Archive for June, 2006

Hola, Guadec!

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

Arrived at GUADEC without trouble. Estonian (Rep/RIP)Air sucks because they don’t have free lunch during the flight… and too bad that return flight is with the same company. ;)
Sampo and Kalle (the other Movial guys) haven’t still arrived, but the whole Nokia crew is here.
The St. John party last night was awesome - there were about five to ten thousand people on the beach or maybe even more, paraphrasing Luis: “Vilanova knows how to party“. And I don’t ;)

Spain, here I come :)

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

Arrived in Tallinn yesterday night, later had few beers and football match (Brazil vs Japan) in the pub with Tuljo, Kristian and Käts. :) Sometime near midnight had a pizza and after that another beer in another bar and another football match (Czech Rep. vs Australia) and off to sleep…
Morning came with no hangover, checked the bus times to reach the airport in time… So - walked to the bus stop and what I see - number 2 had been scraped off from the bus station sign. Weird… Quick phonecall to Tuljo, who took me to the airport by car. Later found out that due to the road repairs the bus had to drive another route. Beware the “the latest information is available from our website“. ;)
The plane leaves from Tallinn in less than an hour now… Hopefully the Estonian (rep/RIP)Air doesn’t give me trouble.

Commuting..

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Back in Helsinki since yesterday… back to Tallinn tomorrow… Tired too.

Ate pasta tonight and learned that gorgonzola isn’t the cheese I want in pasta sauce :)

Customer service…

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006

Ouch.. this cannot be happening: Vodafone and their incompetence.
And some other scary things - today I learned how to use the LEFT JOIN in MySQL :)

SELECT l.string_id, l.string_value, c.string_id, c.valid_sug_id, s.user_suggestion
FROM test_string_list AS l JOIN test_string_context AS c
LEFT JOIN test_string_suggestion AS s ON (c.valid_sug_id = s.sug_id)
WHERE l.string_id=c.string_id

Network(ing) up(dates)…

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

I finally managed to get the Van Jacobson slides for his “Network Channels” talk in Linux.conf.au 2006. I had already forgotten this talk when I last heard about it in January but good stuff sometimes comes back.. ;) Anyway, it would have been a nice Google SoC idea…
And I also upgraded my WRT54G to the latest dd-wrt firmware. I was hoping it would brick the machine (so I could do some JTAG soldering and also explore the electronics stores in Helsinki are), but the new firmware works like charm… And looks the new web-interface looks good too ;)
On the life side I had to do some biking in order to get my bicycle from Vaarala to Espoonlahti. I assume the ride was ~50 kilometers because I did some stupid pathfinding decisions. In total it took ~3 hours. My ass hurts a bit, but I assume it’s normal :)