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Post Updated: Moving to Finland

Hey! Not sure if people click on the links in the top, the one in particular this time is the Moving to Finland one - or https://www.guldmyr.com/moved-to-finland. I just updated it because after I got a job I finally got into The System. Have not gotten a …

Songs of the day - 25 of March - 2011

Same story as last time: I am listening from the laptop speakers while working so not listening to the lyrics much. I put in 'open mic' or a special mood in thesixtyone and see what comes up! Great way to find new music :) Awake My Soul - Momford & Sons # sing/song …

Songs of the day 23st of March - 2011

Graciously taken from listening to thesixtyone.com today. Some links go to the youtube some to thesixtyone.com Please note that I rarely listen to the actual text of the songs, just the music and the rhythm. Primarily because I do not listen to them from my head phones, my …

Playstation 3 - it's purty

Got one this weekend, together with Gran Turismo 5 and Little Big Planet (or something like that), we've only played GT 5 so far but it's pretty darn amazing! It's quite hard but we do win - complete the challenges in the beginner level at least ;) Altogether quite expensive stuff, but …

DWM - not your average mainstream window manager

Have been playing around with a new window manager (new as in for me, I've only used fluxbox, kde and gnome before) called DWM - see more information on www.suckless.org. I'm running it on a T400 with RHEL6 (which uses gnome login manager - gde). Basically if you want to …

DWM editing the bar to show time

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources while true; do # BAT=$(acpi | awk '{ print $4 }' | sed s/","//g) CLK=$( date +'%H:%M') # xsetroot -name "$BAT | $CLK" xsetroot -name "$CLK" sleep 1 done | while true; do ~/bin/dwm; done Hello from future Johan, the above also looks super weird. Think these days I just run …

Movie Review - The Man Without a Past

Kotimainen Elokuva- Mies vailla menneisyyttä [by Aki Kaurismäki] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mies_vailla_menneisyytt%C3%A4 Black Comedy? We decided to take a peak at it because it was nominated/won an Oscar under 'foreign film'. So it should be good then right? Turns out they of course can be …

Science!

Linksies! Planets: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/117984/20110302/kepler-finds-strange-worlds-fastest-planet.htm Imagine a year being only 10 days! I'd be sooo old! Roughly one thousand years old. Maybe I would qualify as a jedi? LHC: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110228/full/471013a.html Nice comment about the above …

Science-Fiction and Fantasy Books in Helsinki

Where to find them? Where are some good second hand shops, new book shops, any tips on buying from the Internet. Number 1: the library. The library system here in Finland is actually quite awesome. You can go to their website and search and reserve books (costs 50c this year …

Fantasy Book Review - George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones

Warning, this article may contains spoilers (I am trying to be sublime about them though) and have written them in white text just to be on the safe side. Terminology According to Wikipedia these books are in these subgenres: High Fantasy - lots of fantasy stuff going on - like magic and …