Laskiaispulla

26/01/2005 01:01 | Categories: General | 0 Comments 

A "laskiaispulla" is a traiditional Finnish sort of bun that kids eat during their skiing holidays in February. They've got this roundish shape and they're filled with whipped cream and the most important thing: "mantellimassa" (some sort of marzipan) According to the dictionary, the name comes from "laskiaistiistai" which in English means Shrove Tuesday and in Spanish, "Martes de Carnaval"



I am not a kid anymore but I love these things... It's not February yet and I'm already eating them. In fact, I went to the supermarket and when I saw the packages there, I couldn't resist

U2 Vertigo tour dates

24/01/2005 18:18 | Categories: Music | 0 Comments 

The official U2 site has already posted a list with all the dates and venues for their forthcoming U2 Vertigo tour. For the Spanish fans, they'll be on the 7th of August in Barcelona (and in Madrid and San Sebastian as well) For the northern fans, they'll be in Gothenburg 29th of July and in Oslo on the 27th.

Can't wait, let's see if I can get tickets

Partying and meeting cool people in Helsinki

23/01/2005 22:07 | Categories: General | 0 Comments 

Yesterday I was out and about partying in Helsinki and I had the chance to meet one of the guys who made the port of Python to Series60 possible. He is the guy who runs this blog. We were both quite happy (as in "drunk" ) but I still couldn't resist to thank him and Nokia for releasing such a cool project However, I forgot to ask what are Nokia's long term plans regarding Python on Series60 and if they are going to be really committed to it... Next time I guess!

I also asked if they needed any help in the team but he also said that they're on tight budget so no luck this time

All you can do in Ruby and Python

22/01/2005 02:31 | Categories: General | 5 Comments 

PHP is not going anywhere anytime soon, but competition is getting tougher. Take a look at this article: Rolling with Ruby on Rails. It shows off the power of "Ruby on Rails" a very powerful MVC framework for creating web-based applications with database access. I really like the way the framework "discovers" the action classes, the controllers and how database access is implemented (for God's sake, it's only 2 lines!) And if you want to see more about Ruby on Rails, check out this video where the author shows how to create a simple blogging tool in 10 minutes. Impressive stuff!

I've already said that I'm really impressed by the things that can be achieved in Python and this new Ruby framework looks really really interesting. The more I work with PHP, the more I'm starting to miss a lot of concepts available in Python, Ruby or ObjectiveC+Cocoa (used in Mac OS X)

Looks like the time to move onto other projects is getting closer... We'll see!

Testing from Flickr!

21/01/2005 21:57 | Categories: Moblogged | 2 Comments 

813Backlit_Keyboard
Originally uploaded by phunkphorce.

this is just a test post from flickr... I'm not really going to use it much but I wanted to test if pLog's XMLRPC implementation is compatible with Flick

iPod Shuffle deconstructed

19/01/2005 02:41 | Categories: Apple | 1 Comments 

After the review, somebody has already opened up an iPod shuffle and looked at its guts... It only cost them 99$ and a voided warranty