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 the apartment
- 75 litre sack full of old clothes
- 40 litre sack full of old shoes
- 50 litre sack full of saw dust
- two 30 litre plastic bag full of glass jars
- half a litre of used batteries
- shoebox full of old mobile phones, portable cd-players and walkmans
- half a litre of old penicillin and other drugs, a used thermometer
- two used fluorescent light bulbs
Friday:
- New laptop with WLAN working! Ubuntu Feisty! 3D! Compiz!
Saturday:
- Woke up to catch the bus to Turku
- GPRS! Working battery!
- At Turku AOP’07
- Real brewed ginger ale
- Kingston KPEX100!
No, but really. The new laptop, HP nc4200 is wonderful. The batteries last a long time, the wlan and bluetooth both work now and they’re INTERNAL. The hardware is good enough to run Gnome AND Compiz, the installation of programs is fast, and I like it.
The discussion with my boss resulted into a decision of having me fulltime since the start of this month until August, which equals into me getting relatively lot money in June. I know that I’m going to get a heart rate monitor with that money, but I’m getting suspicious over whether to get the pink Suunto T3 or the black Polar F6.
Turku AOP’07 (Open Software Day) was nice. The new library building seems ok, even though I didn’t have that much time to look around. I got to be in the discussion panel and I got the KPEX100.
The device isn’t really small, but it’s not really big either. The features are nice and I think it’s quite good. The menus are quite logical for me, and I didn’t need the manual to set up the clock or pretune the radio channels.
I met a lot of people familiar to me only via IRC yesterday, ln and ninnnu to mention a few. I think there were some other people too, but I must’ve missed them. I was a bit tired. Elias (Aarnio) was kind enough to give me a ride from the bus station to the library and from the library to the railway station. Me, Elias and Timo did go for a ride with Föri and a dinner though before the railway station. The Italian restaurant in Hämeenkatu was excellent.
