October 30th, 2007 by Jarkko
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Do you dream about writing a novel one day? Dream no longer, just do it. This November you can join the ranks of thousands of writers and write your first novel with just one goal in mind: to come up with a story with 50,000 words by midnight, November 30.
Can this really be done? Why not give it a shot?
October 27th, 2007 by Jarkko
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Last week I announced that I would post less frequently from now on until the beginning of next year. This week I wrote three posts plus this one instead of the six posts I have been used to. How did it go?
October 26th, 2007 by Jarkko
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Do you have favorite software? I do. I know it’s geeky and all, but Backpack from 37Signals does what it’s supposed to do with such elegance and simplified style that it has got me hooked.
I have said it before, but this is something I’m not afraid to repeat: I am a fan of that fine piece of handicraft.
October 24th, 2007 by Jarkko
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When I was six years old my family moved to Africa. I spent most of my childhood, or the part of it that I can remember in the West African country of Senegal. Inspired by the Blog Action Day, last weekend I realized that there are a great deal of things that we can learn from the ways how things are done there.
October 22nd, 2007 by Jarkko
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I’m a big fan of sourdough bread. I love the slow process in which flour and water become a tasty, crunchy bread. The feeling of a miracle when you see the first bubbles appear to your dough. And the idea that the starter can live for centuries to be shared from father to son and grandson.
There is something special to it that you don’t see too often in our modern fast-paced lives.
October 20th, 2007 by Jarkko
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Last Monday, October 15th was the day that many bloggers had been looking forward to already for a few months: Blog Action Day. On that day 20,603 bloggers joined their forces by writing 23,327 blog posts about a common cause, the environment. While it’s hard to measure how many readers were reached, at least the 14,631,038 RSS feed readers of the participating blogs got to see a post related to the theme.
October 18th, 2007 by Jarkko
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I’m writing this blog post at a bus stop next to the central railway station in Helsinki. No matter what direction I look, I see someone fighting for my attention: One bus is telling me about an upcoming charity concert that brings together some of the most recent finish pop idols. One is trying to get me to lease a car. And just now the bus 17 passed me by with huge ads for the grocery store chain Alepa.
October 16th, 2007 by Jarkko
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When you think of a person you’d like to get to know and think for a perfect example, I bet you think of a rock star.
Someone like Bono from U2, Chris Martin from Coldplay, or Kevin Max, probably best known from dc Talk.
October 15th, 2007 by Jarkko
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What’s the greatest risk that you can think of in your current project?
Maybe the lead programmer gets sick and can’t deliver the code you were counting on. Or maybe the construction workers quit because of poor working conditions. Or maybe just before reaching the finish line, your customer tells you that your product is nothing like they expected it to be.
Now imagine a risk of a similar multitude that’s not limited to your project but concerns the whole human population: the climate crisis.
October 12th, 2007 by Jarkko
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You would assume that people living this north would get used to the fact that winter comes every year. I don’t know how it is in places like Canada, Sweden or Russia, but at least here in Finland winter gets us by surprise every time. People realize that the roads are slippery only after the first few yearly accidents. And even after that it takes a while before we take action and switch to winter tires.