Miia Ranta

I’ve already forgotten if I’ve told you that I bought the black Polar F6. Anyway, the effects it’s having on me are quite clear.
I also registered to kalorilaskuri.fi, which is great.

Dear users, developers and other contributors of Open Source, I write this letter as a contributor of Ubuntu, and as a member of the Ubuntu Women project.
As a Woman and an Open Source contributor, I see a number of behaviours within the Open Source community that are quite counterproductive to the community. Many of these [...]

Wednesday:

Peeking to the Aquarium (aka IT department) to see if the onsite customer care chap has replaced the broken display on the laptop promised to me
Stress over forthcoming discussion with the boss about summer
Discuss the matter with the boss
Rejoice (full time since 1st of May to end of August)!
WLAN of the new laptop doesn’t work

Thursday:

Cleaning [...]

I just so badly want a T3. Preferably in rose. And the PC POD, too. The batteries on the old one dried up few months ago and the nordic walking hasn’t been the same since. I know replacing the batteries would be the cheapest solution, but I’m not really that confident that it’s easy, affordable [...]

I’ve had my phone since late January and I quite early on found a few bugs. The biggest showstopper was a bug in bluetooth stack (I presume), that caused the phone to spontaneously shut down after certain amount of data transfer over obex. It made me to do certain adjustments to my script handling my [...]

Curry chicken nuked (four servings)
approx. 500 g unmarinated chicken fillet sliced
salt
½ veggie stock cube
½ dl water
sauce:
½ dl cream
½ dl water
1 ½ teaspoons curry powder
1 ½ – 2 tablespoons of wheat flour
juice of ½ lemon
fresh parsley
Lay out the chicken pieces into a bowl, sprinkle salt on both sides. Crumble the stock cube on the top and [...]

I’m a big fan of cheese and I’ve been waiting to get my hands on these two recipes found in my mothers cooking recipies collection. These are from the book written by Anna Bergenström, original title Annas mat – stora kokboken.
Quiche without the crust
1 small zucchini
1 big shallot
~100g fresh mushrooms
6 eggs
½ dl wheat flour
2 dl [...]

SO started to complain about my mp3-player that he’s been using at the gym. A little poking around revealed that perhaps the best choice in the price category that’s available in Finland is Kingston’s already discontinued product KPEX100.
KPEX100 can play mp3, wma and ogg (perhaps others), can be used as text or jpg viewer, runs [...]

Majordomo is trying to conquest me, and doing a great job with it. My patience with it is running short at the moment. I cannot believe that someone actually offers their clients with no flexible tool to configure mailing lists. “Use pico.” Bwah.
Related, I do like my spot at the office. It’s in a corner, [...]

As the Eurovision Hulabaloo is starting here in Finland…