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20041214 HauskaaJoulua 2004
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Kuvia löytyy Flickr-sivultani.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Testing

I have reinstalled my workstation, and am considering of using a hosted blog service again... It would be either this or Spaces.

I may go with Spaces, since it has pictures support.

New host

I'll use my ISP web space (only 10M and only html). Nameservers should update after a couple of days... Lets see how this works out. I'm using sitecopy to duplicate my local movabletype site to the ISP.

The familiar domain oliverw.net should redirect to the new server www.pp.htv.fi/oweinits/.

Back

Back again. My hosting service ended and I need a new home. The template is still all wrong... I'll fix it soon. I might also use my ISP web server...

This is my last entry. My new home is www.oliverw.net.

I finally managed to get my own domain: www.oliverw.net. I'll be moving this stuff over there in a few days and close the pages hosted at blogspot and blogger. Blogger is fabulous, but I craved for more.
I'll propably leave my entries at blogspot around for a while with a notice that it's also elsewhere. After all google has a pretty good index of it. Since I don't have any incoming links, the move should be fairly easy.

The moon hoax claims must be familiar to many. I just saw an episode of The Planets (ep. 4), and it shows NASA re-creating a rather large portion of the moon. The blew up a part of a desert to simulate the craters of the moon. This would familiarize the astronauts to the environment. If some passer by would see this, it might create some confusion. My guess is it did, and the rumours were originally based on such sightings.

Btw the movie For All Mankind is fantastic. It's about the first moon landings. The movie itself is of bad quality and cut from very old material... but it does have one argument not many movies can claim... the movie ends with the words "...filmed on location". (Still makes me shiver.)

More amazing stuff: Nanometer-Scale Light Source. They made a lightsource with 2-8 silver atoms.

Soon we will have all kinds of nano machines available. Too weird. When I was a kid this stuff was in science fiction and it's feels really weird to see it in real life.

I wonder if we can harness sub-quantum structures in some way. Like having a super computer the size of an atom. Or transferring an AI through an atom size wormhole.

Kuvia ja videopätkiä Hauskoilla Sivuilla.

"Etelä-Suomen Kerrostalokyttääjät ry. on vuonna 1965 perustettu järjestö, joka valvoo ns. "kyttääjien" etuja. Kyttääjät ovat tunnollisia kansalaisia, jotka valvovat vapaa-aikanaan kerrostalossa naapuriensa elämää ja taloyhtiön järjestystä."

Suomenkielisten vitsien hakemistosta löytyy sähköposteista tms. kerättyjä juttuja jokunen kappale.

I just couldn't stay away from the latest craze. Here's the genealogy tree of Oliver Weinitschke Blog.

Tuntuu hieman hassulta kirjoitella välillä Suomeksi, kun on oikeastaan käyttänyt vain Englantia. Mutta osa tutuista osaa vain Englantia. Mutta toisaalta suurempi osaa osaa Suomea. Ja toisaalta jos tästä sattuisi olemaan iloa isommalle yleisölle, olisi Englanti kivempi.

Mutta ei tämä oikeasti paljoa murehdituta. Kirjoitan jollakin kielellä ja siirrän vastuun lukijalle.

Tuli vaan mieleen kun luin tommipommia (1.8.).

I am a Breakout Bat.
I am an abstract sort of creature, who dislikes any sort of restraint. If you try to pigeonhole me, I'll break the box, and come back for more. I don't have any particular ambitions, I just drift, but I am adept at keeping life going along. What Video Game Character Are You?

It would appear that our brain has a builtin circuit for detecting cheats. New Scientist and Brain's 'cheat detector' is revealed.

Part of the human brain is dedicated to detecting cheats, say evolutionary psychologists, after a study with a brain-damaged man.

"Drink several glasses of water daily." I've heard this advice too from various sources. It's apparently a myth. Dave Harris writes about it in his blog. The news itself was found in American Journal of Physiology.
The american version of this myth has apparently a lot more details. Like it's 8 x 8oz daily, and that it does not include other drinks (like soda).

Of course you should try it yourself and see what amount of water does you good. For many drinking water has definite positive effects.

Don't Link to Us! is a blog about sites that would like to prohibit links to their site and/or pages.
Thanks for the link, visakopu.

Lai Lai Boy wrote a summary about Anime and its history called "Anime: A Primer". And yes, most of the Studio Ghibli movies are really that good. Currently there are 3 Ghibli movies on the IMDB top 10 (of 50) all time Animation movies: Mononoke Hime, Grave of the Fireflies and Spirited Away. I can also recommend Tonari no Totoro (ranking: 15) - a movie I've seen already several times and expect to see again and again. Read Roger Eberts review.

BAEN is selling the next Honor Harrington book "War of Honor" with a CD-ROM included. It has 22 complete novels on it - including the previous Harrington books. Unencrypted.

Excellent idea and I'll be ordering the book soon. Mainly because I just love the Harrington series. The CD is an excellent bonus, even if books are kinda tiresome to read on an iPaq.

I've read two books an a bunch of arcticles on my iPaq. It's not that bad actually. The screen is great and easy to read, but:
- I occasionally lost a bookmark. Keeping track of the position you are reading is sometimes difficult. The page numbers aren't real and making a real bookmark requires a bit of typing.
- The screen should be bigger
- iPaq should have a better battery. With backlight I get almost 2 hours, which is a bit short.

I picked up the news from Slashdot.