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Bookmark: Flickr URL converter

Drag this Flickr img2page to your bookmark bar. Click it to see the original Flickr photo page for a Flickr image.

If you sometimes get an URL like http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1435/5113313258_e96785710d_b.jpg and want to see the original Flickr photo page with all the comments and tags, you can use this simple JavaScript snippet to get there. Drag it to your bookmarks bar and click it when you want to see all the comments and tags for that Flickr image.

Published on October 28, 2010 under Short

Wappu is here

Here’s a little something to get your wappu spirits way up high:
– Wappu dance
– A happy engineering student

Yes, I know. These things are too awesome.

Note: Wappu is a very important festival for the engineering students in Finland.
Extra note: for some reason, I cannot write “wappu” with the regular ‘v’.

Published on April 23, 2010 under Short

WP Super Ache

For some reason, I messed up the installation of WP SuperCache and it was serving old versions of the site to some visitors. I’ve fixed this temporarily by disabling WP Super Cache. I will update this post when I get it fixed for good.

On a related note, I also tweaked the RSS feed last night, so if you got duplicates or something like that in your feed, it’s all my fault. Sorry! But luckily, these changes should make your RSS experience that much better :)

Update: Fixed it by modifying a file path in wordpress/wp-content/advanced-cache.php

Published on March 12, 2010 under Short

Problem with app choice

Steve Litchfield presented a great metaphor of the problem with choice people are having with assorted app stores:

You head down to the jam aisle to ‘get some marmalade’ and are presented with 33 different alternatives, including about 20 subtly differently flavoured and quality-graded variants under the supermarket’s own ‘brand’. Which one do you go for? [the chances are that you'll actually walk away]

Here’s how Steve says it should be:

one room. You ask for marmalade – they stock two brands. You make your pick – that was easy.

Indeed. Thrash or hide the real bad and useless apps, and instead make good content easily accessible.

Published on November 19, 2009 under Short

I bought an iPhone and a MacBook Pro (13″) about two weeks ago

I’ll probably write more about them later. And I’m _probably_ not switching, mainly just wanna try what OS X is like with my own hands.

Opinion after two weeks: iPhone’s great, MacBook has a weird keyboard layout.

Been pretty busy lately working on a refresh for my website, building an iPhone app and organizing GetOnlineLAN :)

Published on October 23, 2009 under Short

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