CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-06-18 05:40:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Haha, looks like someone doesn't like new layout of Gmail... Gotta love The System comic...:D

2013-06-17 11:44:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Camera in 120 different colors?

I thought that color of the tool didn't matter...;)

2013-06-17 09:55:17 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Trusted position

While I was vacationing last week, I got elected as South-East Finland's University of Applied Sciences health and safety representative.

My co-workers clearly trust me, that's really nice thing! Now I must start gather info about my newly found position and learn some new stuff.

2013-06-17 07:56:52 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Nokia EOS packs 41MP camera

Could this finally get Nokia on new rise? 808 failed with using Symbian as it's OS, now it seems that Nokia is correcting their earlier mistake.

2013-06-17 07:26:49 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

How to remove Windows 8 synced data from cloud

Pretty simple procedure to get your personal stuff out from Microsoft's servers.

2013-06-15 16:24:06 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Had holiday in Tallinn

This year we went into family trip into Estonia, Tallinn to be precise. Tallinn is regarded by most Finns as place to get cheap booze and nothing more. We went to get to know thew city bit better than that.

Our trip had rather stressful start. I reserved two hours and forty minutes for drive, getting our reserved tickets and boarding the ferry. That was insanely close call that we didn't miss the boat! We were stuck at Helsinki's morning traffic and arrived to parking lot just 10 minutes before boarding ended. Nearest ticket machine didn't work and second was occupied by elderly couple. Luckily there was parking attendant standing nearby and he took our car registration number and wished good trip. We saved over 60€ because I was in insane hurry! We just got past security gates, when announcement was made that security points were closed anda... more »

2013-06-09 18:17:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Went yesterday to Särkänniemi amusement park.

Went into family trip arranged by our local engineering chapter. This year's destination was Särkänniemi amusement park in Tampere.

While I'm not that ride-oriented person, I still got my day access pass to all rides and exhibitions that I used to enter different locations. No rides, but I went to see Finland's only dolphin show and entered just opened (same day) Koiramäki (Doghill) story village, where of Finland's most known stories came to life.

Visited also in Näsinneula to take a look around, still pretty amazing sight from 124 metres (407 ft).

And no, I didn't go into Angry Birds Land... That place was crowded with small children, I couldn't fit in...:D

2013-06-09 17:52:24 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

RIP Iain Banks

Here's some of his thoughts from his last days...

2013-06-07 09:49:01 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Hey +Google+ (or anyone else who knows)!

Can someone explain why I just can't see "new" posts anymore... Every time I press that 'new' -button, all posts are re-loaded and mostly older posts are bumped on top. There's nothing wrong in them, I've already read them 2-5 hours earlier and enjoyed them... But showing same posts even 5 times is bit annoying.

Luckily there's some newer posts among all those older ones too.

Please bring back the older automatically updated stream! Please?

+Jaana Nyström +Natalie Villalobos +Google+ Helper Have you any ideas?

2013-06-07 05:22:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Science is cool (even while it's glowing hot)!

2013-06-06 05:07:41 (23 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

"To Really Understand Hevibändi, It Helps to Know the Language
Heavy-Metal Fans Inspired to Study Finnish, Norwegian; 'Poetic and Obscure'"

2013-06-03 17:11:12 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Trying out new lenses for camera...

Got two new lenses for my camera to replace kit lenses I got with it. I've long wanted to start "more serious" photographing, maybe these will get me going?

Those kit lenses were decent enough and were (and probably still are) just perfect for my skills, but I wanted little bit better. I got one Sigma 18-50mm F2.8-4.5 DC OS HSM for "all-around lens" and one Tamron AF70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di LD Macro for getting objects further away. Those are really nice budget lenses and I got that Sigma really cheap (99€)! Got couple filters too for them, just for trying out... And for those curious enough, my camera is Pentax K-x.

2013-06-02 11:41:10 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Summer's first carpet washing session

We went to wash few of our carpets into communal washing place next to river. Lots of scrubbing and soap and roughly one hour of tedious work, we have now four really clean carpets. It's rather nice task, I'm actually waiting for the next session. ;)

2013-06-01 18:53:10 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

Filled mushrooms

How to make those insanely delicious mushrooms, that are filled with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon and seasoned with spices...

This time I used pineapple -flavored cheese, that gave really nice touch to these mushrooms. Fruity, but still cheesy (hehe) taste. I also wanted some extra punch into some of those, so I added Fatalii's Smoky Magic -chilipowder, that is just heavenly.

2013-05-31 18:53:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I participated today in course for Sharepoint 2013 Central Administration

I have to admit that while I knew something about Sharepoint, after today's lecture I knew that I had known so little. Still my knowledge about Sharepoint is rather low, but I had to participate to get just overlook about configuration.

2013-05-31 04:22:29 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Brent Spiner (Data) Tried Google Glass

And doesn't do too badly.

#glass   #glassexplorers   #googleglass  

2013-05-30 17:14:03 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Maple that just won't die

Every year I've cut this maple back to a stump with no branches to stop shadowing our garden and sucking all valuable water from other plants. Still it grows lots of new branches and leaves during the whole summer. Stubborn one!

2013-05-30 17:11:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Rhubarb is blooming

Just took short stroll in our backyard to see what's growing in there... Some of our rhubarbs have started blooming. I've always liked their simple form and plain white color.

2013-05-30 09:07:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Using skype without client (through Outlook.com)

Well, this could be handy for some situations.

2013-05-30 08:30:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Linux Mint 15 screenshots

2013-05-30 08:19:20 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

Learned something new

I just learned that pressing ctrl and clicking 'back' -icon opens up previous page in new tab... And I've been using this browser for some time. :D Didn't know that works with icons as well. Yay to Chrome!

2013-05-30 07:43:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Nice! Custom colors for Google Calendar for Android... News found via +Sami Haahtinen 

2013-05-29 17:59:11 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Gmail inbox gets new, simple organization for mail

2013-05-29 09:54:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Two-factor authentication for largest services.

Recommended.

2013-05-29 07:18:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hey Metalheads!

Here's small community for you to talk about metal music, concerts and other related things.

While it's closed community, practically all applicants get in...

2013-05-28 19:58:12 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Construction time 30-45 minutes...

...bollocks! I spent nearly 3 hours putting that devil's machinery into one piece! My wife bought this contraption and I had to figure out how to get working exercising device out of it. Instructions were just bunch of pictures with some guessing left to builder and some parts weren't just made fit together.

Despite that it's now fully working crosstrainer (that is missing three screws, but they don't matter).

2013-05-28 03:47:09 (2 comments, 5 reshares, 9 +1s)

How those passwords eventually get cracked

Good article (just quick scratch like all articles usually tend to be) about passwords, hashes and security.

Remember folks, it's the length that counts...;) And yes, there's that XKCD strip about passwords in it.

2013-05-27 09:30:47 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

Happy 91st birthday, Sir Christopher Lee!

2013-05-27 08:23:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Source code for Google Glass

News about it: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/24/google-creates-dedicated-developer-page-for-glass-system-images-and-kernels-xe5-image-and-pre-rooted-bootloader-already-posted/

2013-05-27 05:05:26 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 9 +1s)

So, let me get this straight, the proposal is to allow content owners to distribute malware??? Via http://TrendSpottr.com/

2013-05-26 19:48:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Just watched Neverwas.

Story about psychiatrist who want to find more about his father and returns to his old neighbourhood. There he finds one mental patient who claims to be a king in book that psychiatrist father wrote.

Nice story, good acting (especially Ian McKellen) and good setting. Couple things that could be seen beforehand, but they didn't hinder the experience. Nice adult "fairytale".

2013-05-26 08:40:25 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Watched last night The Oxford murders.

Seemingly good plot about murders happening in Oxford. Professor and student are examining logical series that seem to intertwine into murders.

Pretty good acting, story flows and has even some twists in it. Ending was rather good, but was maybe bit too long. Decent thriller, but nothing extraordinary.

2013-05-25 19:26:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Also watched 2001 Maniacs last night.

Quite typical gore/teen shock movie, with all ordinary cliches out there.

A village of southern people who will think that 'South will rise again' and hate all yanks get eight teens heading for holiday as their guests. Eventually true side of things is revealed to the teens and they are going to survive from village people.

Ok acting, good plot, but feeling that all this is seen before. Still recommended for all horror movie fans. Some gore and nudity.

2013-05-25 19:20:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Watched last night The Dead girl.

Movie that tried to work on five different levels and failed... All these short stories how they try to connect to the dead girl feel somewhat loose and hollow. While acting was decent, story didn't flow here... Can't recommend.

2013-05-25 17:52:19 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

Enjoying dram of bourbon (Knob creek 9yo) from glencairn glass...

2013-05-24 13:35:11 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Finished last evening last season (6) of Pasila.

Maybe one of the best Finnish animations, where audience is following the happenings of Pasila police precinct. Main character Kyösti Pöysti is pacifier-sucking, cynical and against all stupidity.

Have to admit that the last season was really great. I loved first two seasons, but series went somewhat downhill after those. This was good ending for whole series.

Shared link to english-spoken version, where Pöysti is renamed Anderson...

2013-05-23 11:10:32 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Just got my invitation to new Google maps!

Have to say that it looks great and there's nice and snappy search tool for finding stuff from different locations. And that 3D-map gives some perspective...;) Navigation feels far better than before too! This map-freak is probably spending the rest of the day examining new stuff...

I would have added screenshot about it, but G+ doesn't accept my uploads right now?

2013-05-22 09:37:59 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

PSA
I'm No Longer Female aka How To Make What's Hot More Interesting Sans Banal Platitudes

A few weeks ago, two posters highlighted a very bizarre finding on Google Plus. That your profile's gender specification (Male, Female, Other) influenced the content you saw in the former Explore and What's Hot tabs respectively.

Google's Chief Architect offered feedback that the  Explore tab was using an older, more gender sensitive algorithm, however the What's Hot tab had been modernised, with gender as a factor, but not a big one. If anyone wants to know, what you see in What's Hot is supposed to take into account "properties inherent to the post and the viewer, which includes profile information," he said. A subsequent update mentioned that the algorithm had since been updated and all should be well in Feministaland. I decided to test... more »

2013-05-21 12:58:34 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Focusing on network vulnerabilities

Next two days I'm taking part in course that might teach me something about countering attacks towards our network.

Have to admit that it is somewhat exciting how much vulnerabilities and possible exploits we will find during (and after) this course...

2013-05-20 04:54:22 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

Focusing on network vulnerabilities

Next two days I'm taking part in course that might teach me something about countering attacks towards our network.

Have to admit that it is somewhat exciting how much vulnerabilities and possible exploits we will find during (and after) this course...

2013-05-17 19:31:30 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Made some chicken tonight...

First I put all chicken pieces evenly on pan. After that I covered them with blue cheese, crushed lime-seasoned cashews and finally bbq sauce. Put them into oven for half an hour and got really delicious dish. Enjoyed them with white wine. Not bad experiment!

2013-05-17 10:34:31 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 16 +1s)

Machine that goes PING!

Some humor for friday... This might be my favorite Monty Python sketch, there are many others but this one shines amongst them. 30 years of age, but still entertains today.

2013-05-17 08:23:26 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Why I can't see new posts?

After hitting that 'new' -button, my canal flowed posts into next lock (see my earlier post: https://plus.google.com/117166962835543791045/posts/R1KENdjsGEn) but I saw only roughly 10 new posts... Others were old posts that I had read earlier. So where those 290 posts went?

Unless I keep clicking that 'new' -button continuously, I'll miss most of new posts, because all posts are re-load and popular old posts are offered again.

Is anyone else having this problem? +Google+ Helper 

2013-05-17 05:08:13 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Google+ doesn't have stream anymore, but canal with locks

I just realized that stream is something that moves on continuously and this "stream" here has stagnated into canal with locks. Every time you push that 'new' -button, you open a lock and let posts flow into next lock.

2013-05-16 10:20:00 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

While everyone is blabbing how good/bad this new UI in Google+ is, there have been some changes elsewhere too. Check out the new buttons in GMail!

2013-05-16 09:30:37 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

For more than two years, the #Linux operating system has contained a high-severity vulnerability that gives untrusted users with restricted accounts nearly unfettered "root" access over machines, including servers running in shared Web hosting facilities and other sensitive environments. Surprisingly, most users remain wide open even now, more than a month after maintainers of the open-source OS quietly released an update that patched the gaping hole.

2013-05-16 08:32:07 (27 comments, 7 reshares, 15 +1s)

Bring back the auto-update to stream!

It's the only thing I'm asking... Everything else I can cope with. And yes, this looks good, only functionality has suffered.

2013-05-16 04:32:13 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

AAARGH!

Stream layout with posts queued (like it used to be) causes huge whitespace in astronomical scale to appear... Me no like!

Otherwise this seems snappy and working solution.

2013-05-14 18:10:27 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

It's nice to learn something new every day... I didn't know that oxygen plays so vital part around us.

2013-05-14 10:45:09 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

And some humor about my current home town Kouvola... All things might not open up if you aren't one of the locals. ;)