The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in finland, fishkeeping on May 6th, 2008
In a surprising turn of events, one of the most famed aquarist-explorers of the world was recently taken fishing just outside Helsinki.
The pictures are again very nice. And the gobies and shrimps would probably make quite good pets, perches tend to be predatory and the big cyprinids are just boring.
It would seem that my earlier optimism is unwarranted.
It was easy to dismiss the rampant pyramid schemes of the newly democratized Albania as actions of unscrupulous criminals working on a nation that had no idea what capitalism meant.
Recent events in Finland have proven this hypothesis completely wrong.
Thousand of finns have fallen for the hollow promises of wincapita (or winclub […]
Ilkka Kanerva and Matti Vanhanen have been awarded with spoofed facebook pages. Not in the application itself, even though creating a page for a government official probably bears less severe consequences than pretending to be royalty.
Here’s just a tiny snippet of the secretary of state’s phony page since full takes don’t really […]
Lehti, pretty much the only real finnish humour-blog, attempts to go paper.
In a truly 21st century way, by ransoming the first issue.
Count me in.
Posted in censorship, finland on Mar 4th, 2008
The demonstration against the already rolling domestic internet censorship-effort will begin in a couple of hours downtown.
I won’t attend. First of all, the flu is still raging (though fever is subsiding). And even more importantly I think that demonstrations organized at a time when most people ought to be at […]
Well, despite indications to the contrary, Teräsbetoni managed to beat Kari Tapio yesterday in the finnish eurovision qualifiers and will represent the country in the finals in Serbia in May.
The band (steel-reinforced concrete) is obviously not entirely serious about their barbarian image, but the shock value of this group may not be enough […]
As lawsuits go, the charges brought by Alexis Kouros against Phil Schwartzmann seems to be counted amongst the futile.
I’m so rooting for the defendant here. And so should you.
Posted in censorship, finland, haircut on Feb 24th, 2008
Seems that my membership in the finnish chapter of Electronic Frontier Foundation had lapsed (probably on account of an e-mail address gone stale).
The vigor the group has fought in the current censorship conflict has been exemplary and has to be rewarded, thus there’s no way of keeping me out.
Some new t-shirt […]
Posted in censorship, finland, movies, music, web on Feb 24th, 2008
In addition to the raging internet censorship “debate” - of which wise things have already been written.
Debate is intentionally quoted above, since argument-wise this is a case of shooting fish in a barrel, and does not resemble a real debate in any way.
In descending order of international visibility:
Fedora vs. […]
Posted in censorship, finland, web on Feb 18th, 2008
I’ve been waffling about putting some words out on the finnish authorities misguided censorship campaign, but haven’t really been able to write an effective paragraph, let alone a consistent entry.
Thankfully the local EFF chapter laid out the sorry state of affairs in a thorough piece.
EDIT: The sanest man in the […]
Posted in finland, helsinki, naked link on Feb 5th, 2008
The tagline of the blog is appropriate indeed; reading the readers’ digest version of