Christmas card…
December 13th, 2007
There is a nice road commercial in my way to work. It is a reminder to sent christmas cards early enough. It is nice to see that someone has really thought about this commercial and made it visually nice.
Winter morning
December 13th, 2007
Mornings in the winter are just great. The sunrise, when everything is lighten by red and gold, it is just simply beautiful. Only if here is some snow in the ground…
Bicycle lights
November 29th, 2007
In the beginning of this week my bicycle head light got broken. I guess that it needs only changing bulb but it was a good excuse to buy a new better light. The old one was a good light but it was a small, not bright enough and its runtime was still not so good.
So I decided to buy a new one. And this time I wanted a good light that would last many years and almost every condition I would cycle.
So I am now a happy owner of Switchback 2 light. It is very small, LED-based light with Li-ion battery and rapid charger. It should charge just in two hours and give 16h of runtime in low setting, which is enough in the city. At this point (only one ride behind) light seems to be just right purchase. I will post more detailed thoughts later when I have a little bit more experience of it.
Finally winter
November 29th, 2007
Winter has finally came to Finland, this week temperature has been below 0°C all the time and the ground looks white. There is still too little snow in the ground but maybe we will get a it more in this winter. At least I hope so.
This week was also first week when there was ice on roads so I changed my studded tires on my bicycle on Monday. So it is officially a winter time now 
Christmas tree
November 12th, 2007
Christmas is coming closer. I was on my way to the work when I was passed by a police escort of a big tree. A tree was on its way to the city center where it will be our city’s christmas tree. Unfortunately above is the best photo I managed to get, I was always few minutes late on every road crossing, traffic lights, everywhere where transportation stopped for a while.
Back to working
November 2nd, 2007
Yesterday was the the first day in my new job. After a couple month of being full-time student, I am back in the work life now.
I currently work in Departments of Computer Sciences, University of Tampere and I work in XML-related research project.
Having fun with camera
October 20th, 2007
I don’t know why I haven’t left out to the nature to take photos for a long, long time, but luckily I did that today. And I was having a little fun with my camera. Although I did take my whole system with my bag, I decided to use only fixed 50mm lens and try to find new angles and ways to take photos. It was really fun and creative, I definitely have to redo this some other time. This time my photos were still quite ordinary but maybe next time I manage to get some really creative photos…
News story about business
October 8th, 2007
Last thursday I got a call from Aamulehti reporter. For my big surprise, he wanted to interview me about my new business. Aamulehti picks a few new companies for a short more detailed introduction and me and my company was picked.
Aamulehti wanted a photo along the story and I had to sent a photo myself. Unfortunately only photo that I had was my official photo that I had for my identity card and I had to sent that one. And I can say, that photo is almost awful, I have really bad expression, it is way too serious photo of me. But what can you do, you just cannot take a nice photo about a person who spend a lot of time behind a camera. Specially if you like to see something else on the photo than my camera And today story was published. Unfortunately the story is not viewable online, so I cannot offer direct link. But the story seems to have a few more hits on my website than normally I get on mondays, so maybe the story was read by someone
Photo report
September 27th, 2007
Today came out a new issue of Aviisi, a local student newspaper. In this episode is my first photo report ever published in newspaper, well actually first photo report I have ever made.
Photo report was made about a local student event, Kaupunkisuunnistus, where freshmans (and sometimes some older students also) travels through the city from one control point to another, making some tasks in every control point.
It was really funny to watch and I also got some quite nice photos.
Shortened version of report with one photo is online in here.
Private Server
September 27th, 2007
Yesterday my website got a little upgrade, I was after a long wait transferred to Dreamhost PS, which is a dedicated virtual server just for me.
My site has not been under heavy traffic but still my gallery has been feeling slow sometimes. Not anymore, at least it seems to be faster.
Of course as downside I have to pay a little more for this server now, but at this time I really think that it is worth.
One of the nicest thing in Dreamhost PS is ability to change allocated resources in real-time. If I think or see that I need more memory to my server, I just login to panel and assign more and after a while it has been updated to my server. For example I tried to install and run GlassFish application server and it needed a lot more memory than I was originally allocated (and paying for). But with Dreamhost this was no problem, I just increased memory in control panel, waited for change to become active and then installed GlassFish and tested it. After testing I just went back to original memory setting and I only paid for few hours for more resources. This is exactly how things should work. Just pay for what you are using, not about what you might sometimes need to use.