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Recent postings OmniWeb updated to version 5.6  10/25/07 Writing an honest novel  10/21/07 Games on the Mac  10/20/07 Hard disks and backups for iMac  10/18/07 Radiohead is doing great  10/17/07 Not rushing to Leopard  10/16/07 Children and the iMac  10/14/07 West has failed to tackle Islam  10/11/07 Myyrmanni, five years ago  10/11/07 Listening to Radiohead  10/10/07 Where is happiness?  10/7/07 Apple says new iMacs have a problem  10/5/07 Backing up to dvd's vs. hard disks  10/4/07 Reading space opera  10/2/07 EyeTV updated to version 2.5  9/24/07 Toysight - game control through video camera  9/19/07 Media, home, and iMac - is there a perfect solutio...  9/18/07 Joost vs. Miro - closed vs. open  9/16/07 Playing computer games in good company  9/16/07 A problem-free day on iMac  9/15/07 Fix for iMac freezes?  9/14/07 Freezes on the new iMac, due to iTunes?  9/12/07 There is no memory in research  9/11/07 Getting to know Nokia E90 Communicator  8/23/07 Why I loathe editing videos  8/21/07 Waiting for iMac  8/16/07 Getting an iMac  8/10/07 Bookcrossing vs. second-hand book dealers  8/6/07 Where is the quality of electronics industry?  8/6/07 Yet another design problem with Nokia E90  8/6/07 Unmasking Fake Steve Jobs  8/6/07 If not e-mail, then what?  8/3/07 Nokia 9300i still broken - design problem with E90  8/3/07 Don't try to collaborate by e-mail  8/2/07 Back to work  8/1/07 The bad quality of Nokia phones  7/6/07 Being 13 years old  7/5/07 Flying start for the iPhone  7/2/07 Digital SLRs and the availability of lenses  7/2/07 Adding copy and paste to iPhone  7/2/07 uʍop ǝpısdn bo1q  7/2/07 The iPod that transformed into a phone  7/1/07 Entry-level digital SLRs get better  7/1/07 Finches live long  7/1/07 New massive server farms at Google  6/21/07 Using a data matrix  6/21/07 Vacation, day one, being sick  6/21/07 Even better entry-level digital SLRs  6/15/07 More emphasis on book reviews  6/14/07 Search is hard to do right  6/7/07 Majority rules minority  6/4/07 Seeking faces with Google  5/30/07 Blue Ocean in Finland  5/29/07 Solving Einstein's Riddle in Python  5/29/07 Real money, virtual worlds  5/28/07 New book reviews  5/25/07 Being honest vs. respecting the customers  5/8/07 Commuting by bicycle - good for thinking  5/7/07 Acting on climate change  5/7/07 Faster, higher, more IT  5/7/07 About email, with depth  5/4/07 Monopolists and new markets  4/20/07 Decreasing the use of paper  4/19/07 Iraq going worse all the time  4/19/07 Virginia shootings and gun control  4/18/07 Google dominates  4/17/07 Listening to music because of iPod  4/10/07 Who offends you?  4/5/07 Wish list for a digital camera  4/5/07 Google Desktop for Mac  4/5/07 Why IT doesn't attract?  4/2/07 The open world of pictures  4/2/07 Are your files saved?  4/2/07 Being stupid while getting a brilliant idea  4/2/07 E-mail that refuses to let go  4/2/07 Working with Apple TV  4/2/07 Not everyone is nice on the net  3/28/07 Is Apple TV the future of TV?  3/26/07 Digital SLRs  3/26/07 Scary-story-but-nothing-to-worry-about  3/20/07 Death of Fortran inventor  3/20/07 Don't sponsor telemarketing  3/19/07 Corrupting Finland  3/19/07 Science, computing, and evolution  3/16/07 Good (and bad) books reviewed  3/12/07 The art of shutting up  3/5/07 Oh where have all the bees gone?  2/27/07 To be natural or kyborg?  2/27/07 Too clean air is a health risk?  2/16/07 Buy a mobile phone for 39 euro  2/12/07 Shanghai - busy but doomed?  2/12/07 Banning iPods - and other devices as well  2/12/07 Hot or even hotter?  2/2/07 To Shanghai  2/2/07 Vista and Microsoft monopoly  1/31/07 Do you know mathematics? How about your children?  1/31/07 They are watching me and you  1/31/07 Who controls you?  1/24/07 Six words stories once again  1/24/07 Neophiliacs rule  1/24/07 Fear could lead to unfair trials  1/24/07 Another Mac convert because of Vista  1/22/07 The perfect phone  1/19/07 Vista converts users to Mac  1/18/07 Hands on iPhone  1/17/07 Two new columns this year  1/17/07 I would buy a Mac if I didn't work for Microsoft (...  12/12/06 Six-word strories about information technology  12/12/06 New book reviews  12/12/06 Google Earth learns new skills  12/12/06 Welcome to the disgraceful  12/11/06 Monster Swiss Army knife  12/7/06 Rumors of Apple iPhone intensify  12/5/06 Compute 45,000 times faster  12/4/06 Going high on the web  11/21/06 Getting infected in a virtual world  11/21/06 Zune selling badly  11/20/06 What happens on Youtube?  11/20/06 Mini-sized killer robots  11/17/06 One again, faster supercomputers  11/16/06 Steve Ballmer wants to squirt you  11/16/06 How (not) to be cool  11/13/06 Where do you want to get arrested today?  11/13/06 Replacing a PowerBook G4 with a MacBook  11/9/06 Losing PlaysForSure  11/9/06 Crackpotting string theory  11/6/06 6-word science fiction  10/26/06 Voice that came back in rhyme  10/25/06 Anniversary of Myyrmanni bombing  10/23/06 Medicine for weirdness in software  10/23/06 Forget openness  10/18/06 New supercomputer for Finland  10/9/06 Nuclear tension  10/9/06 Unsure Zune  10/4/06 Old-fashioned detective stories  10/2/06 Windows and underpants  9/29/06 No new malware for Mac OS X  9/29/06 Plant with a sense of smell  9/29/06 Vista for those who like XP  9/28/06 Satanic devices  9/27/06 The next theory of everything  9/27/06 Hot Skills, Cold Skills  9/25/06 Spying shakes HP at the top  9/25/06 Goodbye to XP  9/25/06 Losing the rights to your music  9/22/06 Amazon's horror show  9/20/06 Microsoft media does not play on Microsoft's devic...  9/20/06 Forced schooling  9/19/06 New book reviews  9/19/06 Buying music or not?  9/18/06 The end of medicine  9/18/06 Catching thieves automatically  9/13/06 School pressure starts early  9/12/06 Holy Church of The Order of The Red Breast  9/12/06 Jet hits WTC in simulation  9/12/06 Math for biosciences  9/4/06 Moon crash  9/4/06 Canon by Funtwo  8/30/06 Print a free book from Google  8/30/06 You can't fool the evidence  8/30/06 What will become of Google and Apple?  8/30/06 When does learning become copyright infringement?  8/29/06 Bedlam in shops  8/28/06 Criminal investigation and human resource manageme...  8/24/06 Back to work  8/21/06 On vacation  7/28/06 Vista, where are you?  7/28/06 A serial, again  7/28/06 How to discuss when the government is listening?  7/27/06 Writing a short story vs. an article  7/27/06 Science fiction about body shop  7/26/06 Bug identification services  7/26/06 Heat causing trouble for athletes  7/25/06 OmniWeb 5.5 - good interface, faster browsing  7/21/06 Google still on top  7/21/06 When decision-makers don't understand the decision...  7/20/06 How happy is your country?  7/20/06 Cheaper insulin  7/20/06 Macs are hot (as in selling well)  7/20/06 Semantic web is too fragile technology  7/19/06 What will happen to public libraries?  7/19/06 Populistic reporting destroys critical thinking  7/19/06 Vader working in a department store  7/18/06 Forgotten music and badly mauled books  7/18/06 Home media not here yet  7/18/06 Waste management in space  7/17/06 Training video on working at helpdesk  7/17/06 Building trust  7/17/06 Is God a Programmer?  7/14/06 Do you need a faster computer?  7/14/06 Maximize Vista delay  7/14/06 Too much help from the computer  7/14/06 Impressive kinetic sculptures  7/11/06 Book reviews in English  7/11/06 False memories  7/10/06 Writing book reviews  7/10/06 Finally, an iPod killer  7/7/06 MacBook - tempting or not?  7/6/06 Update to syncing Entourage (on PowerBook) and Nok...  7/4/06 Syncing Entourage (on PowerBook) and Nokia 9300i  7/3/06 New book reviews  5/30/06 Four columns on the net  5/30/06 Can you think or talk?  4/5/06 Is Apple losing touch on computer security?  3/27/06 Book reviews  3/23/06 Omar Khayyam and the Muhammad cartoons  3/6/06 Hellish broadband in Finland  2/27/06 Are you buying cars or skills?  2/15/06 Endurance flying - further than any other aircraft...  2/9/06 Boosting Creative Commons in Finland  2/8/06 Appearances in presidential elections  1/24/06 Are blogs promising too much?  1/16/06 Are you on the subversives list?  1/5/06 Topics vs. voices  12/30/05 Personal summary for 2005  12/30/05 What were the best "best of lists" in 2005?  12/29/05 Happy Holidays  12/23/05 Unlimited greed of the media companies  12/19/05 PowerBook, Nokia 9500, and bluetooth  12/19/05 Do you want to live in the ubiquitous society?  12/12/05 Two Christmas tales  12/12/05 New book reviews  12/7/05 Linux, Finland and who is the most competitive  12/7/05 Studded winter tyres for the bicycle  12/7/05 Al Gore and who invented the internet  12/7/05 Use Tabasco to deter pigeons?  11/30/05 Being touched by a computer  11/29/05 Introverts have more active brains  11/29/05 Are you cattle?  11/29/05 How wrong can you be?  11/28/05 Sony DRM screwup gets weird  11/21/05 Trying to solve sudokus?  11/15/05 How to write a Christmas tale  11/14/05 Don't rely on aluminium foil helmets  11/14/05 Reinventing the wheel - or reinventing the world?  11/11/05 When the ads and the message don't match  11/10/05 Computer errors - explosions and lethal radiation  11/9/05 iSwitch to iMac  11/7/05 A bright and exciting future awaits us  11/7/05 Bizarre fight between protection schemes on Window...  11/7/05 Does your printer spy on you?  10/31/05 Learn Python  10/27/05 My top 10 English-language novels  10/26/05 Cool visual illusion  10/25/05 All-time best 100 novels  10/25/05 Nightwish drama  10/24/05 Nightwish and changing the singer  10/24/05 Hitchens on fire  10/24/05 The metal band Nightwish kicks out their singer  10/24/05 Computational Science - ensuring the competitivene...  10/19/05 I blog, therefore I am  10/18/05 Hot interest in open source Elmer  10/14/05 Is the blog community becoming a monoculture?  10/14/05 New book reviews  10/13/05 Blogging in Finland  10/13/05 One handed - three days to go  10/13/05 On the mercy of speculative economics  10/10/05 Article about blogging  10/5/05 Open source (GPL) version of Elmer  10/4/05 Pen pals and how the world became a village  10/4/05 Half-blind decision making  9/26/05 Writing with a broken wrist  9/21/05 Censorship on the net  9/7/05 Supercomputing in Finland  8/30/05 Writing about blogging in Finland  8/29/05 Using Google Talk  8/25/05 Tiger security massively updated  8/16/05 Tiger - 32 days and still running  8/16/05 How fit are IT workers?  8/16/05 The new iBook is speedy and pleasant  8/15/05 A (cheap) scanner for photos and film negatives  8/11/05 The new iBook - Yes! Yes! Yes!  8/11/05 Ordered a new iBook  8/10/05 Who you are on the net?  8/9/05 Are you surfing the net or doing work (as supposed...  8/8/05 Will Mac OS X on Intel restrict access to media?  8/8/05 Execution in London  7/25/05 Media everywhere, always  7/25/05 Problems with Mac OS X - or not?  7/25/05 Things which work better in Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4.2...  7/22/05 Two new columns this month  7/20/05 Personal fun with technology  7/19/05 Throw an infected PC to the trash  7/19/05 Tiger is snappier than Panther  7/19/05 Bicycling 1500 kilometers in 14 weeks  7/18/05 Starting to use Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4)  7/15/05 On vacation for a month  6/16/05 Using iPod to escape reality  6/2/05 Apples and antioxidants  5/24/05 Fool those Mac OS X users  5/20/05 Test drive of Tiger - no problems  5/16/05 Is there a need for iPod?  5/16/05 Test-driving Tiger  5/3/05 Tightening the belt  4/29/05 Life without viruses  4/25/05 Computer fakes being human  4/21/05 Windows XP campaign costs more than Apple invested...  4/21/05 Traveling to Denmark  4/11/05 Why Apple doesn't make bicycles?  4/6/05 Bicycles and computers  4/5/05 Well-maintained Mac clusters  4/5/05 Cracking the copy protection is stealing  3/31/05 Commuting by bicycle  3/31/05 Promoting Python  3/30/05 Additional book reviews  3/30/05 On vacation  3/22/05 Too clever tests for humanity  3/15/05 Making information discoverable rather than findab...  3/14/05 Using Nokia 9500 as a GPRS modem over Bluetooth wi...  3/12/05 Skiing in Lappland  3/12/05 How to hide incompetence  3/8/05 Misunderstanding the Cell processor, grid, and sup...  3/7/05 Live dangerously - use an iPod on the street  3/4/05 Intel clones Mac mini  3/4/05 Fascinated by Google  2/24/05 Copyright is not a good deal  2/18/05 Wanting (not needing) an iPod  2/10/05 Testing iWork: Keynote and Pages  2/10/05 iPod upstages Microsoft  2/9/05 Cell revealed  2/8/05 How to turn powerty into opporturnity  2/8/05 Hating PowerPoint  2/7/05 When information technology became fun  2/7/05 The magic number 4086  2/7/05 Mac mini reviewed  2/4/05 Clusters of Xserve G5s  2/3/05 Handwriting analysis of Bill Gates  1/31/05 There is a new virus: code name is "work"  1/28/05 Does IT diminish knowledge?  1/27/05 Mac is 21 years of age  1/26/05 iPod shuffle - easy and small  1/26/05 Updating the CV  1/24/05 2005 - the year of VoIP?  1/24/05 Using X11 on Mac OS X  1/24/05 Using IT - confusion instead of clarity  1/21/05 Should we use a computer or are you in a hurry?  1/20/05 Nokia 9500 and bluetooth connection to PowerBook  1/17/05 This is a mirror year  1/14/05 Educational global climate models (GCMs)  1/14/05 Using Nokia 9500 Communicator  1/13/05 Getting an iPod Shuffle  1/12/05 Don't use Internet Explorer (reason number 39387)  1/11/05 Whose side should you be on in Iraq?  1/11/05 To fix or to write new code?  1/11/05 A tsunami explained and illustrated  1/4/05 On vacation until January 3rd, 2005  12/23/04 Different experiences of PowerBook  12/23/04 Bewitched by the printed book  12/22/04 Two years of using PowerBook at work  12/21/04 Get a better browser  12/21/04 Secrets of the universe inspire young people  12/15/04 Searching for the lost life  12/9/04 Researchers agree on global climate change  12/8/04 Celebrating the Finnish independence day  12/7/04 The information society is sick  12/2/04 First clone of iMac G5?  11/30/04 Promoting Firefox  11/30/04 Are you system intelligent?  11/30/04 Firefox is hot  11/30/04 Apple and Nokia don't mix well  11/28/04 Millions suffer because a £400m payment system fai...  11/26/04 Buying a box of 446 songs at iTunes Music Store  11/25/04 Windows pests are hard to eradicate  11/24/04 Requiem for Watson  11/24/04 Google taking over the desktop?  11/23/04 Google focused on research  11/22/04 Updated list of book reviews  11/22/04 In memory of the Model T Ford  11/17/04 Space in news  11/17/04 Don't trust Wikipedia  11/17/04 Control the use of PCs at work  11/15/04 Cleaning up the software mess  11/15/04 Storing your life on disk  11/11/04 System X fastest academic supercomputer  11/10/04 Solve hi-res printing problems with AirPort Extrem...  11/10/04 How a cell works - metabolic models  11/9/04 How a chess machine thinks  11/9/04 A bluetooth headset for mobile phone and PowerBook...  11/9/04 How to write a Christmas tale  11/9/04 Review of iMac G5  11/9/04 What technologies will change the world?  11/4/04 Strong and wrong - Bush respected at home, disresp...  11/4/04 iTunes Music Store stretches the credit limit  11/2/04 The best PDA - Nokia 9500 Communicator  11/2/04 Malware for Mac OS X - don't be stupid  11/1/04 Select Google-optimized names for your children  11/1/04 iTunes Music Store finally opens in Finland  10/27/04 Closed vs. open  10/26/04 Is Finland the most competitive country in to worl...  10/22/04 AI help to cure cancer  10/19/04 Best Unix desktop: Mac OS X  10/15/04 Selected memory at Microsoft  10/14/04 Reviewing the tempting iMac G5  10/13/04 A six-fold increase in malware  10/12/04 Podcasts for self-important people  10/12/04 Penalty tax for computers  10/12/04 Trying out the iMac G5 - setup couldn't be easier  10/8/04 Software updates: BBEdit 8.0 and OmniWeb 5.1  10/7/04 The new iMac G5 - a replacement for a laptop?  10/7/04 Networking, Windows insecurity and supercomputing  10/7/04 A new member in the family  10/7/04 Raving about iMac G5  9/23/04 Tobacco 'smokesmen' on fire  9/23/04 The real home computer in 2004  9/22/04 IT departments love Microsoft, users don't  9/22/04 Don't expect Microsoft to protect your network  9/21/04 Fighting about Gaussian - banning, hypocrisy, and ...  9/21/04 How to survive the increasing stress at work?  9/17/04 Tabasco deters furry gluttons  9/14/04 USA leadership benefits from the insurgency in Ira...  9/14/04 Traveling next week  9/10/04 Killing unnecessary IT projects  9/9/04 Shy Perelman impresses with math breaktrough  9/9/04 Do you trust your spam filters? (Over 1000 spam me...  9/8/04 If it sucks, make it more complicated  9/7/04 Finns vote for Kerry  9/6/04 Will Longhorn survive surgery?  9/3/04 Windows trojan takes over webcams  9/1/04 Using iTunes Music Shop as a library  9/1/04 New G5-based iMac tempts with power and elegance  8/31/04 Meet my heroes on the net  8/31/04 Hot text: from trivial to useful  8/31/04 Non-Windows users should rejoice quietly  8/30/04 What are you listening to?  8/30/04 Lies protect the emperor without clothes  8/27/04 Net dating is not for nerds only  8/26/04 Buying and maintaining Linux clusters in partnersh...  8/26/04 Managing a new group  8/24/04 Using OmniWeb 5.0 instead of Safari  8/23/04 Do-it-yourself career in stealing credit-card numb...  8/20/04 Spam like poetry  8/19/04 Lil' Kim fills a much-needed hole  8/19/04 Is this parody or not?  8/18/04 Programming languages: practicality vs. design  8/17/04 Reviewing Joel on Software  8/16/04 What is the best programming language?  8/16/04 Reading Down and out in the Magic Kingdom  8/16/04 Why programmers don't like to use programs?  8/16/04 You can go further than you think you can  8/16/04 Olympics, Inc.  8/13/04 Should you hire a hacker, or a professional?  8/13/04 Big Brother, Inc.  8/12/04 A book review offer via Technocrati  8/12/04 The spirit of the Olympics: "You are faster than y...  8/12/04 Communication usually fails, except by accident  8/11/04 100 spam messages per day  8/11/04 Column on net addicts discharged from the Finnish ...  8/11/04 Using a thesaurus for writing  8/11/04 Multiphysical modeling, Diffpack and Elmer  8/10/04 Future of scientific computing  8/10/04 Simple things which even the fastest supercomputer...  8/9/04 How many diapers have you changed?  8/9/04 Being personal: opinions vs. knowledge  8/9/04 Reviewing Dive into Python  8/6/04 Ishi, the last Yahi Indian  8/6/04 A goldeneye hanged by a squirrel (not for the fain...  8/5/04 Internet addiction as an excuse from military serv...  8/5/04 What is the purpose of this?  8/4/04 Record number of spam messages  8/3/04 How readable are my writings?  8/2/04 Rainy summer in Finland - reading 12 books in 16 d...  8/2/04 Starting my vacation  7/16/04 IT products for the intoxicated  7/16/04 Forming opinions based on the strength of a social...  7/16/04 Sony Ericsson P910 - the killer smart phone?  7/16/04 How opinions spread in a social structure  7/15/04 Michael Moore obeys his partiotic duty  7/15/04 Quantum cryptography is in practical use today  7/15/04 Loony stories of iPod  7/15/04 What does your Dock look like?  7/14/04 Write to practice, not to publish  7/14/04 How to smoothly upgrade to a new Mac  7/13/04 Ripping to iPod  7/13/04 Will the Grid survive?  7/12/04 The attraction of iTunes Music Store  7/12/04 Mouse gestures help browsing in Safari  7/9/04 Fun with GeekTool on Mac OS X  7/8/04 New weblog every 5.8 seconds  7/7/04 Bill to kill iPod  7/7/04 Develop information techology for the intoxicated  7/6/04 Free Culture available for download  7/6/04 Developing the Stockholm syndrome  7/6/04 A hippopotamus in the living room  7/6/04 Tamper-proof digital images  7/5/04 Copyrights in Finland  7/5/04 Support Free Culture  7/5/04 Moore supporting illegal downloads of Fahrenheit 9...  7/5/04 About Moomin and Finland  7/2/04 What kind of atmosphere does Titan have?  7/2/04 Finnish contribution to the Cassini spacecraft at ...  7/1/04 Fighting over Dashboard  7/1/04 Dashboard: web widgets available with the touch of...  7/1/04 The Dashboard widgets in Mac OS X 10.4 are web pag...  6/30/04 Digital camera reviews on the net  6/30/04 Controversy about Konfabulator vs. Mac OS X 10.4 '...  6/30/04 Use the GiD preprocessor with Elmer to solve multi...  6/29/04 Simulate global climate change at home  6/28/04 Buy both an iPod and a Nomad  6/28/04 Greetings from Moominworld!  6/28/04 Updated Top 500 supercomputer list  6/28/04 Being proud of your children  6/28/04 On vacation next week  6/18/04 Are Windows-only web services the new trend?  6/18/04 Was the man who shot Governor-General Bobrikov a t...  6/18/04 French fries as vegetables  6/16/04 Break the Microsoft Monopoly on web browsers  6/16/04 Finnair does not want Tim Berners-Lee as a custome...  6/15/04 A ladybug with with white dots  6/14/04 Don't make an IT product which actully works  6/14/04 Fortran 2003 - an improvement or a mistake?  6/14/04 Less or more spam?  6/14/04 Back from Tromso, Norway  6/14/04 On stealing passwords  6/9/04 Visiting Norway tomorrow  6/9/04 Generating big mazes (non-recursively) with Python  6/9/04 Apple fixed the serious security problems - finall...  6/8/04 Wireless music with AirPort Express  6/8/04 Drawing a maze with Python  6/7/04 Object-oriented problem-solving with Python  6/2/04 A column on security and privacy  6/2/04 Reviewing Office 2004 for Mac  6/2/04 Scripting Entourage 2004: moving/copying messages ...  6/1/04 On the sturgeon and caviare  6/1/04 Will all mobile phone be like Nokia 6820?  5/31/04 Easy password to launch nuclear missiles  5/31/04 Can a camera phone topple an imperium?  5/31/04 Experiences of Entourage 2004 vs. Mac OS X Mail  5/31/04 Some personally astonishing things: Minolta XG-1, ...  5/28/04 The Hen (An Appreciation)  5/28/04 More on testing Office 2004 for Mac  5/28/04 Wireless printing at home  5/28/04 Visiting Norway on June 10-11  5/27/04 Wired: 40 top leaders of technology and innovation  5/27/04 Test driving Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac  5/27/04 First astonishing, then commonplace  5/26/04 Preventing break-ins on Mac OS X  5/26/04 Sets in Python  5/25/04 Documented Python code for solving the so-called E...  5/25/04 Solving the Einstein's Riddle in Python  5/24/04 List processing in Python  5/24/04 Are Mac users the muslims of PC-dominated world?  5/24/04 Another fix for the Mac OS X vulnerability  5/21/04 Will Apple pass the test: serious vulnerability on...  5/19/04 The tide and ebb of spam  5/19/04 The noble origin of optimization  5/19/04 531 spam e-mails in a week  5/18/04 Fighting against the open source community  5/18/04 More book reviews  5/17/04 How to help USA to get rid of the scum  5/17/04 Using Python for scripting web services  5/13/04 Crude music service from Sony?  5/12/04 A new way of scripting Cisco VPN  5/12/04 Raising chicken: where to do it, and how to avoid ...  5/11/04 Chewing a USB flash memory  5/10/04 Using the iBook wirelessly in the garden  5/10/04 Learning how to make an impact  5/7/04 Is Mac OS X really more secure than Windows?  5/4/04 Learning smalltalk - "Have you tortured more priso...  5/4/04 On security: Windows vs. Mac OS X  5/3/04 Recipe for scripting Cisco VPN connections  5/3/04 Hardware and software for sound on Mac OS X  4/30/04 A glimpse of history: the first Apple virus  4/30/04 My first try at a non-trivial Python program: solv...  4/30/04 Learning Python from the book Python in a Nutshell  4/29/04 Learning Python for scientific computing  4/28/04 Using Python for scientific computing on Mac OS X  4/27/04 Learning Python programming on Mac OS X  4/27/04 Why Windows manages to survive despite a high tota...  4/26/04 A solution for scripting Cisco VPN with Expect  4/26/04 Automating Cisco VPN connections with Expect  4/26/04 We live in an encrypted world (you don't survive w...  4/26/04 Ripping a copy-protected 'cd' into iTunes  4/23/04 Finns are lacking skills as spammers  4/23/04 Software outliving the hardware on Macs?  4/23/04 Automating the command-line interface to Cisco VPN...  4/23/04 Apple computers endure better than Windows machine...  4/22/04 Problems with Cisco VPN on Mac OS X  4/22/04 My old iBook is getting faster all the time  4/22/04 Smalltalk developer is honored  4/22/04 Using WLAN at home securely  4/21/04 New web site for Finnish Operations Research Socie...  4/21/04 Ordered an inkjet: Canon i455  4/21/04 Double the battery life on G3 iBook with a new bat...  4/21/04 Using AirPort Extreme at home  4/20/04 New Apple iBooks and PowerBooks are tempting  4/20/04 Selecting a color printer - revisited (Canon BJC i...  4/19/04 Updated the CV  4/19/04 What printer to buy (for printing wirelessly throu...  4/19/04 Notes on using WLAN at home  4/19/04 About secure wireless  4/16/04 Having broadband at home (and WLAN to come)  4/16/04 Record number of spam messages  4/15/04 Feedback about WLAN base stations  4/15/04 What does UP actually mean?  4/15/04 Decided what WLAN base station to buy: Apple AirPo...  4/14/04 Net column on bribery or creative marketing from M...  4/14/04 On mathematicians and blackboards  4/8/04 Thinking further about which WLAN base station to ...  4/8/04 Yet more about using pdfLaTeX  4/8/04 Discussing experiences of TeX as a typesetting eng...  4/8/04 Which WLAN base station to use at home?  4/7/04 Buy-buy Classic, I'm now Mac OS X all the way  4/7/04 Further questions about pdfLaTeX  4/7/04 Adding a print button to Safari  4/7/04 Producing quality PDF documents with LaTeX  4/2/04 My April 1st column  4/1/04 Collaboration over the net  3/30/04 Teaching parallel programming with MPI  3/29/04 Modeling electrostatics  3/26/04 How Microsoft tried to hurt a competitor  3/26/04 Apple Cluster for Bioinformatics  3/26/04 Apple releases Xgrid T.P. 2  3/26/04 Feet size 13 (or 47 in Finnish units)  3/26/04 Media training  3/24/04 Can EU control Microsoft?  3/24/04 Microsoft against the European Union revisited  3/23/04 Teaching parallel programming with MPI  3/22/04 Ordering music from the net  3/19/04 Modeling dissipative acoustics with Elmer  3/19/04 Getting broadband (sort of)  3/19/04 A new visiting researcher  3/19/04 Modeling acoustic waves with Elmer  3/18/04 How to grow up with guns in the family  3/17/04 Stream lines of the flow  3/16/04 This is how PowerPoint was born  3/15/04 Modeling fluid flow with Elmer  3/12/04 Biology journal with open access  3/12/04 Why blogs are useful  3/11/04 Social networking: LinkedIn, Orkut, ICQ Universe, ...  3/11/04 Modeling an elastic linear plate with Elmer  3/11/04 Blogging as literacy in Europe and Scandinavia  3/10/04 EB 2004: I bought it for the articles, not for the...  3/10/04 More about the ignorance society  3/10/04 The slowness of Britannica  3/9/04 Modeling a loaded elastic beam with Elmer  3/9/04 Computers are an environmental hazard  3/9/04 Google kills encyclopedias?  3/9/04 The ignorance society  3/8/04 Solving a radiation heat transfer problem with Elm...  3/8/04 Spam on the rise  3/5/04 Using Elmer in industry  3/5/04 Solving a temperature distribution problem with BE...  3/5/04 Learning Elmer by the tutorial  3/4/04 Lecturing to Korean visitors  3/4/04 Collaboration on the net  3/4/04 Elmer 3.0 available for Mac OS X  3/1/04 Teaching Fortran 90/95 programming  3/1/04 The IBM renaming project  2/27/04 The future of Elmer: solving the grand challenges ...  2/27/04 Meet the new Vice-Chairman of the Board  2/26/04 GNU/Linux Summit  2/26/04 Additional notes about Elmer  2/26/04 Videoconferencing between Mac OS X and Windows  2/26/04 Using Elmer 3.0 on Mac OS X  2/25/04 Porting Elmer 3.0 to Mac OS X  2/25/04 Grid workshop in Finland (CSC, Espoo, Finland, Mar...  2/25/04 Multiphysical modeling on Mac OS X  2/24/04 Expensive broadband in Finland  2/23/04 Social networking in a networked world  2/23/04 iSight need still improvement?  2/23/04 Better iSight software  2/20/04 Attending GNU/Linux Summit '04  2/18/04 A songbird sings  2/16/04 Good reading  2/16/04 Failing software projects  2/12/04 A nerd's growth path  2/12/04 Microfluidics: the next hype?  2/12/04 Beware the Mad Hatter in IT projects  2/10/04 Do cellular automata explain life, universe, and ....  2/9/04 On M. 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Escher  2/6/04 Ricin on the rise  2/5/04 Encyclopedia Britannica: I bought it for the artic...  2/4/04 Thanks for the attention  2/2/04 When Windows leaks...  2/2/04 Gaining attention  1/30/04 VT G5 cluster and ECC memory  1/30/04 Videoconferencing with Marratech Pro  1/29/04 25,415 spam messages  1/29/04 When Windows leaks, bullshit flows  1/29/04 Record number of spam messages  1/28/04 Review of Lessons in Project Management  1/27/04 Book on solving optimization problems  1/27/04 Finished a book  1/26/04 A look at secret new Apple computer  1/19/04 Yet more feedback about PowerPoint  1/19/04 PowerPoint column still generating comments  1/9/04 Taking a vacation  1/9/04 A new coat made with phase change materials (PCM)  1/9/04 Controversy about PowerPoint  1/7/04 Apple Xserve G5 and Xgrid software  1/7/04 How PowerPoint destroyed the space shuttle Columbi...  1/5/04 Who was first with 64-bit computing?  1/5/04 The future is now  1/2/04 Over 2000 photos in half a year  1/2/04 A Happy New Year!  12/31/03 How to get traffic to a site  12/30/03 This is why there is less spam?  12/30/03 Spammers are on a Christmas vacation?  12/30/03 What have I done?  12/29/03 Why people visit this weblog?  12/29/03 Back to work  12/29/03 Have a nice week  12/19/03 Inventor of the modern airplane: Sir George Cayley  12/17/03 Three best products of the year 2003  12/17/03 Not giving Christmas gifts  12/10/03 Lecturing on parallel programming with MPI  12/8/03 More and more spam  12/8/03 Guide on mathematical software  12/8/03 Mac user test drives KDE  12/4/03 Aikido skills needed for working with MS Word  12/3/03 Fortran 95 on Mac OS X  12/1/03 The future of internet  11/26/03 Grid computing community  11/26/03 Helping Mac OS X to grow: buy software!  11/25/03 Top-10 science articles  11/19/03 Money-making Windows  11/17/03 Christmas will be hot spam season  11/17/03 How many source lines of code (SLOC) in Red Hat 9,...  11/17/03 The PayPal scam  11/17/03 Top 500 supercomputers: Apple G5 supercluster in t...  11/17/03 Making equations on Mac OS X  11/17/03 Programming on Mac OS X  11/13/03 PathFinder and Watson: good tools for Mac OS X  11/12/03 Coolest Inventions 2003: New Black  11/10/03 Once again, trouble starting up Matlab  11/10/03 Panther: a multi-user system  11/10/03 Writing about moral, ethics, Linux, and Windows  11/6/03 Getting Cisco VPN 4.0.2C to work on Panther  11/6/03 How fast is Panther compared to Jaguar?  11/6/03 Over 2000 readers in a day...  11/5/03 Apple G5 supercluster appears twice on the top-500...  11/4/03 Writing a Christmas tale (in Finnish)  11/4/03 Inspired by Nokia: sidetalking  11/3/03 Apple G5 dual supercluster achieves over 10 terafl...  11/3/03 Updated impressions of the G5 supercluster  10/30/03 Smiling the Panther smile  10/29/03 Apple G5 dual supercluster now third fastest super...  10/29/03 Disliking Apple G5 supercluster  10/29/03 CopyPaste causes problems on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panthe...  10/28/03 Running Panther  10/28/03 Thinking about the future of internet  10/27/03 Installing Panther  10/27/03 Addendum on FUD at Jargon File Resources  10/27/03 Searching full text of books at Amazon  10/27/03 The Apple G5 dual supercluster achieves 8.16 teraf...  10/23/03 Preliminary speed of the G5 cluster: 7.41 teraflop...  10/23/03 User guides to an IBM SC supercomputer and an Comp...  10/21/03 Presentation on Mac OS X for Unix users  10/21/03 Facilities at Virginia Tech  10/21/03 Mathematics at Google  10/21/03 Writing a new column  10/20/03 Consulting the national tv broadcasting company  10/20/03 Bush defines a free nation  10/16/03 Updated guide to Mac OS X (in Finnish)  10/16/03 Updated impressions of the G5 cluster  10/16/03 Impressions of the G5 system at Virginia  10/15/03 Pondering the Virginia Tech G5 cluster  10/15/03 Big Mac by Apple vs. Lonestar by Dell in supercomp...  10/15/03 Software projects are (a little) different  10/15/03 G5 cluster at Virginia Tech  10/14/03 How to write a better weblog  10/14/03 New column about conversation in the workplace (in...  10/13/03 A collection of slogans (in Finnish)  10/13/03 Top 10 Most Brilliant Advertising Mess Ups  10/13/03 Differences between Microsoft and Open Source  10/13/03 One year from the Myyrmanni bombing  10/13/03 Nokia exploding batteries revisited  10/10/03 Laptops rule  10/6/03 Life without pop-ups  10/3/03 Using Mac OS X Mail  10/3/03 Here is my Dock  10/2/03 3G base stations cause headaches, nausea  10/1/03 How many mammary glands humans have?  10/1/03 iBlog is popular  9/30/03 Managed to publish to .Mac with iBlog  9/29/03 iBlog from Apple?  9/29/03 Microsoft monopoly is a security risk  9/26/03 How Italians are different than other Europeans  9/26/03 New column about Finnish killer applications  9/25/03 Planning for the future  9/22/03 We found a bug in the web  9/16/03 Why Identity Theft is a Growth Industry  9/15/03 Updated collection of Mac OS X articles (in Finnis...  9/9/03 Testing the Fortran 90/95 compilers by IBM and Abs...  9/9/03 Having a corner room is a pain  9/9/03 IBM Fortran and C/C++ compilers available for Mac ...  9/1/03 Starting at the new office  9/1/03 What is this?  8/29/03 New column on SCO vs. Linux  8/29/03 Moving to a new office  8/29/03 I like the Google calculator  8/27/03 Instant messages beat e-mail  8/27/03 Sobig.F causes problems even on Mac OS X  8/25/03 This is getting weird  8/22/03 Slogan for Microsoft to get users to update their ...  8/22/03 Some people actually work  8/20/03 An e-mail worm on the loose in Finland  8/19/03 Testing iSight and iChat AV  8/18/03 Writing other things instead of blogging  8/18/03 Wireless slave of freedom  8/15/03 Failing to register additional disk space  8/14/03 The effectivity of Mac OS X spam filter  8/13/03 A standard for infinite monkeys  8/12/03 Tools for working on the net using Mac OS X  8/12/03 Story of H. C. Andersen  8/12/03 European Peacock  8/12/03 Videoconferencing standards  8/12/03 VIdeoconferencing interoperability  8/11/03 Making iChat AV work with Firewalls  8/8/03 Resources for videoconferencing  8/8/03 New book reviews  8/8/03 A great read  8/6/03 Insiders at SCO selling shares  8/6/03 Switched to Norton Anti-Virus for Macintosh  8/5/03 Testing iSight with iChat AV, ohphoneX, EvoCam etc...  8/5/03 Purchased EvoCam to be used with iSight  8/5/03 iSight working fine  8/5/03 Getting iSight to work  8/4/03 Record number of spam e-mail  8/4/03 A bit more about Sync  8/2/03 Some good books I have read recently  8/1/03 Trying to trick with a PayPal e-mail  7/27/03 Went away for a week  7/27/03 Analysis of x86 vs. PowerPC processors  7/12/03 One eye shut in the light  7/12/03 Bush Asks Congress For $30 Billion To Help Fight W...  7/9/03 A dim bulb  7/8/03 Four weeks on vacation  7/4/03 Ramming Berlusconi  7/1/03 The Godfather in charge of Europe  7/1/03 iChat compared  7/1/03 iChat standards  6/30/03 Videoconferencing on Mac OS X  6/27/03 Getting Matlab 6.5 to run with X11 by Apple on Mac...  6/27/03 iSight will sell Macs  6/25/03 iChat AV and the H.323 videoconferencing standard  6/24/03 Apple videoconferencing - iChat AV and iSight  6/24/03 New supercomputer Top 500 list released  6/24/03 Playing Blogshares  6/23/03 Putting down Internet Explorer on Mac  6/23/03 Sweden To Outlaw File Sharing, Crypto Breaking?  6/19/03 Differences between creativity and innovation  6/17/03 This is an overpriced blog  6/16/03 Blogshares captured  6/13/03 Translating LaTeX to text  6/10/03 Technorati search for weblogs  6/10/03 Premium Blogshares  6/10/03 535 pictures in 10 days  6/9/03 About the Finnish version of baseball  6/9/03 Review of Universal Rule  6/6/03 Better Keynote  6/6/03 Me and my Ixus 400  6/4/03 Nokia on top  6/4/03 Relations of managers and subordinates  6/2/03 Using Canon Digital Ixus 400  5/30/03 Finally getting Canon Digital Ixus 400  5/28/03 Microsoft Prepares Alternative To Apple iTunes  5/28/03 Getting Canon Ixus 400  5/27/03 Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It  5/26/03 Writing about Apple Music Store  5/26/03 Spell-checking Finnish for LaTeX  5/26/03 Further use of Nokia 6800  5/26/03 Experiences of the Nokia 6800 mobile phone  5/26/03 Testing Nokia 6800  5/23/03 Welcome spammers  5/23/03 Guide on Mac OS X (in Finnish)  5/22/03 Column about supercomputing  5/22/03 Gifts at BlogShares  5/22/03 Dangerous spam  5/22/03 Reporting on scientific computing  5/21/03 Thinking about Canon Digital Ixus 400  5/20/03 Publishing books in PDF on the net  5/20/03 Pondering Canon Digital Ixus 400  5/19/03 Away for a few days  5/14/03 Lund University launches directory of open access ...  5/14/03 Ancient Chinese curse that was recently invented  5/14/03 Calendar mixed up at Microsoft  5/13/03 Updated my CV  5/12/03 Moving the blogroll  5/9/03 Ali G is wicked  5/9/03 Don't trust the spam  5/9/03 Measuring the blood pressure  5/9/03 A career in supercomputing  5/8/03 AAC is hot  5/8/03 Is USA becoming Culture?  5/8/03 Apple music store vs. Amazon  5/7/03 Planets in our solar system have IP addresses  5/6/03 About USA losing to Denmark in ice hockey World Ch...  5/5/03 Encyclopedia Britannica in action  5/2/03 Nokia mobile phones, SyncML, and Mac OS X  5/2/03 How good is the AAC music format?  5/2/03 Using Encyclopedia Britannica on a PowerBook  5/2/03 Spam must be labeled  5/2/03 iTunes 4 and music in AAC format  5/2/03 The Mathematics of Marriage  4/28/03 Blogshares is fun  4/25/03 Research data should be made public  4/24/03 SARS virus spreads also on PCs  4/24/03 Ease of IT makes things difficult  4/24/03 Fight against spam  4/24/03 Ordering Encyclopedia Britannica  4/23/03 EBI guides on bioinformatics  4/23/03 Fighting spam  4/23/03 Ten years ago: browsing the web with Mosaic  4/23/03 Where spam originates?  4/23/03 Trading in virtual blog stock  4/22/03 Without the net  4/22/03 Collaborative editing for Mac OS X  4/17/03 What happens after the human genome?  4/17/03 Finland will have a woman both as the President an...  4/16/03 Receiving feedback about your writing  4/15/03 The Unknown  4/14/03 Column about camera-equipped mobile phones  4/14/03 Three new book reviews  4/9/03 Most Stupid Security Measures  4/9/03 Scaling of the ecosystem of networks  4/9/03 Grids see black holes powering supercomputers  4/9/03 Reviewing Bioinformatics for Dummies  4/9/03 Column about efficiency to appear next week  4/8/03 Bioinformatics for Dummies  4/7/03 More about efficiency in the workplace  4/7/03 Efficiency in the workplace  4/6/03 Virtual blood with an virtual needle  4/5/03 SARS linked to birds  4/5/03 Mac OS X spam filter  4/5/03 The state of the grid, or return from Manchester  4/5/03 Finland to have woman as President and Prime Minis...  4/5/03 Reviewing books once again  4/3/03 Traveling to Manchester  4/1/03 Opposing the war: EU rules for tenders  4/1/03 How to oppose the US hegemony?  3/31/03 Digital camera, finally?  3/31/03 Changing the style of blogging  3/31/03 Prime numbers not so random?  3/28/03 Dear War Protesters  3/28/03 Reasons not to become a scientist  3/28/03 Fierce combatant  3/28/03 Half warm  3/27/03 USA, the politically correct killing machine  3/27/03 The protectionism of USA  3/27/03 Will Finland be number one in the future?  3/26/03 Hit songs by science?  3/26/03 A lesson in humility  3/26/03 Systems Biology resources  3/25/03 The Treasure Trove of Our Genes  3/25/03 Michael Moore's 'Bowling for Columbine'  3/24/03 The war is dirty  3/24/03 Nationalism: the Iraqi backbone  3/24/03 Apple Keynote: beautiful presentations easily  3/23/03 CNN and the denial of death  3/22/03 Flying, and back again  3/21/03 Flying tomorrow  3/20/03 The least free press in the world  3/20/03 The freedom of press and media worldwide  3/20/03 Zen Bush koan  3/20/03 What is the opposite of wisdom?  3/20/03 Strategic planning  3/20/03 Usefulness of customer surveys  3/19/03 Traveling in the time of war  3/19/03 I like performance reviews  3/19/03 What is a weblog in Finnish?  3/19/03 Blogs are better than journalism?  3/19/03 Weblogs as the meme machine  3/18/03 Semantic Blogging for Bibliographies  3/18/03 Books about networks  3/17/03 Island-mapping for weblogs  3/17/03 Web and NCSA Mosaic 10 years ago  3/17/03 Weblog analysis by communities  3/17/03 Elections is Finland  3/17/03 Update to Weblogs on the borderline of control and...  3/14/03 The RSS Search Engine Formerly Known as Roogle  3/14/03 Ending Microsoft's abuse of a dominant position  3/13/03 Lecturing to the Gray Panthers of Finnish IT  3/13/03 What is a weblog in Finnish?  3/13/03 Essay on Topology  3/12/03 Weblogs on the borderline of control and chaos  3/11/03 Towards a centralized weblogging community  3/11/03 Who is in control: the technology or the users?  3/11/03 How to be familiar and different: the key to inven...  3/10/03 Weblog communities as islands: improving diversity  3/10/03 Weblogs as worldview tuners  3/10/03 How to choose links  3/10/03 The dynamics of weblogs vs. the island model?  3/9/03 Agile project management  3/9/03 Updated blogroll  3/8/03 Reading and writing  3/8/03 A pre-emptive strike on terrorism  3/7/03 A small kind of happiness  3/7/03 Ego need for blogging  3/7/03 Do you blog?  3/6/03 Bayesian filtering for news aggregators?  3/6/03 The 2000 postings milestone  3/6/03 The corporate weblogger test  3/5/03 How many diapers have you changed?  3/5/03 Private vs. public information  3/5/03 A net column explained  3/5/03 Writings, for all to see  3/4/03 At home, with children  3/3/03 Microsoft present and future  3/3/03 Leash the car drivers!  3/3/03 Why to blog, or not to blog  3/2/03

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