Archive for October, 2006

My hair started turning (I wouldn’t exactly call it curly). Let me describe it more accurately - the hair (especially on my forehead) first go more or less straight down and then, suddenly, it turns… left? right? no… it turns outwards… it’s totally the most stupid direction and it makes me look even more like […]

I stumbled upon a typing test. I chose “Fishing in Finland” and measuring in CPM (characters per minute, as opposed to WPM - words per minute, which is pretty useless). And my first result was 250 - hazah. That makes slightly more than 4 keystrokes per second, which is not bad, considering the fact that […]

As much as I praised the beta of Edgy Eft (betas are usually horrible and this one was simply great without any flaws), the final release sucks. It replaced  [working] orinoco drivers for my wifi with [not working] prism2_pci drivers. Took me a while to figure it all out (merely a day or so, because […]

I only very recently discovered Nightwish (their official site is also worth visiting). The trick is that they have a real singer - Tarja Turunen (well, she’s not their singer anymore, but the past albums are sung by her). I’m not going to just copy wikipedia here (go read it yourself) so I’ll add my […]

While my spelling is generally good (it was always easier for me to remember how words are written than how they are pronounced) I always had troubles distinguishing vowels. I mean, I usually do know which vowel there should be, but I just sometimes make the mistake of writing a different one instead. I always […]

Wesnoth, Freeciv, Simutrans, Fillets, Tuxracer, Liquidwar, Angband/Nethack, Racer, Cube, Wolf ET… I thought there was nothing that could surprise me in the word of linux gaming.
The other day I found GL-117, a perfect action flight simulator. It’s very easy to pilot the plane, there’s a lot of action, and the best thing is that […]

I’m changing my eating habits!
Throughout all my life I’ve eaten much more than I wanted to. What is worse - I didn’t even realize it, I got used to that uneasy feeling of having full stomach and being all tired and sleepy because of this.
When my grandma asked me whether there’s a possibility of eating […]

Hello from Edgy Eft!
Recently I got a new disk and I decided it might be a good idea to make a clean new install (I had the previous system through warty - hoary - breezy - dapper). I didn’t want to upgrade the old system to something which is still unstable and I thought it […]

There is something really weird about abandoned places. I personally find them very scary for several reasons. First is that they don’t necessarily have to be as abandoned as they might seem, and if someone lived there it would probably be weird enough person to kill me. The second, less childlish, is that it just […]

I went to the tearoom to play go the other day and one very talented and promising 7kyu (he’s been playing for half a year I think, that’s a very good result) asked me to play an even game with him… I offered him a handicap, and he declined, saying that he wanted to “see […]