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Sense of being insignificantly tiny

You know, I watched the President’s speech on Youtube about his reactions on the BP oil spilll catastrophe and it all seems so surrea to mel. I wish I could be a on ship out there doing whatever I could do to help. Anyone need an inexperienced oil-disaster-fixer?

Even after two month or let alone two [...]

Browsing the web without default settings

A couple months ago I decided I will set my Firefox default background color from bright white to a dimmed white/grayish of some sort. When opening text files or other unstyled content, I get a less brighter screen to look at.

And now a lot of website look totally ugly! It’s quite revealing how many websites [...]

Repair Lucene index

Today I was browsing through a Lucene version 2.4 index with Luke 0.9.9 and I finished off my session by running optimize. This broke my web application, as it couldn’t read the database anymore. Glancing at the server logs, I quickly realized the data files had been converted into latest Lucene 2.9 format. Okay, no [...]

Happy 5 + 10 + 30 years = 2008!

Ooh, I should have written about this ages ago but I’ve been busy, lazy and ignorant for the past month.

2008 is triple milestone in my life.

10 years ago I moved to Finland from Sweden.
5 years ago I started working at the company I work for today.
30 years ago I was born (oh well, later [...]

Single Sign-On for the entire Web?

This entry was restored from old backups:

Today, I stumbled upon something called OpenID. It sure sounds interesting and I really think this technology (or something comparable) will be a necessity in the future with all these websites available on the Internet that we use daily…
Don’t we all feel a bit fed up with having to [...]

Graduation

I’m now a BSc in Software Engineering!

I had worked too much so that my studies were almost canceled because of that….