This blog is now nine years old.
There’s no party, and especially no cake.
Mar 292013
Feb 042013
Superbowl.
This time I hope to stay awake the whole game (last year I started to aggressively nod off during the halftime show).
Jan 202013
In two years (and a little change) the spam problem has been massive and growing.
By the Akismet stats, it has blocked either half a million or 680000 attempts to deface this blog with spam comments (the numbers strangely disagree).
The amount of spam getting through the filter has been fortunately gettiung smaller and smaller as the tool and its database improve.
The newest entry in the world of unwanted mail is the arrival of snail-mail spam, and not just any random advertisements but bills. Huimio registered its first trademark and somehow this seems to be an open invitation to various organizations to test the waters with related opportunities for us to pay extra for nothing. Highly unexpected, but easy to torpedo fortunately – in the words of legal advisors: “don’t do anything”, easy enough advice to follow.
Jan 192013
Courtesy of Jetpack comes an annual report of this blog.
The stats are odd (and anyway missing a significant chunk of the year), and the decriptive statements are the same for all reports.
The could have been so much better, now it’s just lame.
Jan 012013
- Blogs: three-ish: this, obviously; the N9 Developer is defunct, and two new ones are gestating and not ready for the public.
- Engine: WordPress in all.
- Entries: here: 321 (quite a dip from the previous heights).
- Backlog: downright terrifying.
- Changes done: apart from the lowered posting rate and quality, not really.
- Changes planned: Huimio and Tunemio blogs will definitely see daylight. The two others as well.
Analyses of previous years are also available: 2011, 2010, 2009.
Dec 302012
Was forced to take gravatar into use (github peer pressure).
Hence I no longer appear in the comments as a random geometrical shape, but with my real face.
Dec 012012
The blog marches on, despite the slowest month in history.
Family sorrows and such.
But with the snows of December, let’s get the ball rolling again.
Nov 032012
Coming back in, slowly but surely.
Oct 022012
How come no-one mentioned Kasper Strömman Design Blog before?
He takes a sarcastic view on Finland and on finnish design. With a daily posting schedule.
Oct 012012
From now on, all pictures attached for photography challenge will describe also what is shown in addition to stating which challenge they have been submitted to.
The latter, after all, is pretty much useless as the sole content.
Sep 092012
Finally updated the content of most sidebar elements.
Apart from the “books read”-bit, they were pathetically stale.
Now they contain mostly valid data (ie. the movies I aim to see haven’t left the big screen half a year ago).
Sep 012012
August wasn’t much of an improvement over the glacial posting pace set in July.
Main cause was the nine day outage by the service provider, but that’s hardly the reason why the rest of the month was such a drag.
Again, things will get better. And with the fantasy football season starting, there’s at least one weekly posting that needs attention.
Aug 122012
louhi.net, the service provider behind lavonardo.net provided an eight day spell of offlinedom on account of a broken server (and subsequent backup-related misery).
The providers’ explanations are confusing and contradictory.
The outage affected ~8% of their customers, of whom lavonardo.net probably was the in the lowest 2% of damages. Several companies have endured kiloeuros of losses on account of this, my hit was just inconvenience and an enforced sabbatical from posting. Hardly compares.
The backups seem to be from the beginning of August, so the concrete losses are three posts (to be republished next week).
Jul 142012
To celebrate the longest editorial absence thus far, I switched the theme of the blog.
Lavonardo now runs Suffusion. Suffusion is an awesomely flexible and complex beast. So things probably take a while to achieve extra polish. But they should not be broken in the meantime either.
So do please report any weirdness in comments.
Jun 032012
In May I posted 16 articles, the third lowest score in the history of the blog.
Things will, as they say, “get better”.
May 232012
A year older, again.
With plenty of recent changes making sure it hasn’t been boring, and will not be in the future, either.
Changes and opportunities that will be described here as well.
May 012012
This blog is now eight years, one month and two days old.
Missed the festivities completely.
And despite a formidable precedent, there will be no highlights post. Maybe at the tenth anniversary. Maybe.
Mar 042012
Been lazy lately, the backlog is brimming with interesting topics, and I’ve been concentrating on photography and arbitary links instead.
Thus, it’s time to improve things with the lengthening days and increasing sunshine.
First up: movie reviews. I plan to be up-to-date with them by the time I see John Carter (and that’s not an excuse to wait for the Bluray release in the summer).
Then: a few travel blogs (distilled into single entries on account not being even remotely fresh any more), a couple of gigs, handful of games and some insights into ongoing projects.
Jan 292012
Enabled Jetpack. Report faults and weirdness in comments, please.
Jan 252012
Jan 182012
Yeah, today is the long-awaited SOPA/PIPA-protest day.
I am obviously totally against the heavy-handed censorship proposal, but am not turning the blog off.
After all, I had my four hours of darkness yesterday following the cPanel mishap in the afternoon.
And if the blog would have been switched off, I wouldn’t have been able to post this glorious rendition of American Pie. And not just ANY rendition of American Pie, but one with LOLcats in it!
Jan 172012
Managed to mangle the password to the blog today and thus render this completely unreachable for a couple of hours.
Fixed.
The fact that cPanel can change the MySQL password came as a definitely unpleasant surprise.
Jan 032012
Updated the best of 2011-entry to account for two key omissions.
Jan 012012
- Blogs: 2 (this, and joint custody of the N9 Developer blog at work).
- Engine: WordPress here, Lifetype in the other.
- Changes: Not much. Plenty of photos, not much other substance.
- Entries: Here: 1009.
- Backlog: Fearsome.
- Forthcoming changes: TBC, nothing big planned.
Previous years analyses also available: 2010, 2009.
Dec 262011
The recent silence hasn’t been either a whimper or a bang.
The blog returns slowly to form following an event-filled and semi-burnoutish December.