[en] Odd bits and bytes from personal weblogs. [fi] Sitä sun tätä. http://oikeesti.fi Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:02:24 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://oikeesti.fi/images/M_images/orss.jpg http://oikeesti.fi [en] Odd bits and bytes from personal weblogs. [fi] Sitä sun tätä. http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/248/9/ Since I a couple of years ago stumbled upon the free open source 3D program called Blender (http://www.blender.org/), I have been eager to learn how to use it. The program is pretty intimidating to get started with though. I did a couple of false starts on it without producing anything worth mentioning. During the Spring I started a hobby project to learn again the features of the Blender. Geek - Geek Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:32:59 +0100 http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/246/9/ Ylonen.fi (http://ylonen.fi) is the official homepage of the Ylönen Family Society. I have made basically a couple of design rounds on the site, and currently it is based on Joomla open source CMS system (http://www.joomla.org). Earlier version had somewhat more complicated design and more features, but that was simplified to make it correspond the content available. Geek - Geek Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:56:29 +0100 http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/247/9/ Hinausautot.fi (http://hinausautot.fi) is a web site project I put together pretty quickly. Main effort went into planning the site structure and the template. Setup was otherwise pretty straightforward, as the site is running Joomla Open Source CMS (http://www.joomla.org). Geek - Geek Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:01:09 +0100 http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/245/9/ 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 (http://www.oikeesti.fi/photos/). 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. Petri - Petri Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:09:52 +0100 http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/244/9/ 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 (download/Facebook_Friends_Gadget-Petri_Nykanen.gg). 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 (http://desktop.google.com/en/gettingstarted.html). Geek - Geek Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:55:50 +0100 http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/75/9/ Madeira is an island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira) that belongs to Portugal, located some ways west of Gibraltar. Madeira is very green island, having nice climate and mountains that climb almost 2000m up from the sea level. The nature of the island is very accessible due to the irrigation canals, or levadas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levada) that have been dug into the hills and mountains in almost all parts of the island. There are many guide books that outline the levada network, and provide easy instructions how to get to the levadas. Our favourite book is from Sunflower books (http://www.sunflowerbooks.co.uk/levadas.htm), and available at least through Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1856912647/sunflowerbooks). On one hand, there is not that much of night life or beaches on this island, and hotels usually have their own swim areas, even with sea access. But on the other hand, there is abundance of hiking routes and great views! Some of these are easily accessible to anyone travelling with bus or car, while others require hours of hiking, passing through tunnels, and careful steps before seeing their splendor, like the waterwall shown in the pictures, in place called Caldeirao Verde. Travel - Travel Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:54:59 +0100 http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/90/9/ Jardim Orquidea (http://www.madeiraorchid.com/) is an orchid garden located in the city of Funchal, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funchal) Madeira. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira) The garden is owned by Pregetter family which has relocated to Madeira from Austria. This garden is one of the three places on the island that have orchids on show, the other two being Boa Vista Orchids at Quinta Boa Vista, and the Madeira Orchid Farm at Quinta dos Saltos. The latter one seems to be popular by the guides of at least one Finnish travel agency, although I must admit it has not met expectations. Boa Vista Orchids is in the neighborhood of Jardim Orquidea, and if you have your own map, you can fairly easily navigate your way from Jardim Orquidea to Boa Vista Orchids by walking downhill. If you have time and interest, by all means do visit both Jardim Orquidea and Boa Vista Orchids. The reason why we recommend Jardim Orquidea is because there you may buy baby orchids in bottle, in vitro. The orchid seedlings are guaranteed to be healthy, as the Pregetters have own laboratory where they propagate the orchids. If you visit Madeira, and you are interested in seeing or buying orchids, do not miss this place. We have here some sample pictures from the orchid garden, and a short video clip as well. Travel - Travel Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:54:23 +0100 http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/69/9/ Have you ever thought that quite a number of people can enjoy dancing on the same dance floor, when all dancing couples know the dance etiquette. Have a look at the illustration (http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/%7Ehs/pics/etiquette.jpg) that quite simply explains how to enjoy, and how to ensure that others enjoy dancing with you as well! Dance - Dance Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:19:33 +0100 http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/165/9/ 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. Travel - Travel Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:00:00 +0100 http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/130/9/ Here are a couple of funny dance videos I found from YouTube. Dance - Dance Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:21:40 +0100 http://oikeesti.fi/content/view/121/9/ 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. Dance - Dance Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:17:40 +0100