Black Falcon

Falcon Motorcycles builds up yet another beauty. Pretty nice if you ask me.

Falcon Motorcycles unveils its Black | Money & Company | Los Angeles Times

More detailed view in bike-exif

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Sunset reflecting from the railway station.

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Autumn trees

Near töölön lahti.

House I wouldn't mind living in.

Jugend-house beside Helsinki's botanical garden.

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Terveisiä nordealle

Varusteleka.fi hyvien puolella.

New air filter in place.

I got tired of velocity stack of sucking my pant leg.

Villa Onnenmyyrä

At night.

Kuukumina

@Fredan talli

Me at bar prkl

Foto by the wife

Mirror's Edge?

Pikkuhuoplahti

Sun over Pakila

What a nice afternoon.

Bob Log III

Gig @bar Loose

Cold cold ground

@Tavastia

Turmion kätilöt

@Tavastia

Frost over pakila

Frozen trees

Delete delete delete delete please delete please delete the word sed.

There are times when I just should use perl.

Minimal remote webserver test.

Using sh and telnet magic.

Workmate of mine had to resort to perl. I was sure it could be done with just a sh-script. I was right. What a beauty. Copy & Paste below or go to pastebin.

#!/bin/sh
timeout=10
tracefile=telnettrace
HOST=$1

telnet_commands() {
 tout=${timeout}
 echo open $1 80

 sleep 1

 while [ "$tout" -ge 0 ]
 do
  if tail -1 $tracefile 2>/dev/null | grep "character" > /dev/null
  then
   echo "HEAD / HTTP/1.0\n"
   tout=-15
   continue
  else
   sleep 1
   tout=$[$tout-1]
  fi
 done
 tout=${timeout}
 while [ "$tout" -ge 0 ]
 do
  if tail -1 $tracefile 2>/dev/null | grep  "^$" > /dev/null
  then
   tout=-15
   continue
  else
   sleep 1
   tout=$[$tout-1]
  fi
 done
}

telnet_commands $HOST | telnet |tee $tracefile

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Maemo Diablo released!

Go get it while its hot.

[Edit] Apparently you need change distribution to chinook on repositories if you want to install your old applications. Personally I'm going to wait. See internettablettalk for more detail.

[Edit 2] See http://wiki.maemo.org/Upgrading_tablet_OS if you're like me and forget allways the appropriate flasher flags.

Radiohead (post industrial?) remix

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

Greasbag Jamboree imminent

Bring em on!

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Performance of Ajax Applications on Mobile Devices

Mikko Pervilä has released his execellent Masters Thesis on measuring Ajax performance on different mobile devices

From the Abstract:

This thesis evaluates the presentational capability and measures the performance of five mobile browsers on the Apple iPhone and Nokia models N95 and N800. Performance is benchmarked through user-experienced response times as measured with a stopwatch. 12 Ajax toolkit examples and 8 production-quality applications are targeted, all except one in their real environments. In total, over 1750 observations are analyzed and included in the appendix. Communication delays are not considered; the network connection type is WLAN.

Results indicate that the initial loading time of an Ajax application can often exceed 20 seconds. Content reordering may be used to partially overcome this limitation. Proper testing is the key for success: the selected browsers are capable of presenting Ajax applications if their differing implementations are overcome, perhaps using a suitable toolkit.

Go read it

Hill climbers

Excellent hill climbing video from the 30's

My Integer.

I'm now a proud owner of my very own integer.

6C 86 DF 5E BD 84 6B E2 5D C9 1E 2F FC 69 4C D2

You aren't allowed to know it. Use it. Publish it. Discuss about it. Think about it. It is mine. ALL MINE!

But you can get your own!