YLE / Iraq / Electronics

A new, rather promising search-engine has surfaced. Check Clusty. It can make some kind of automatic categorisation of the results, which makes the user interface easier to use than that of Google. I have not yet tried it seriously and do not know how wide part of the net it covers at the moment. My workmate Matti L told that he has find several articles, which he could not find with Google, with Clusty. Nice thing to notice is that there is still lots of room for improvements in the area of search enginers (and definitely a need, too).

YLE

The current YLE-farce is not over for a while. The current CEO will continue for one extra year and search for new one continues. The other old-man was forced to resign from the post of chairman of the board. Heh! Maybe there is still some slight hope in this country, but some cynical theories have already appeared: that the central/agrarians set the social democrats up and now the sosdems looks like the biggest wrong-doers here. I do not think that the agrarians would be clever enough.

Iraq

Mr Kerry and Mr Bush met for the first time in a televised discussion. At least BBC thinks that Kerry was slightly better (and that this discussion would have made Mr Kerry more popular). Hope so! Or then not: if Mr Bush win, dollar will dive deep, which would be good for my financial problems in MIT. But wtf, money is not that important, is it. See what the Guardian says about the debate. The whole transcript is available at International Herald Tribune if you want to check it yourself. I may not. Meanwhile, a series of blast in Iraq have killed at least 35 persons, and an attack on Samarra by USA has left at least 95 dead. Another bomb went of at a mosque in Pakistan; Israeli tanks and helicopters etc have attacked Gaza for a second day in a row. I wonder how all this somehow is leading to peaceful, democratic, etc Middle-East? I would say that those with power and will should do something at the Israeli-Pakistan conflict. A quick look at the transcript shows this is not a topic in US-debates. Pity.

Electronics

Now we have 3 laptops (all old and crumpy), 1 Zaurus 860 with WLAN card, 1 IP-telephone, 1 router, 1 rice cooker, 2 printers, 1 TV, NAD DVD-playr, 2 amplifiers, LP-player, Paradigm loudspeakers, some mobile phones, microware, washing machine, levitating globe, a short-wave receiver, electric tooth brush, digital camera, SD-memory cards, SD card reader, several bike computers, an old electric tube based radio, many types of electric clocks, lamps of course, electric oven and stove, fridge, an old two-processor desktop computer, a large 19"-display, an old Mac-computer, several different battery chargers, and then some things, which I do not even remember. I think it starts to be quite enough, for now at least.

September

Alun perin julkaistu kuukausikoosteessa "Blogs from September to October 2004".