of the new business Nemein gets comes through the Web site, so it makes sense to put some effort into improving it. The old site was very product-focused and didn't really communicate how the company works.Design goals for the new site included:Highlight solutions instead of the (Open Source) products behind themHighlight Nemein's client list and some case studiesExplain...

Standard Labels in XHTML Layouts

21 June 2004. 1 minute read.

Using standard CSS classes was one of the ideas I posted on practical CMS interop. If different Content Management Systems and web scripts could standardize on these keeping layouts synchronized between them would be very easy.In his follow-up, Andy provides a more detailed list and structure of IDs to use. This could well be the starting point for standardization.Updated 2004-06-23...

Planets and Reading Lists

21 June 2004. 1 minute read.

My full weblog is aggregated to Planet Midgard, Summer Source Blogs and Midgard developers on OSCOM.In addition to aggregating all posts, the Midgard category is aggregated to Planet PHP, the Business category to Linux Greenhouse Blogs and the OSCOM category to Planet OSCOM. OpenPSA News are generated from my OpenPSA category.These aggregators combined with people reading the weblog with news...