Category Archives: Finland

Resepti: Kana Caesar

Croutons : Uniin päällä. Laitta pakastettuna leipä mikroaaltouuniin ja lämmitävät. Leikkaa ja laitaa uunilevylle. Miksata öljyllä ja valkosipulilla. Odottaa.

Majoneesi : 1dl rypsiöljy. Yhden kanamuna (ei rikkitää) ja vähän sinappi. Käytää sauvamixeri(sauvasekoitin on oikea sana) . Laitta pieni kulhoon ja lisätä valkosipulii ja suola.

Salaatti: pieni tomaattia, salaatti, yksi avokaado, 400g kanaafilee vaan suolattu. Paistaa kanaa viimeistä ja kun se on valmis laitta croutonit uuniin muutama minuuttia.

Tarjota parmeggiano pöydällä.

Tadaa :)

Reseptit: Avokado pasta

Kahdelle

Ohjeet: Hakata yhden keltainen sipuli. Laita kattilaan öljyllä. Miksata turkalainen jogurtti ja kaksi avokadoa. Suolata runsaasti ja vähän mustapippuria. Laitta vesi päällä spaghetille.

Avokado sipulille. Rakastaa puoli parmeggiano levy ja laitta melkein kaikki kattilaan. Ylimäärä pöydälle.

Puristaa puoli sitruuna kattilaan. Kun on lämmin se on valmis. Viimeistä Spaghetti kattilaan. Tsekkaa jos lisää suola ja pippuri on tarvetavissa.

Resepti: ChilliFetaPasta

Kahdelle

Osat:

Fetajuustoa levy 200g
180g spaghetti
1 chilli / habanero
~ 350g tomaattia
Oliiviöljy
Suola ja Pippuri

Ohjeet :

Laitta uunin päällä 250C astetta. Feta levy uuniformille, tomaattia ympäri sen. Hakkaa chilli ja laitta juuston päällä. Paljon öljy yli kaikki. Suolata ja pipurita :) 25min uunissa.

Kun vesi on 100C laitta suola ja sen jälkeen spaghettin.

Kun tomaattia on rikki ota formmi uunista ja miksata feta ja chilli. Laitta kaikki yhdessä.

Bon App!

Resepti: Kana Korma

How to rotate??

Reseptit: Tuorepuuro Mustikalla

Ainesosit:

Maitorahka (pehmeä) 250g
Maito 100g
Nesteinen Hunaja 6-10g
Pakaste Mustikka 100g
Kaurahiutaleita 40g
1 laatikko

Ohjeet:

Laita mustikoita laatikkoon ja odottaa noin tunti. Sen jälkeen laitta kaikki muut ainesosit laatikkoon ja miksata. Huomata että mustikoita eivät menevät liian rikki kuin haluat. Sulje laatiko ja laitta jääkaapiin yli yö.

Nautista aamulla!

wtangy.se/menu – now with a menu!

https://wtangy.se/menu has been born!

A colorful menu where one can (at least I hope) fairly easily choose a team if one does not want to change the URL :)

This was a requirement for being able to make a simple webview app :)

wtangy.se – site rename and automatic deployments!

This is a good one!

Previous entries in this series: http://www.guldmyr.com/blog/wasthereannhlgamelastnight-com-now-using-object-storage/ and http://www.guldmyr.com/blog/wasthereannhlgamelastnight-appspot-com-fixed-working-again/

Renamed to wtangy.se

First things first! The website has been renamed to wtangy.se! Nobody in their right mind would type out ~~wasthereannhlgamelastnight.com~~.. so now it’s an acronym of wasthereannhlgameyesterday. wtangy.se . Using Sweden .se top level domain because there was an offer making it really cheap :)

Automatic testing and deployment

Second important update is that now we do some automatic testing and deployment.

This is done with travis-ci.org where one can view builds, the configuration is done in this file.

In google cloud there’s different versions of the apps deployed. If we don’t promote a version it will not be accessible from wtangy.se (or wasthereannhlgamelastnight.appspot.com) but via some other URL.

Right now the testing happens like this on every commit:

deploy the code to a testing version (which we don’t promote)
then we run some scripts:
1. pylint on the python scripts
2. an end to end test which tries to visit the website.
if the above succeeds we do deploy to master (which we do promote)

wasthereannhlgamelastnight.appspot.com – fixed – working again!

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With NHL 2017-2018 season coming up and I had some extra spare time I thought why not finally fix this great website again :)

As NHL changed the layout of their schedule page about two seasons ago – there’s these days “infinite scrolling” or whatever it’s called when the page only loads what you see on the screen. This means it’s a bit difficult to scrape the page (but not impossible).

Lately I’ve been using REST API and JSON data for quite many things – after a short search I managed to find this hidden gem: https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1/schedule?startDate=2016-01-31&endDate=2016-02-05&expand=schedule.teams,schedule.linescore,schedule.broadcasts,schedule.ticket,schedule.game.content.media.epg&leaderCategories=&site=en_nhl&teamId=

Now that’s a link to an API provided by NHL where you get the schedule and you can filter it. I’m not sure what all the parameters do, they’re not all needed. You just need the startDate and endDate. The API also has standings and results. I have not managed to find any documentation for it. Best so far seems to be this blog post. So I’m not sure about if it’s OK to use it or if there are any restrictions.

p.s. – there is a shorter URL to the main page: https://rix.fi/nhl – but the commands – like https://wasthereannhlgamelastnight.appspot.com/MTL – does not work.

Was there an NHL game last night?

Finnish words from ankidroid

Lately I’ve been using ankidroid to study Finnish – or at least to expand my vocabulary a bit. I think it’s great but it won’t work by itself and requires quite a bit of tenacity.

The good Finnish deck:https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1918695216 it’s called “Finnish järjestyksessä”.

It’s made by Rendall and it’s quite good, it took a list of the most common Finnish words (assembled by my company ;)

The deck won’t work by itself though, I get a lot of help by:

Get the word in a sentence helps tremendously for learning it. Just learning the words helps a lot, especially if you don’t care so much about using the exact right form. Learning how to use them is also important, and that’s where talking or reading things help.
Asking someone for assistance or clarifications about words is important. For example you might have words that are translated to the same word in English but you’d use them differently in Finnish.

Some notes about the contents:

Some translations are not awesome or the first word that shows up is the archaic meaning. So for those you’d want to click the edit card and change the meaning to something modern.
Some erisnimi words are just fairly useless unless you want to learn a city /person name, like NATO, Salo, Joensuu, Jorma or Jukka. They might have a different meaning besides the city name but they’re rarely/never used for that meaning.

Making changes to the template:

On each card there is this “info” and sometimes hints. I found myself wanting to change the URL to wiktionary on the cards because google chrome didn’t redirect wiktionary.org to en.wiktionary org but to www.m.wiktionary.org which doesn’t exist. It’s quite easy to change this, because that part is done with a template and is not added in each card. To change:

synch your decks
install anki on your compute
login with your account and synch it
browse the deck and on the right-hand side you’ll see your decks and the ones you have marked and so on, there’s also a few called “adjektiivi”, “prononimit” and so on. These are the templates.
Click on a template and then on the “Cards…” button.
This will show “Card 1” and “Card 2”. In the back template you can then change the URL to whatever you want!

Meta Post: Blog is now also mobile friendly!

Update! If you view this blog on an a mobile device with the right user agent (and apparently very few of you do that) there’s now very little white space wasted! It’s not perfect yet but I’m working on it making it nicer. It seems to have some

Now about the normal Hemingway Ex theme, I like it. But there’s a lot of unused white areas when on 1920×1080 (17% of visitors – also the one I use ;)

So I tweaked the stylesheets to make some sections thinner and some wider. Don’t like it? Please let me know in the comment section below.

P.s. Developer Tools in web browser are full of awesome! Trying to find the right CSS section to edit would have been mental without it.
P.s2. Just to be clear, the Blog was not hostile towards mobile users before.

Merry Christmas Readers

Merry Christmas!

Thanks for stopping by so often!

The most visited articles last 2 months are:

Brocade SAN Switch Firmware Upgrades

OK, that’s the biggest one by a magnitude and the article I have surely spent most time on to keep up to date over the years :)

Here’s the shared second places :)

Post Frisco

Bicycle up to and over a fog covered Golden Gate bridge, pretty awesome downhills!
Eaten at a relative’s french gourmet food (not expensive!) – it’s name is: sous beurre. It is up on 24th mission street together with a cafe called sugarlump.
Went to great coffee place called: Sightglass Coffee. Real, good coffee with flavour.
Also went for breakfast at an awesome American breakfast by Chinese folks. Don’t think I’ll find it again though :) I may want to give it a try ;) It was Golden!
Lots of walking around the hills, no car chases yet though.
Many other conferences happen here, quite often it seems. For example Intel’s IDF which was over yesterday and saleforce’s cloud computing (next week).

Trip to San Francisco

Made it through flights and security checkpoints and buses and trains!

Next time I’m going on this long flight it woud be awesome to actually bring tooth paste and tooth brush in the hand luggage. Also possibly some own food in case the air plane food is not so awesome. And some water :) Besides that the hoodie, sleeping/eye covers, scarf and Kindle and head phones were enough.

Weather is way better here than in Helsinki :) Pretty cool to get to see Greenand from above with no clouds, also Yukun is pretty impressive. But the farmlands of USA are pretty cool too – so structured and organized.

So what’s a good way to get rid of jet lag? Tomorrow I’l see if a bike ride is it :)

The hostel I’m in is the same as in 2008 when I was here last time – although this time there’s way more folks hanging out in the “social room” – but all people do is play with their phones and tablest/computers.. maybe because it’s Sunday people chill out a bit more.

Exchanging Foreign Drivers License for a Finnish One

Today I applied to exchange my Swedish driver’s license for a Finnish one.

This is because after two years in Finland the foreign is not valid anymore.

Poliisi.fi is the main resource for information.

The Finnish page has a bit more information than both the Swedish and the English one.

Some tips:

The two photographs can be color and they should probably follow the passport restrictions (at least that’s what the link on the Finnish page indicates)
Bring your passport to the Police, not only the driver’s license.
On my account detailing that I’ve driven in Finland I just wrote when I’ve rented car in Finland, which rental companies I used and name/contact details/signature of two witnesses and me.
Gather some patience, Police told me today (August 2012) that it takes a long time, maybe 10 weeks or more. So if your license is about to expire, apply in time. You get to keep your drivers license until you go pick up the Finnish one.
They don’t tell you when it’s ready – you need to call or go to the station and ask..
The doctor’s certificate you can get from a public health station or from a private, most likely a lot less waiting with a private one.

Finnish Sentences – Kaivopuistu

Disclaimer: I am still studying Finnish and not so good :)

The posts that I’m trying to write here are just a way for me to practice writing Finnish.

—

Kaivopuisto on iso, vihreä ja meri vieressä. Sisällä ovat puut ja kukat.

Kaivopuisto is big, green and next to the sea. Inside are trees and flowers.

— Turned out this sentence was not the best finnish :) Puistossa and partitivi might be better to use!

My broken amazon kindle :(

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During the weekend the screen on my amazon kindle 6″ decided to go partially broken.It happened while it was in my backpack inside a ‘leather cover’ that I also got from amazon at the time of purchase.

Usually with these electronic devices it’s that if the screen breaks you’re on your own / can try to get some help from home insurance. So my hopes were not so high when I sent an e-mail to amazon.

They however just asked me to start a chat or call them. I started a chat because I didn’t feel like calling a US number (although they had apparently some service that they’d call me back too), and got a very quick and efficient response. They just asked me to reboot the device (hold the release thing for 30 seconds).
They’re sending a new one and will let me send back the broken one in the same package and with a pre-paid shipment too!

Hope to get it soon, I feel nekkid without this e-book (or anything to read really), and of course it happened just when things were getting really excited in “A storm of Swords” (part of the “game of thrones” book series)!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas ya’ll!

Making food in our little apartment this year, avovaimon family is coming here.

Ham in the oven, potato and carrot box, janzon, lots of fun stuff :)

EMP

Do you print pictures or keep all of them online?
What about if you’ve written a lot of text on some obscure blog on the Intertubez.
What if something happens and you can’t retrieve it?

Maybe this is just because I just started reading a post-apocalypsian book where an EMP just got set off. And it’s making me a bit paranoid.

But I think I need to go print some pictures to ease my mind :)

Ranger – Linux CLI File Browser written by python

Here’s a great CLI file browser for Linux.
It also gives a preview of text files.
It’s called Ranger.
Do check it out.

Here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93025

This was also my introduction to ‘git’.
Quite easy :)

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/ranger.git

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty

Time for another ‘do-release-upgrade’!

This took away dwm-tools and suckless-tools (amonger other stuff). This means that META+p does not work anymore. So you cannot start any apps. Just install them again with ‘sudo apt-get install dwm’ and you’re good to go. Don’t even need to restart anything.

Found this cool command to check what release you’re on: lsb_release -d -s -c.

Maybe this only works on Ubuntu?

Install Scientific Linux 6 in VMWare Workstation

Time for some more Linux testing.

The reason for this is because I think I will go ahead and try to study for the RHCSA – Red Hat Certified System Administrator. Work might send me to a course in December, probably wise to play around with it before this.

So here we go.

Scientific Linux (SL) is a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Historically it’s been updated faster than CentOS. It’s same as Enterprise Linux (EL) – it’s re-compiled from source.

New VM, \SL-61-x86_64-2011-07-27-Install-DVD.iso, RHEL6 64-bit. 1 Core, 2G RAM, NAT, LSI Logic, New virtual disk, SCSI, 20G. Then boot the VM.

SL.org has this in pictures.

First thing you see is the Grub menu:

Install or Upgrade
Install with basic video driver
Rescue
Boot from local drive
Memtest (I like that memtest is pretty standard now)

Chose 1. Next screen is a graphical interface where you click and write, so you need keyboard/mouse. Next screen asks if you want local disks or external storage (fc, iSCSI, or zFCP – for system Z). Hostname: SL1.localdomain.

Create disks. Custom/full size. xfs/encryption/lvm cannot be used for boot volumes.

Role: Virtual Host (I want to try KVM). Enabling SL 6.1 and SL 6.1 Security Updates repositories.

Pinging to something on the Intertubes work from the start.

More posts coming with more fun stuff :)

Book Review – Stonewielder by Ian C. Esslemont

This is the third book in the Malazan world. The previous ones by Ian are Night of Knives and The Return of the Crimson Guard.

Beware, this post will/may contain spoilers.

I’m now roughly 41% through the book (reading it on my Kindle) and I must say that the writing style is fairly similar to the Stephen Erikson books. OK, there’s a bit of change in how the chapters are ordered with the books.

The plots centers around the continent of Fist (also called Korel).Supposedly they would all come together in the end as there aren’t any additional books planned after that would initially appear to be in the same series, but here’s where we might be mistaken. As this book is not directly after The Return of the Crimson Guard (supposedly a few year after, but not directly, there are some gaps). Some of the important characters are common between the books.

http://the-void.co.uk/book/interview-damn-contrarian-steven-erikson-conversation-094/ if you want to know what’s happening after the Malazan Empire, apparently there’s going to be books about the huge Toblakai Karsa Orlong!

Back to the Stonewielder. The Mael priest is now the Emperor and has managed to persuade some highly influential (and old) folks to join the cause to do something about the black stain on the Malazan empire: Korel. It appears that they’ve pretended to be Malaz but have in fact been running their own little empire. Not happy.

There’s also the famous Stormwall, which has been mentioned quite often previously in the books but not too much has been written about the setups and what happens there. I believe Traveller hung out there for a while but he escaped. One side-plot surrounds a few Crimson Guard survivors that are prisoners/defenders on the wall, there are also a few of the Crimson Guard that have been crossing an ice wasteland and later they all meet up for some nasty fighting. Good times.

Kyle with the “normal” name, (he was not a Malazan empire recruit) is quite funny. I mean a guy named Kyle kicking some ass just feels odd after dudes like Greymane, Paran, or Whiskeyjack.

I almost like this book more than the Steven Erikson books, but that I think is because they are different. There’s not as much poetry in them for one, but maybe also because the Crimson Guard are bad ass!

After this one I decided to give Erikson’s Crack Pot Trail a go, but this is one weird book. There is a narrator who is very present. At least in the beginning. This is one odd duck, but I suppose after so many books in normal ‘Malazan’ style this ought to be refreshing.

NHL12

Got this for ps3 from verkkokauppa.com when it was released (yay, shipping from Åland = no taxes = lots cheaper games). Great if you live in Finland :)

Anyway, the game is pretty awesome (I haven’t played it since NHL ’94) but there are quite a lot of bugs that cause the game to freeze. For example they have this one mode where you use cards as players. Each card can only be used so many times. You use this to make a team and play tournaments, online, singleplayer whatever. Quite often when I play single player tournament the game freezes (often it sounds like the opponent hit the bar so it’s almost/probably goal). This causes a deduction of -1 in the player contracts and probably other nasty things that I haven’t bothered to check. It’s quite annoying anyway.

– Real NHL is starting soon! Too bad Kronwall got injured in Detroit, but I hope he gets back. Bertuzzi looks like he’s just getting better, see this shootout goal: http://video.redwings.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=124735&catid=-6

Science-Fiction Books

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Been reading a bit, is nice to get to read something other than fibre channel :)

1.) The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison

If you like Douglas Adams this should work for you too.
It’s quite old books (first one is from ’61) but the language does not feel archaic (like James Bond books for example). Slippery Jim is quite devious and goes through evil plots like some folks go through t-shirts. The book has a quite high tempo but sometimes I couldn’t see the logic/reasoning behind what DiGriz was doing, but maybe that is justified because he is ‘smart’, arrogant and a con-man in a universe where there are supposed to be none.
There’s a few of the books, the first one was quite short and it did feel like an introduction without starting when the main character was born but with jumping straight into the action.

2.)

Second one I’m on now is one about a Doctor at the “Hospital to end all hospitals”. Gigantic one in space somewhere that could accomodate people/species/aliens/whatever from everywhere. The series is called Sector General. First one is ‘Hospital Station’ which contains 5 shorter stories. I’ve only read the first one so far and it contains a bit of drama, not very interesting main character, yet.

The book so far has focused on Dr Mara’s treatment/feeding (basically not killing it) of a baby which could seem quite boring but honestly the baby/species is described in such detail and I just want to know more. Also older books (’60s and ’70s).

20110919 Update: Just finished the 5 short stories that constitute Sector General. Altogether quite pleasing and interesting stories. Will definitely give more of these a go in the future!

Bicycling in Helsinki

Some things to remember:

Follow the rules of the road, like, stay on the right side :)
People tend to follow the rules and get confused if you start bicycling on the left side, there’s also some streets where the bicycle part of the road is one-way (like Boulevardi).
Don’t bicycle on walk ways. Old people get upset and the cops might stop you. Even though many of the streets in Helsinki downtown are made out of cobble stone making the bike ride somewhat amusement-parky.
Pay attention to your surrounding but pay more attention to where you’re bicycling so you don’t run into stuff or people.
True, the Finns are generally an honest people, but do lock your bike.

I'm on a bike yo