Yes, I wrote and published a book! It's about Open Source ideology and business models, finally ending in non-computing themes such as Creative Commons et al.

Finally, after a lot of work, here it is in English too. I promise not to write another book anytime soon!

In June 2002 a Finnish Member of Parliament, Kyösti Karjula, introduced a bill to increase the adoption of Linux in the Finnish government. On a whim I decided to write him a short email to congratulate him on such an effort. Then I added that while a symbolic gesture such as this bill is of course well appreciated, there are other more serious legislative issues going on that could do well with a Linux-friendly spokesperson.

To my great surprise he replied to my email, so some weeks later I wrote this comment on the Finnish implementation of the EUCD.

(Note that the current proposal from the government has already changed from last summer when I wrote this, so some minor details are no longer applicable.)

UPDATE: The proposal was actually rejected by the parliament, much to my surprise. This was much due to great work on the part of EFFi. I doubt Mr Karjula ever read this, and even if he did, to my knowledge he was not involved with the proposal in any way. (The writing was however quoted in at least two discussion groups on the net, so it was not a complete waste of time.)

Thank you to Timo Kiviniemi for such a nice layout. All the essays written for this seminar were also published together in a seminar paper "Loruja" (Helsinki University of Technology, Systems Analysis Laboratory Research Reports, B22, April 2002). The publication is also available on the web.

An essay about wine, EU, agriculture and Open Source.

A short story from the bedroom. This essay was published in: "Cameo - filosofin elämää", (Sebastian Slotte & Sevi Siljola, WSOY, Helsinki, 2003)

What is the probability of "he meets her"?

Värikäs seminaariraportti 2004 Pafoksella järjestetystä Tulenkantajat seminaarista.

"The Post-Enron world with it's tough requirements on reliable financial reports has left US accountants and CEOs without choice. They will now have to tell us the truth and nothing but the truth about their companies financial status. Or do they?" A story about pictures that lie...

My Master's Thesis
A study on the impact of using online quizzes for students learning.

Randomly pick a web-page with jokes, parse it and pick one joke, and quote it. In C of all languages, because back then I didn't know better.

In addition to making the actual videos, I also master and program the Media7 Web-page.

A school project

A simple, "store it in a file", web page statistics gatherer. Written in PHP.

Another school project, where we made a demo of an alternative, blind person friendly, user interface to the Helsinki public transportation system's "Reittiopas" web application.

An in-browser WYSIWYG HTML editor written in JavaScript.
Stretching the limits of JavaScript (and showing off!)

When I first started using email, I tought it was fun to make pictures like this.

In the summer 2001 we made this video as a contribution to a discussion on media criticism. Filming, directing and editing is by yours truly. Starring: Eliisa Hautakoski as "Pamela", Reima Honkasalo as "David Hasselhof" and Jani Virolainen as Igor.
You will need the DivX codec to play it.