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Attack of the Blogs - Forbes.com

Forbes has a great story of the power of the bloggers. I totally agree that blogers should bear the responsibility of the material they publish. Atleast if they publish it as a first hand info. Link: Attack of the Blogs - Forbes.com.

Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo.

If you dont want to register use "forbesdontbug" as password and username.
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IRC gallery teenagers

Link: Putfile - am irk final.
Here is a classic. IRC gallery girls chrash into batchelor party. I didn't realize that IRC galleria was that popular among the Finnish teenagers. Its like my space in US.

South lake tahoe Climbing

Riikka on the Corrugation corner 2nd pitch

The third pitch

Strawberry creeck @ south lake tahoe

This was worth the four hour trip and freezing in the tent. Corrugation corner is a legend. Extra exposed, vertical and sometimes even overhanging plus and extra chimney make this route one of the best in California.

James Perse Jeans

These will look good on your ass.

Muropaketti gets 1gb out of their ATI GPU

Finnish Muropaketti.com boys managed to take their graphic chip to the limits. Good work guys =]

Noted Finnish over-clockers Sampsa Kurri and Ville Suvanto achieved graphics engine clocks of 1.003 GHz

I used to have watercooling in my home computer. Liquid nitrogen tank... mmmm.. Gotta have very cold computer. No really. I am happy to play the new Civ when it arrives next week with my lap top.

Jarhead the movie

Yesterday I went to a preview of Jarhead movie (opens in US 4th of November)Link: WELCOME TO THE SUCK.

The movie remided me of the Full metal Jacket. The main character Swofford played by Jake Gyllenhaal "lost his way to college" and joined the US marines. The first part of the movie is describing the training at boot camp and at sniper school. Seems that nothing has changed since Vietnam and Kubric's FMJ. This is where the mind washing of the young men start. They are turned to mindless killers who follow orders. The sniper training was pretty accurately pictured.

Soon the platoon is sent to Iraq to operation desert shield. Desert shield was the build up phase to the desert storm the first gulf war. Waiting and mindles training in the desert lead up to the start of the action as both sides get ready for the mother of all wars.

Getting psyched for the action can frustrate a man if nothing happens. The war ended and not all troops saw the enemy or any action. Swofford never fires a shot in the war. Just like the Full metal Jacket was not a war movie, this is not a movie about the war. The Jarhead is a movie about the soldiers and their training. It is showing how a single grunt in a sleeping hole sees the war.

The movie is not about the current conflict where the US death toll just reached 2000. I guess some things have changed. Today soldiers have blogs and they can communicate with their loved ones online. This doesn't mean that they are nessecary aware what is going around them. No CNN for enlisted... The last part offers some great images of the soldiers in the middle of burning oil wells in a scenery that resembel Hell and platoon walking through the unlucky convoy of bomb-toasted cars stolen from Kuwait.

Seiska has a picture of Karpela handbag

With a text. "The bag must have costed at least 400 euros."

Questions about CC licenses and Star wreck

Link: Star Wreck forum :: View topic - Lisenssiä koskien....

Tässä yliopistolla kävellessä tuli vastaan kumma mies joka jakoi lappuja keskustanuorten vaalitilaisuuteen.. jossa sitten esitetään Star Wreck - In the Pirkinning... mitenköhän mahtaa olla, saako leffaa käyttää näin?

Civilization IV is coming

Christmas is coming early this year. Next week the mother of all strategy games Civilization 4 is set to be published. Yesterday I placed an advance order on Amazon. Looks like the work/sleep will be on hold for the next couple of weeks.
Good games are immersive They are especially good if you have to fool your body to get over jet lag. I am sure I could play 24 hours straight with out eating or sleeping. No wonder interactive media is taking its place as number one entertainment . Nobody could watch TV with out eating or falling a sleep. Some games should be categorized as drugs. I have to confess that sometimes my wife or people who I care for (not that I don't care for my wife:)don't get the attention they deserves when I am playing. The good thing about the new Civilization... Its multiplayer. We can play against each another.

Testing Nokia's Mupe platform

Today I will spend five hours studying Mupe platform just because I promised it to my boss. Having a lawyer test "easy" developer platform truly shows how easy the platform really is. I have studied university basics in object oriented java programming but havent coded in twelve months.

MUPE is an Open Source application platform for creating mobile multi-user context-aware applications. The platform can be used to create mobile games, virtual worlds, collaboration applications and any other user authenticated services.

First of all I went and got a sun java wireless toolkit 2.3 Beta that is needed for desktop testing of the client side applications. Now I am reading through Mupe documentation which seems quite straight forward. I think I found a bug in the tutorials though.

I downloaded the MDE.exe and launched it. It wanted to know what programs I use for editing. hmm... I previously used Emacs. Maybe I should install it again.

Dang! not an easy task. FSF is not the most user friendly people at least not when it comes to installing their stuff on Windows. Automatic installer would be nice (hint hint). I guess I will have to set up the Emacs's color coding later. Update... Took me two hours to figure out how and where to define the .emacs file. Now the colors are added to the code.

Update... two hours later. I realized that there are good instructions for how and where to install all the packages. Too bad the website uses frames so making direct links is a pain. Still RTFM. Mupe recommends Eclipse. Oh well I guess I will forget Emacs for now (and those two hours I fought with it)... Plenty of space on my laptop.
Installing Eclipse was a lot easier. Still no installer and didn't stumble on installation instructions. I just unpacked the stuff on the programs folder and it seems to work just fine.

11:59 pm I gotta stop now. Managed to get the tools ready in... 11 hours. Though I did interrupt the session and went to see the Wedding chrashers in the movies -> ok dating movie, kind of reminded me of the Four weddings and a funeral.