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Travelling to Debconf11

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

This year Debconf is a bit off the beaten track, so there is a bit of anxiety in the participants – flights to Banja Luka are quite expensive (I’d guess we have packed the relevant dates pretty full already) and other options are going via Zagreb or Ljubljana, but there people do not yet have [...]

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Debconf11

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

It looks like I am going to Debconf11! Vacation time is booked, registration is in, only some final approvals inside Accenture are pending to pay my flights. I must say after working in Finland for the whole winter, I need to get out and get to friendly (and relatively chatty) Debian people more than ever.

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New Nokia games coming

Friday, April 1, 2011

Warning, this post is COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL, do not spread outside of authorized corporate internal communication channels. Today Nokia will announce that in order to increase investor confidence and foster brand loyalty all Nokia Symbian phones in the world will receive two free Nokia-themed games. The first game will be Angry Nokias – Nokias have discovered [...]

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MorzeSMS

Friday, February 11, 2011

Quick post. In light of recent Nokia+Microsoft-MeeGo news, I have gone to learn more about Android in a hurry. And here is the first result – MorzeSMS. Basically it is a tiny app that will play a morze code when you receive an SMS message. The morze code is the phone number of the sender [...]

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Nexus S review incoming

Monday, January 17, 2011

This is just a quick note that I broke down and replaced my ageing iPhone 3G with a brand new unlocked Google Nexus S. I got it in my hands last Saturday and by the end of the first day it did 90% of what I used my iPhone for and by the end of [...]

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Social distribution

Friday, August 13, 2010

I have just looked at traffic to my photos from Debconf10 during and after the event. During the event I sent out the link to the photos to Twitter/Identi.ca and to IRC channel of the conference. The amount of people visiting my photos rose from <100 per day to around 1000 per day. That might [...]

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Debconf10 group photo

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Please add your name and names of people you recognise here. Update: 14 people left! The rest of my DebConf10 photos are in my DebConf10 Flickr set. There will still be a few photos from today uploaded to that set tomorrow morning, but it is almost complete. Hint: it also contains a video of DPL [...]

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Debcamp 10 – the early days

Saturday, July 31, 2010

After I finished an re-read my epic post describing my first day and a half at Debconf10 I suddenly realised that if I continue to describe the rest of 13 days here in such style and verbosity this would become a book, a boring one at that, so I decided to limit myself to 2 [...]

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Debconf 10 – arrival and first days

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

I had planned long for this Debconf and with the experience from the previous times I did all I could to reach one goal – minimise stress. I think I got it right this time. First of all I got my company (Accenture) pay for the whole thing, so I did not have to worry [...]

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Phoning it in

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Currently I own and use an iPhone 3G. I bought it almost two years ago, when the local phone provider LMT started offering the iPhone legally. I had a pretty good experience with it most of the time, but now it is showing its age: The two year warranty will run out in September The [...]

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