In June 2002 a Finnish Member of Parliament, Kyösti Karjula, introduced a bill to increase the adoption of Linux in the Finnish government. On a whim I decided to write him a short email to congratulate him on such an effort. Then I added that while a symbolic gesture such as this bill is of course well appreciated, there are other more serious legislative issues going on that could do well with a Linux-friendly spokesperson.

To my great surprise he replied to my email, so some weeks later I wrote this comment on the Finnish implementation of the EUCD.

(Note that the current proposal from the government has already changed from last summer when I wrote this, so some minor details are no longer applicable.)

Thank you to Timo Kiviniemi for such a nice layout. All the essays written for this seminar were also published together in a seminar paper "Loruja" (Helsinki University of Technology, Systems Analysis Laboratory Research Reports, B22, April 2002). The publication is also available on the web.

Randomly pick a web-page with jokes, parse it and pick one joke, and quote it. In C of all languages, because back then I didn't know better.

In addition to making the actual videos, I also master and program the Media7 Web-page.

A school project

A simple, "store it in a file", web page statistics gatherer. Written in PHP.

Another school project, where we made a demo of an alternative, blind person friendly, user interface to the Helsinki public transportation system's "Reittiopas" web application.

When I first started using email, I tought it was fun to make pictures like this.

In the summer 2001 we made this video as a contribution to a discussion on media criticism. Filming, directing and editing is by yours truly.
You will need the DivX codec to play it.