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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