Arkistojen kätköistä löytynyt video Lasten Päivän vietosta vuodelta 1947. Näkymiä sen hetken tivolista.
Lasten päivät vuonna 1947
January 29th, 2010 — history
“Borgbacken, Borgbacken”
January 29th, 2010 — advertising
Linnanmäen vanha mainos Juice Leskisen laulamana. Muistan nähneeni tämän telkkarista.
Midgard’s 10th anniversary
Midgard is now 10 years old. Congratulations!
Blogging tools and Nettiapina in Finnish
November 17th, 2008 — blogging, cms, suomeksi, tools
Clearly it was time to upgrade some blogs. An old WP install got hacked and invisible spam comments were added to the template. Kiitos paljon to Google for reporting the problem! Just shows how stupid this link spamming is - hacking someone’s site to accomplish nil. Google was vigilant and quickly dropped the infected blog from the index.
Nettiapina in Finnish
I’ve been thinking to set up a Finnish blog. My English is not so grate akshully, and there’ll be one less hindrance when writing in my native tongue.
Nettiapina in Finnish is here: http://nettiapina.fi/blogi/
Greywolves.org goes back to roots
October 29th, 2008 — cms, midgard
This blog post is long overdue. Apologies for that.
After years of non-midgardian existence, the Greywolves’ website went back to the roots. This is the site that started the development of Midgard CMS 10 years ago. The the system has come a long way from the humble beginning.
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Marketing Midgard
July 17th, 2008 — cms, marketing, midgard
Please note that I’m not a developer or member of the Midgard team. I have very little knowledge of the discussion in the community, so the text below may very well be worthless drivel.
Target audience
Midgard can mean many things. As Bergie points out:
For some developers Midgard means the libmidgard object persistence and replication library, and its various language bindings. For some it is MidCOM, an MVC framework for PHP that can be used to build any kind of web services. For some it is a component specific for a task like event registrations management or direct marketing. And finally, for some it is a full end-user application suite like Midgard CMS or OpenPsa.
I see the CMS as the primary product.
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Sadan punnerruksen haaste
June 29th, 2008 — life, projects, suomeksi
Planet PHP:n kautta löytyi tämä Michael Kimsalin blogimerkintä, joka erottui sivun tavallisesta viestivirrasta. Hän esitti kuntoiluun liittyvän haasteen. Ideana on treenata itsensä sellaiseen kuntoon, että pystyy tekemään 100 punnerrusta yhtäjaksoisesti. Kunnon kohottaminen tapahtuu punnertamalla.
hundredpushups.com-sivuilta löytyy ohjeita. Sain alkutestissä vain 16 suoritusta, joten parannettavaa olisi roimasti. Eritoten kilpikäsi joutuu viikinkityylisessä taistelussa koville.
Toki huono tulos johtuu osin käsien heiluttelusta ja muista musiikin kuuntelun oheisaktiviteetteista. Ihan varmasti!
Restaurant Nuevo Latino bullies a blogger
June 24th, 2008 — activism, marketing, pr
Restaurant Nuevo Latino (Helsinki, Finland) is threatening a Finnish blogger Mikko Eerola who has criticized their service in Jaiku and Eat.fi. In Eerola’s opinion, the restaurant is expensive, food is average and the service is poor.
So, what would the restaurant owner manager do? Apologize? Improve the service? Perhaps even take an active role by trying to impress the critic?
Nope. Sending nastygrams is the core of their strategy. They also threatened his wife through her employer. Translated from Eerola’s blog:
“Today representative of the restaurant called my wife’s employer the [Peruvian] embassy, and shot them a full blast. It’s peculiar that my activities as a private citizen are affecting her job as an assistant of the embassy.”
I would call this harassment, but I am not a lawyer.
I can understand the frustration of the restaurant staff. Googling their name brought stuff that they did not want there. But the transition from “a slightly negative review” to “a PR disaster” is a direct consequense of their own harsh actions. Take a wild guess what Google brings up now.
Firefox Download Day
June 18th, 2008 — browser, marketing, tools
O hai!
It’s the Firefox Download Day. Mozilla is trying to set a new Guinness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours. As of writing this, you still have 18 hours to go.
Sampo pankki - 404 multifail
March 30th, 2008 — security, wtf
Sampo Pankki moved to a new platform during easter weekend. This was not just about the web bank, but the whole information system was integrated with the Danske Bank’s system. As everyone has probably heard already, it didn’t go that well.
This page is here mainly for the screenshots on the right. “404 multifail” is an error message on one of their pages - and predicted the situation amazingly well. Update 2008-03-31: Added 404 Multifail, thanks to KuvatOn.
Comments
Sampo had to move to a technically inferior system for business reasons. The real WTF-ness of this platform has not made it to the mainstream media, and Sampo/Danske have been only repairing the visible cross site scripting vulnerabilities. On a more positive note, some other XSS-vulnerabilities have surfaced, and there has been discussion on the subject.