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We bought some land property and shortly after that a "turn-key" house package called Vihtori from Designtalo in the Spring 2007. We have been living in the house since March 2008. If you are interested to see the steps from buying property to finalising the house, please see our house building blog.
Although the house is already ready, maybe the pictures will help you in your project. Unfortunately the comments in the blog are in Finnish only, but then, one picture can tell more than a thousand words.
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Written by Petri
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This is improved version of the Facebook Notifications gadget created by Frank Liauw. His work was based on the original Facebook gadget by Turhan Aydin. The gadget is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, but some specific functions are from Google examples (under Apache License).
Improved features of the gadget:
- Menu option to allow "offline" use of Facebook, to avoid need for repeated logins.
- Animated status feed of your friends, based on FQL queries, to avoid need to enter friend feed address manually.
- Image of your friend shown next to his or her status
- Clicking on either the image or the status entry of your friend, will launch browser to the person's page in facebook.
- Settings dialog to configure various options.
- Localised for English and Finnish.
The Gadget will, after (automatic) login, try to fetch friend feed information. Note that if you set parameter for how often feed is fetched to too small value, you might not see all entries in the list before new list is fetched and the showing of the entries is restarted from the most recent entry.
I ended up doing this enhanced version after having used somewhat similar widget in the Microsoft Vista sidebar. However, having fed up that my commercial software did not work with 64-bit Vista Ultimate, I upgraded to 32-bit Windows XP. I missed the sidebar in the XP, so moved on to using the Google desktop which provides all the gadgets I need, now.
Let me know what you think of it, and please let me know if you would like to add to this package localization to your favaourite language.
Testing Status:
- Only tested on Windows XP.
Click here to download Latest version. The latest version is 1.0.0.5 (more or less corrected window resizing, and added tooltip for the status feed to show full status in the tooltip in case the status does not fit into the area available).
In case you don't know how Google Desktop works, you may want to familiarise with the getting started guide.
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The capitol of USA! This was the second stop on our road
trip on US East coast. The weather continued to be super good with the
heat wave on, and the city bathed in sun.
There are plenty of motels and hotels to choose from while driving
in USA. However, when we arrived to Washington D.C. in the evening, we
found more or less the last hotel with rooms in the city. Every other
place seemed to be way beyond our price range, or booked. Even this
hotel had rates for the last free rooms three times higher than what we
used to pay for a typical room. It was tempting to just pay and stay in
the city, but we made the right choice when we decided to try our luck
and drive 15-20 minutes out of the city to see if any motels show
up.
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Here are a couple of funny dance videos I found from YouTube.
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In dancing houses and pavillions in Finland the swing dances are more and more popular. One of such dances, called Bugg, has developed into its current form in Sweden. Bugg is a brisk dance that fits well with music that has fast beat, all the way from Swedish Abba to American country music. The basics of this dance are easy to learn, and still, the dance provides you with a learning challenge for many years to come.
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