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Upgraded my wordpress, was long due.

I have noticed a decline in my (not that active) blogging lately - very likely due to the jaiku.com, facebook and flickr etc social web overload altogether. Also, like some others have also suggested, it seems “microblogging” (jaiku etc) really reduce the amount of “proper” blogging, as the daily life and its little quirks and delights get written in such sites already. There are even less meaningful things to write to ones blog, I guess.

Yet, Jaiku, for example, is nothing more than a “planet” and some IRC-likeness thrown in. But it encourages you to write short messages instead of long posts. And it pulls in the comments to a feed. Hmm. That would be an interesting addition to Planet btw - if it could aggregate blog posts and their comments into one “flow”..? Might be interesting, or insane. Not sure which

However, let’s see. I am starting to be just way overwhelmed with all this “web2.0″ crack anyway, maybe things settle down eventually. Interesting observation nevertheless.

So, its this time of the year again. For those who have the Nokia internet tablets and are going to be there, this might be useful (I created a small location database for maemo mapper, containing some things related to guadec 2007)

I think Strobist has changed the way I look at photography, flash units and light, forever. Thank you!

Now, all I have to do is practice.

I found a simple Java application to backup my flickr photos to local harddisk - while many of them exist on my computer already and were just added to flickr for sharing, there are lots of camera phone pictures I don’t have around anywhere else. Thus such a thing makes sense.

However, the tool is a bit simple, does not understand incremental backups etc, it seems. Anyone in the (lazy)web2.0 circles done something like this with Python or something that also syncs the tags and other metadata?

Stripes are in!

Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen

Design for maemo website

Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen

We’re working on a decent frontpage for www.maemo.org, to put the new site framework into use. Feedback is welcome and very much appreciated.

Today we, the people of Tango project, created 199 icons to refresh the icon set included in the Gtk+ toolkit. In one day. Call it the power of the community or free software development model, or whatever. I think it rocks!

I think they look awesome - 9 people managing to use a common visual style is also a pretty remarkable. I think we made the right choice to go with SVG and a clear workflow to follow.

Congratulations everyone, I really hope the voice of reason wins and we can get this in gtk+ upstream - I remember the days when I drew the first icon and everyone jumped up and down for the simple fact that we had icons. Let’s not stop the creativity this time either, guys!

One thing I want to do in the future is to start thinking towards high-dpi screens (not just N800 - this is coming to desktops and laptops too) - we will need more icons in the larger end of the scale - and I, wearing my Nokia hat, want to work together with the community to define this for us all, so we can avoid duplicate work. Besides, the smaller the pile of patches Maemo has against mainstream free software the better.

The last 7 days or so have been pretty incredible weather-wise - as if someone had stolen all the weather from scandinavia… No need to use my N800 to check weather this time
I went flying on wednesday evening at dusk, incredibly smooth air and very beautiful up there in a weather like this..

I am posting this from the N800 using maemo-blog! Um, er… “Hello world!”

Dear lazyweb, how hard is it to make Adam Curry who ponders Nokia N800, GPS and some clever code to find out about Geoclue? (hi! good show!)