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Finnish politics and SMS

What is it with Finnish politics and SMS messages? First prime minister Vanhanen dumps his girlfriend by SMS and now a foreign minister gets fired over some SMS messages to a stripper.

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2008 04 01 Jilles Blog Posts Comments (0)

Little WTF moment this morning

I wanted to look up something in the w3c soap spec so I typed “SOAP w3c” in the google searchbox in firefox and hit enter. Google came back with this page:

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2006 09 27 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (0)

Musa sapientum fixa est in aure

A long time ago, I learned Latin in school. Latin is a dead language, and other than appreciating sites like this, it is of little use to me. In fact, I’ve forgotten most of what I learned.
But today I discovered a nice web site, kindly provided by the Finnish broadcasting company, that might be useful [...]

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2006 05 02 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (0)

I love this country

An event I’ve ignored for years and tactically zapped around on the TV is the eurovision song festival. When I was in Sweden, Sweden happened to win it (1999?). I heard about this while partying in Bågen, a very lousy night club in Ronneby. This year, I might keep an eye on the TV because [...]

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2006 03 21 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (1)

despair.com

One of the .coms that survived (and ridiculed) the whole .com thing is despair.com. For years now their calendars have been a yearly treat. Hilarious, month by month (the individual months are put online, at unprintable but readable size). I’ve been regularly checking their site since around 1999. And now they have a vidcast. [...]

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2006 03 02 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (0)

don’t try this at home

Steve, Don’t eat it
There’s some filthy stuff out there on the internet but this beats everything.

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2006 01 23 Jilles Uncategorized Comments (0)