Arto's Blog
Blog software upgrade helped with comment spam
Posted: 2013-09-30 18:41:00, Categories: General, Free software, 487 words (permalink)I recently upgraded the software of my blog to the most recent version
of b2evolution. The main reason
was simply to stay current with security and bug fixes. Another reason
was the new "mass delete" option to get quickly rid of comment spa… more »
New job on environmental and cultural data
Posted: 2008-12-03 22:42:23, Categories: General, Work, Finland, Free software, Literature, Politics, 865 words (permalink)My half-time work experiment felt good enough that I'm doing it again. Same employer (CSC), 80 hours per month contract until end of May 2009. This time I'm working on services providing storage and access to environmental and cultural data. There are… more »
Books of my homeless friends
Posted: 2007-11-24 16:10:27, Categories: Travel, Work, Free software, Literature, 352 words (permalink)A few months ago I wrote about meeting Päivi and Santeri in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. They describe themselves as homeless loiterers and claim not to be doing much anything, but they've turned out to be quite active in writing books. They started with La… more »
Kindle and the future of electronic books
Posted: 2007-11-21 01:34:00, Categories: Free software, Literature, 526 words (permalink)A couple of days ago, Amazon unveiled their electronic book reader called Kindle. Newsweek published an extensive story about it. In short, Kindle is a roughly A5 size, 300 gram electronic device with a daylight-readable grayscale display and… more »
Open source discussion in Tietokone magazine
Posted: 2007-11-17 13:45:45, Categories: Work, Free software, 178 words (permalink)I was recently invited in a panel discussion about open source, organized by Tietokone, the largest IT magazine in Finland geared towards business users. An article about the discussion appeared in the latest issue (Tietokone 13/2007) and the full… more »

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