Light Energy Drink

I felt a bit tired today so I decided to buy something with lots of caffeine. Since I do not like that coffee at all and even tea is bit boring, I decided to buy this energy drink. Since I'm bit worried about my weight I decided to buy a bottle of light energy drink.

What on earth is light energy drink! Isn't energy drink supposed to give you energy? Weird.

Btw. Our houses yard was re-covered with gravel on friday. The job was bit late, since the gravel pit where the gravel was supposed to be fetched was closed for the day! I really would hate to work at that gravel pit... open the pit every morning, close it again afternoon... That's lots of digging and filling. (I'm not really sure whether this story works as well in English as in Finnish but it is supposed to be funny).

FreeNX rules!

FreeNX, what a wonderful piece of software. This evil piece of code enables me to have a nice full connection to my office computer from home as would be using it form the office... It's pretty much like VNC, but this is faster (at least people claim it is, I've never tried VNC myself).

This FreeNX also relatively easy to install; both server (on Kubuntu 7.04) and client (on Windows). You can find nice instructions on how to install the server to Ubuntu from here. If I'm able to install it, anyone is. There was just one problem. I had to use older client (windows) than what you can find from nomachine.com. Older client can be found here.

Easy. Now I'm able to work at home like I would be at office in front of my computer (something I've tried to avoid as much as possible).

Oh, I added a nice screenshot of KDE desktop running on Windows.

PS. I had problems to get my keyboard to work with finnish layout. Then, finally, I found a way to fix this. In the file node.conf (on my Kubuntu this is in /etc/nxserver) you have to add this line:
AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS_X="-xkbdir /usr/share/X11/xkb"

(find first the AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS line, it is commented by default, and then change)

Why a blog?

This is my first ever blog entry. I'm not really sure why I decided to start this blog, but I do believe it has something to do with the fact that many of my colleagues in our research group have blogs.

I recently noticed in some paper/journal an article called "Why Do We Blog?". I thought that I should read it, since I really do not understand why we do blog? Unfortunately, I don't remember any more in which journal it was...

However, my now also part of the blogging community. It is interesting what you're able to do when you would have more important things to do as well.