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Therapy counters w36

Mass Effect 2 cosplay Jack

  • Books catalogued in LibraryThing: 362 (two weeks – still no prohress).
  • Stars discovered in Super Mario Galaxy: 28 / 120 (Freezeflame Galaxy proved too much for flu-slowed hand-eye coordination).
  • Crew members recruited and made loyal in Mass Effect 2: 11 / 12, 7 / 12 (recruited Tali, loyalized three more crewmembers).
  • Pending movie review articles: 6 (Toy Stories and GET LAMP added to the backlog).
  • Pending game of the week articles: 5 (no progress).

The attached image is a Mass Effect 2 cosplay.

5k

This blog is now five thousand entries old.

No candles, no cake, and absolutely no singing.

The fifth thousand took almost an year to achieve (the previous milestone was reached on 11.9.2009).

Full archives back in business

Seriously delayed housekeeping, part n.

The old-school archives should now be available. As well as the old pictures.

Therapy counters, w33

  • Books catalogued in LibraryThing: 362 (still going through the living room).
  • Stars discovered in Super Mario Galaxy: 23 / 120 (getting back to an old classic).
  • Crew members recruited and made loyal in Mass Effect 2: 10 / 12, 4 / 12 (with the intention of ALL/ALL before going through the Omega relay).
  • Pending movie review articles: 5.
  • Pending game of the week articles: 6.

Time (and updates) heal wounds

The RSS feed of this blog has been broken in google reader for a long while. The first entry gets excerpted, the later bits in the feed get their titles shown.

No idea why.

This has happened a couple of times before, but the latest symptoms were present for a long time indeed.

Things seem to have improved since the update to new server / WP 3.0 / whatever.

I didn’t sacrifice any black chickens during a full moon or twiddle with any relevant knobs, so this is was unexpected.

Lifestream-experiment suspended

Gave lifestream a shot. After all, the service provider’s infrastructure is now capable of running it.

It did aggregate content nicely from quite a few places.

But it also somehow broke the right sidebar in half on all pages, and didn’t provide my facebook-updates at all.

The former would be probably be debuggable and correctible, but the latter seems to be a permanent feature in the new privacy-illusion-providing facebook.

Hence, no lifestream here.

Hello world, indeed

Sorry about the downtime and the rather primitive looks.

Updated to a new server (within louhi.net).

And things went haywire.

All the posts and comments should be present.

Images will be restored in short order.

And the theme and widgets later on.

3.0?

Testing testing testing.

So it goes

I write like
Kurt Vonnegut

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

iPadded

This is the first entry in this blog written using an iPad.

Writing is not too bad, though obviously slow-ish and error-prone.

Out of synch once again

For one reason or the other, Google Reader is having issues with the blog’s feed once again.

All the entries are present, but for some reason only the first one is rendered, and even that in a very abbreviated fashion.

This has happened before, and been rectified miraculously.

The current bout seems to be quite a bit more persistent.

Aiming upwards

April, according to the statistics, was a profoundly lazy blogging month here.

The reasons are many (the trip, the flu, the metric assload of things to do at work), and the goal definitely towards more entries in May.

Pausing and all that

Cherry blossoms in OsakaWas in Japan.

Had plenty to see and do.

Blogging was not on top of the agenda.

Especially with the less than ubiquitous connectivity.

I’ll put up a long and rambling travelogue in the next days. With plenty of pretty pictures.

Here’s the first sample, a blossoming cherry tree in Osaka.

Sixth birthday, missed

Uh, in all the excitement and hubbub the sixth birthday of this blog was quietly forgotten.

No big changes here. There was plenty in the everyday life, anyway.

War against apathy

No blog lately. Lack of inspiration and time is the main reason.

Fingerpori helps.

Fingerpori 27.3.2010

This comic strip from last saturday epitomizes what is good in Pertti Jarla’s masterpiece.

Next in line

A dual topic under a single title:

  • Updated the “next in line” bit in the sidebar to cover the upcoming movies, games and such.
  • And while doing that, once again marveled at the domestic comics calendar, which tells when new issues and albums are due.

2009, blogwise

  • Blogs: Just this, the others are on an extended shore leave.
  • Entries: 1346 (a record, the running tally now stands at 4392).
  • Engine: Still WordPress.
  • Theme: Slightly hacked Fluid Blue.
  • Proper entries: Too few, proportionally.
  • Technological challenges: Google Reader renders only the top of the newest entry, the rest are left blank.

Merry Christmas

Straw pigRegular service will be resumed in a couple of days.

2.9 is out

Wordpress logoIncoming update.

Perhaps during the holidays.

Perhaps not.

Days of silence

No internet in Nöykkiö (apart from N900).

Plenty of things to empty, move, clean and organize.

Plenty to do at work.

Hence the very slow trickle of updates.

Even the move went unblogged. Mainly on account of being a) sick as a pig and b) plenty of things to do.

Quite a month

Lowest blogging activity in ages, but time was very short for decent reasons:

  • Bought a house, and sold my apartment, the hassle involved is considerably larger than expected.
  • As is the effort needed to shop for new furniture and machinery.
  • Spent a long weekend in Amsterdam and spoke at Maemo Summit 2009.
  • Spent a week in New York (a proper report forthcoming).
  • Entertained a flu (of the non-swine kind) for quite some time.
  • Worked a lot.

Hence missed out on a lot of the usual suspects here. The arrival of N900 was tackled with a single entry – considering the device’s power, we’re overdue a much better exposé. Hakkapeliitat is doing decent on the gridiron – weekly updates will return at some point. Photography challenges were mostly recycling old entries. No good.

Hopefully this November will be a bit more quiet.

On account of the impending move, I have a good hunch that it isn’t.

Good doggy

Testing administration & posting with N900.

Works. And is quite pleasant.

No action

Long weekend working (Maemo Summit in Amsterdam), a stubborn flu and the latest phases in Projekt Lebensraum 2.0 have kept me away from blogging.

Regular service will resume soon.

Famous for fifteen gigabytes

Yesterday brought in a record number of visitors to the blog.

Or actually hits on a single image.

Whereas the blog regularly gets around four thousand hits a day, yesterday’s crop was 250000. Yes, sports fans, that’s a quarter of a million.

The reason: the leeched Metallica logo in a facebook application that is apparently very popular in spanish-speaking countries.

An e-mail exchange with the author of the rectified the situation quickly, and the attention has dwindled ever since the link was removed.

4000

This blog is now four thousand entries old.

The fourth thousand took some nine months to achieve (3k milestone was celebrated in last December).

As previously: no party and no cake (and I’m out of Caledonian IPA anyway for today).