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Tadah! It’s my great pleasure and joy to announce that this little server box that runs this website has been up for

373 days (and counting!)

This is pretty impressive in my opinion if you consider that

• It should have all the security patches installed
• During this time, it has been retired from it’s duty to function as a SPI firewall
• The floor of the room where it is physically located was renovated
• It is not high-end server hardware but rather modest system build from used parts
• I don’t have really that much time to maintain it.

Let’s see how far it gets. I am planning to rebuild it once I have the money (and most importantly) time to do that. But until then the only maintenance it is getting on the hardware site is a vacuuming on the room every once in a while.

This week has been interesting. I have been accomplishing quite a lot and yet somehow I feel empty.

At work I finally managed to pull off one thing that I’ve been working on for quite a long time now. This, once it gets going, should result in more interesting work and hopefully some monetary extra.

On freetime, I have managed to do sports five times this week (counting only sessions lasting more than an hour). This is a bit more than my usual average, and feels great. Also, we managed to do some serious filming again with NUD on wednesday and some editing on saturday. This was a very productive and enjoyable week on the freetime sector.

During the weekend I only drank a few beers and watched some movies with my wife. Again, quite enjoyable. The thing that makes me feel empty though is this: I am now concretely hitting the mark where I just don’t have any more energy left to do anything else. Really. If my boss would ask me to work some extra time or I would try to fit in another excercise to my schedule, or perhaps would manage to see more friends, it would most likely result in stress rather than better feelings.

It’s a vicious circle really. To have it good like I would argue that I have now, it takes effort. This effort is very close to the maximum capacity that I have. This situation leads very easily to questions such as:

• If I fall ill or some accident happens, what then?
• Is this really all there is to this life?
• Am I doing the right things?
• In case I am, am I doing those in correct order?

I am not the kind of person who would easily admit that I maybe have problems. Period. I am the kind of person who rather takes a problem and solves it. I am so sick of hearing people complain and rant about things being wrong. Go and fix the ones you can and forget the ones that you can’t fix!

But then again. If I myself can’t stretch to more accomplishment anymore, what then? I guess I’ll have to think about the current situation really thoroughly. Sleep over it and soforth, it typically gets better over time.

During this week, a group of people has been gathering funds to publish an ad in the largest newspaper in Finland, that is, Helsingin Sanomat (well, ok, not in the main paper but still). The ad is not obscene or very provocative even. It basically says “These people (who are the ones now running for parliament) voted for the law, and these people voted against.” Read the scoop from the Vaalimasinointi.org, who are the ones behind the ad.

Since I believe that passing the law was a stupid mistake and Finland is going to pay dearly for that, it is very frustrating to see that Finland’s biggest newspaper which, grated, has a very bad track record of being truly independent and party-neutral publisher, turned down the ad.

Well. even though it’s morally wrong, I guess it’s their right to team up with the Finnish equivalent of the MAFIAA. Probably makes a good business sense if you optimize for the past and stagnation. Good thing that I don’t subscribe to expensive partisan probaganda that is the HS.