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tech, part I
Technology ranges from the most simple you could ever imagine, to spaceships and further on. These pictures celebrate the mundane but fascinating world of some pieces of technology. The coffee brewing machine, or percolator, turns on many people’s lives. By pressing roasted and grounded beans through water, the liquid that we call coffee is […]
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Of heavy and light work
Computers and the Internet have changed our world totally. We work, spend leisure time, communicate, and do a bunch of things differently today compared to that of 20 years ago. The internet is one big technological break-through. Even though it’s so obvious today, there was a time that not every big player believed in it. […]
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the world of blogging – short course
The World of Blogging – short course I won’t go much over the history of blogging itself, nor the technology behind. What’s interesting is the nature of blogging, its uses, people behind the scenes (that’s everybody – us) and what new blogging can bring to everyone’s lives. Some people are really into blogs. They may […]
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Does cloud computing have a good future?
Cloud computing means creating an information system whereby the users do not need to have sophisticated computers, instead they are accessing data and programs which are stored and run on a powerful central computer. The idea is not new; in fact in computer science there’s been trends going back and forth, from spread-out to centralized […]
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automatic CV, making job application easier
The way we go through a job application, on both sides, is sometimes cumbersome. What strikes me most is the unaccuracy and possibly completely unverified nature of “job experience” listed in the CV. The job applicant has to write a lot of text, and make changes to it periodically so as to keep it up […]
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the next 50 years – comments about possible technological and other advances
Reading Thomas Sowell’s books about economics is refreshing for a technocrat like me.He’s an american economist, born in 1930. Sowell likes to write text which is understandable to common man, yet he brings out distinguished phenomena of economics in very interesting way. Those kinds of books and their acute findings about even very counter-intuitivephenomena happening […]
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Tuokko – the personal transportation service
One of the things future brings is better service. Take Finland for example, a small country in the northern hemisphere, which doesn’t have too much ofnatural resources. We’ve been struggling for independence and survival forprobably as long as we’ve existed. What makes us rich, is the capability to innovate New. New meaning ways of doing […]
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optimizing vista and testing out the Chrome browser
Recently I’ve been quite involved in doing the taxi exams, which are now over and passed! 🙂 Other than that, I’m trying to get my Windows Vista back on track. It’s quite lazy, seems like there’s a lot of garbage and all kinds of resource-hogging things lying around. What’s different from the age when I […]
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got the taxi license today
It was a nice day. Woke up early at around 7 AM, and headed downtown to the police station. I got my taxi license from there. With the piece of paper, I went to another place to get the ID card. Now I’m ready to hit the streets and start making a career. I’m really […]