Connection upgrade
Posted by: Toffe on: Wednesday, August 27, 2008
before (1024/512 kbps)
after (Full-Rate 8, up to 8Mb/800 kbps, minimum 2048/512 kbps)
The tests were conducted over a wireless network at home on a MacBook.
XKCD on Perl, Python and Regular expressions
Posted by: Toffe on: Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Python
Lisp
Regular Expressions
p.s if you go the xkcd and hover over the comic strips, you get even more fun.
Tahko MTB 2008
Posted by: Toffe on: Monday, July 14, 2008
I participated in the Tahko mountainbike marathon this summer for the first time. I was in the 60 km race (there are also 25, 40, 120 and 180 km alternatives as well).
For the 60 km, there were three starts, at 9:00 the “hot group” started, at 9:30 those that aimed for a time under 5 hours started, and lastly at 10:00, those who aimed for a time over 5 hours started. I started in the middle of the last group. There were 860 participants in the 60 km for men, I came at 550 place, with a time of 5hours 10 minutes and 8 seconds 
I am fairly pleased with the result. There were a lot of bikers on the track, so i might have gotten a better time if i had started in the middle group, but then it would have been psychologically worse since people would have passed me, instead of me passing them. I went for the fun of biking, and had no particular goal besides finishing. I really enjoyed it. My recently purchased hydrapak drinking bag came in handy, since both hands were needed while biking. And i had filled it with sports dring, which provided me with an even blood sugar level, and water to prevent me from cramping.
Here is a clip form the race.
My brother participated in the 120 km race.
100% of the members of our mountainbiking club 4seasonMTB participated.
Next year i’ll maybe participate in the 120 km race… if i have practised enough.
An interresting detail that can be found from the results is that the winner of the 180 km (three laps of the 60 km track) had 15 min better time when he had finished 2 laps (120 km) than the winner of 120 km. That is something…
A milestone in my life…
Posted by: Toffe on: Tuesday, July 1, 2008
An era hs passed in my life. I have finished school. Yesterday I handed in the application for my Masters degree, which they will mail to me when it is ready. The official date of my graduation from the University of Helsinki / Department of computer science (Where, btw, Linus Torvalds also went) will be 31.07.2008. But all is done and finished.
If you want to read my thesis, you can find it here:
Christoffer Björkskog: “Visualizing social network activity on mobile browsers.” June 2008.
I am currently working for HIIT (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology) as a research assistant for the UIx (Ubiquitous Interaction) research group. We will have our third child in the end of August/beginning of September. We will move to Skutnabba/Pedersöre in the end of July, from where i will work remotely for HIIT at least until end of September
I hate to argue
Posted by: Toffe on: Thursday, March 13, 2008
Even though i am right most of the time 
i find it meaningless to waste time arguing with people. Especially when people are just arguing for the sake of arguing. But if I argue, it is pointless to argue back, because I never argue unless I am 100% percent certain I am right, which means I am right. End of discussion.
Nice little tool
Posted by: Toffe on: Friday, February 29, 2008
I stumbled upon the following interresting little tool:
http://translate.google.com
I, was reading commeonts for a youtube clip, and there was one comment in arabic that i wanted to know what was. I first tried babelfish.altavista.com that can translate webpages but there was not a arabic transation possibility. So i googled for arabic-english translation and found translate.google.com that can translate webpages and also translate text that you can paste in.
I found it very useful.
I have used babelfish.altavista.com several times when i am trying to find some solution to some programming error and the only discussions about a certain error message have been in french or spanish. Then it has helped me to just enter te url to a page and babelfish translates it for me.
translate.google.com has the same feature as well.
It can translate Arabic, Chineese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italin, Japaneese, Korean, Portugese, Russian and Spanish to English or the other way round. Another interresting thing is that if a translation is not really good, you can improve it. This way google takes advantage of collective intelligence so that its system can be taught by experts (you) all around the world.
It also provides a widget that you can put on your webpage that translates it into a language the user desies.
I decided to put the tool to a little test.
I entered the text i wrote earlier in this blogpost.
I stumbled upon the following interresting little tool: http://translate.google.com
I, was reading commeonts for a youtube clip, and there was one comment in arabic that i wanted to know what was. I first tried babelfish.altavista.com that can translate webpages but there was not a arabic transation possibility. So i googled for arabic-english translation and found translate.google.com that can translate webpages and also translate text that you can paste in.
I found it very useful.
And had it translated into German:
Ich bin auf die folgenden interresting kleines Werkzeug: http://translate.google.com
Ich war für eine Lesung commeonts youtube Clip, und es wurde ein Kommentar in arabisch, die ich wollte wissen, was war. Babelfish.altavista.com ich zunächst versucht, die Web-Seiten zu übersetzen, aber es gab keine Möglichkeit, arabisch transation. Also i googeln für die arabisch-Englisch Übersetzungen und translate.google.com gefunden, die Web-Seiten zu übersetzen und auch übersetzen Text, den Sie einfügen können in.
Ich fand es sehr nützlich.
That was translated to French:
Je suis sur le petit outil interresting suivantes: http://translate.google.com
J’étais pour une lecture commeonts youtube clip, et il a été un commentaire en arabe, que j’ai voulu savoir ce qui était. Babelfish.altavista.com je tente tout d’abord, les pages Web à traduire, mais il n’y avait aucune possibilité de transation arabe. Also i Google pour la traduction arabe-anglais et translate.google.com trouvés, les pages Web, ainsi que de traduire de traduire le texte, que vous pouvez insérer in
Je l’ai trouvé très utile.
And that was then translated back to English:
I am on the small tool interresting: http://translate.google.com
I was for a reading commeonts youtube clip, and it was a comment in Arabic, that I wanted to know what was. Babelfish.altavista.com I try first, web pages to be translated, but there was no possibility of transaction Arabic. Also i Google for the Arabic-English translation and translate.google.com found, web pages, and to bring to translate the text, which you can insert in
I found it very useful.
A Parrallel univserse
Posted by: Toffe on: Friday, November 23, 2007
I remember on 7:th grade when ajax was only a washing powder, 64Mb of RAM was extreme and you had to remember what sound card you had when you installed games. I was browsing the internet with some version of Netscape Navigator in school, looking for simpson wav files to set as windows sounds. Then i came to a page that had the subdomain www2 instead of www. I remembered i asked my teacher about the www2, (it was on computer class) and he said that we should stay on the internet and not go on astray to any other stuff. That felt spooky, i remembered that it felt like surfing on the internet in a parallel universe, it felt like the whole internet was made up of infinite parallel universes www, www2, www3 … wwwn where n->infinity. Of course, www is just a subdomain to somdedomain.com, it can just as easily be wtf.somedomain.com or, gimmeachicken.somedomain.com, and you can have subdomains to subdomains to subdomains, just look at the server db.cs.helsinki.fi or scholar.google.com, or maps.google.com
Kind of funny
Posted by: Toffe on: Wednesday, May 16, 2007
- In: humor
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I think this is kind of funny:
Reaching the entire world in one generation
Posted by: Toffe on: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
- In: God| Life| church| disciple| faith in Jesus| jesus
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Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” – Matthew 28:18-19
I wonder how long Jesus had in mind it would take the church to do this. Well it has gone 2000 years since… Has something gone very wrong? I think one problem is that we as individuals do not take this command seriously nor personally, we think it’s “the church’s job” as in “there are those who get paid to do that kind of stuff”
Well my dear audience. If that is the case, we will never see the world saved.
This applies to you and me. But the problem is also that we make it too complicated.
It´s about living out the love of God where you are, being light and salt.
Instead of one trying to reach all, all should try to reach one..
I made a simple world salvation calculator that shows that in one generation every person on this planet could be saved, even if we started from 1.
We as individuals need to make disciples, who makes disciples, who makes disciples…
Just focus on one, two or three and learn them everything you know. A good leader duplicates himself. Jesus focused on 12 and taught them for three years. If we discipled one person a year (who would start to do the same) in 33 years every single man on earth would be a disciple.
The new Halo 2 multiplayer maps
Posted by: Toffe on: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
- In: games| halo 2| xbox
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Today 2 new multiplayer maps for Halo 2 were released.
Tombstone
My old favorite multiplayer map from the first Halo game, “Hang ‘Em High” has been remaked to Halo 2 and released under the name “Tombstone” here is a videoclip from that map.
It is easy to identify a lot of places from Hang Em High, I feel right at home already. There is for instance the good old “Stanleys favoritställe” and “Osynligheten” (inside terminology from our multiplayer fellowship.. names for places on maps are born quickly in order to know where the other team members and especially the enemy team players are)
Desolation
The other map is a remake of “Derelict” now called “Desolation”. I didn’t play Derelict as much so it’s not as exciting as Tombstone but it looks like it will be fun playing.
p.s i had the wolume down when writing this (parent syndrom) so i haven’t heard any sound from the clips. Hope none are offending.
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