Category Archives: Job

Kesäkoodi 2008

Posted on 2008-04-05 (Saturday) by myrtti

The third year of Kesäkoodi (Summercode Finland) is going fast and furiously ahead. After a hectic season of receiving applications, processing them, giving feedback and suggestions, answering to applicants questions and asking them a whole lot more, the easiest part … Continue reading →

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1-2-3-4

Posted on 2007-05-20 (Sunday) by myrtti

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 … Continue reading →

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How I do enjoy my work.

Posted on 2007-05-08 (Tuesday) by myrtti

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. … Continue reading →

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6233, education, knitting, winter

Posted on 2007-01-21 (Sunday) by myrtti

Winter has finally arrived to Tampere, and I’m trying to enjoy it as much as possible. Yesterday I went for a long walk, listening to radio and talking to my mom on the phone. The sun and the snow were … Continue reading →

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Parking lots, hares and OEM Ubuntu

Posted on 2006-07-22 (Saturday) by myrtti

[11:21] <@Myrtti> but anyways, I guess the parking lot idea that I had yesterday was pretty good [11:22] <@Myrtti> I’m trying to install OEM Ubuntu on some laptops at work in such a way that I could use them to … Continue reading →

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GUADEC 2006

Posted on 2006-06-24 (Saturday) by myrtti

I’m not at Vilanova i la Geltrú. I left home yesterday at 1900 UTC+0200, and finally arrived at 1230 UTC+0100 here. The flights were an intresting experience, partly because I haven’t been in a plane for almost a decade now. … Continue reading →

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Nothing good without something bad

Posted on 2006-06-01 (Thursday) by myrtti

Things are going pretty well, as I said in one of my previous postings. I dare to reveal that I’ve gotten a job. At COSS, for 6 months to write my final diploma work about “Migration of corporate desktop computers … Continue reading →

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Communities

Posted on 2006-05-05 (Friday) by myrtti

If I had a business card, the title would most probably be community liaison or something similar. Silly that me, the one who’s almost all her life been sort of social dropout, seem to be the one to wake the … Continue reading →

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lollerskates

Posted on 2006-05-04 (Thursday) by myrtti

What a hoot! Went to HP Linux forum today. You sort of expect corruption gifts in these kinds of events. In February I got the Novell Tux at Tieturi (Finnish IT-coaching/education/courses company) event sponsored by ie. Novell. But this sort … Continue reading →

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Tired as hell

Posted on 2006-05-03 (Wednesday) by myrtti

Summer Code Finland participants have been chosen. Lucky for me, at least four of them use IRC. Their projects seem really intresting, so I’m happy. I’ve been tossing the idea of COSS participating in Assembly’06 this year. I wish the … Continue reading →

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