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  <title>Archyx's journal</title>
  <subtitle>random bytes waiting to get to the binary space</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>Archyx Shapetail</name>
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  <updated>2006-10-22T19:52:36Z</updated>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:archyx:35026</id>
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    <title>tAAt</title>
    <published>2006-10-22T19:52:36Z</published>
    <updated>2006-10-22T19:52:36Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Purple Motion - Fracture in space</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;So, August and September just flew by and we're already near the end of October. During my time not updating LJ I've been in several furmeets, working, consuming lots of coffee and even more Jolt, poked around &lt;a href="http://www.furaffinity.net/"&gt;Fur Affinity&lt;/a&gt; and been lazy as hell...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sure, I have more work to do next week. Then there's a furmeet next month... Almost right after my human incarnation reaches the age of 23 years. But that's not important. There are a lot of more important things... Things that aren't important to anybody else.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;tAAt&lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/audio/ar_56.it"&gt;.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:archyx:34606</id>
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    <title>Three weeks in a nutshell</title>
    <published>2006-07-26T19:32:46Z</published>
    <updated>2006-07-26T19:32:46Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Vogue - Dreams of Deez</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;There was a furmeet here last weekend, &lt;a href="http://www.sofawolf.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=58"&gt;Fur-Piled Volume One&lt;/a&gt; came through my mail slot on Monday, I got a few toys from Zeta Creations last week, were at another meet in Salo the weekend before, and the weekend before that I was at a largish furmeet held in Kuopio. Oh, yes, that meeting required driving about 900&amp;nbsp;km within three days.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And that's pretty much all I have to say about the last three weeks. See you next month.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Autosaved draft at 3:00:57 PM</title>
    <published>2006-06-18T12:03:19Z</published>
    <updated>2006-06-18T12:03:19Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Ozric Tentacles - Become the Other</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;OK, let's have a little look at what &lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_deuz' lj:user='deuz' style='white-space: nowrap; text-decoration: line-through;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://deuz.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://deuz.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;deuz&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://deuz.livejournal.com/70989.html"&gt;invented&lt;/a&gt; a while ago:&lt;p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Name your ten (or any number) favorite song titles (or songs that you happen to like at the moment).&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Make other people guess/know who is the artist. If more than one artist have a song with the same name, the one originally chosen stands.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Having multiple titles of the same artist is acceptable but not encouraged.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Unless you feel lazy, post this same thing on your own LJ.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Whoever knows the most will recieve a gift of my choice. Whether it's just an abstract gift or materialistic, it's up to the poster of the meme.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I think I can make a little list then...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Saatteeksi&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Haikea juoppo&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Singing Winds, Crying Beasts&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Smoked Glass and Chrome&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Kolmen tavun karaoke&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Chevrolet&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Hey You&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Sekoilu seestyy - The Madness Subsides&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Plurnstyle&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;No More Terra Firma&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Many of these are probably too easy to Google but there are enough hard ones, too...&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Lost Without a Trace</title>
    <published>2006-06-04T19:12:38Z</published>
    <updated>2006-06-04T19:12:38Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Wigwam - Lost Without a Trace</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I can't say I didn't like &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/wigwam.jpg"&gt;Wigwam&lt;/a&gt;'s performance about an hour ago at Käpylän kyläjuhlat, I can say that I loved almost every second of it. Jim Pembroke (vocals, piano), Mats Huldén (bass), Pekka "Rekku" Rechdardt (guitar), Esa Kotilainen (keyboards), Jari Kettunen (drums). And Rekku just doesn't seem to get old at all...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At least one of the tunes they played was from one of Jim's solo releases, Corporal Cauliflowers Mental Function. But here's the list (or what I could make of it):&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Friend From the Fields&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;(n/a)&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Simple Human Kindness (Nuclear Nightclub, 1975)&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;(n/a)&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;(n/a)&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Bless Your Lucky Stars (Nuclear Nightclub)&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Lost Without a Trace (Fairyport, 1971) [I love this song...]&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Colossus (Lucky Golden Stars and Starpose, 1976)&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Sandpainting (Some Several Moons, 2005) [recognized the album the tune is on, then the track at home by the guitar riff]&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Bertha Come Back (Jim Pembroke: Corporal Cauliflowers Mental Function, 1977)&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Absalom (Light Ages, 1993)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After playing Absalom they went off the stage. Half the people dispersed elsewhere and a few moments later the band came back onto the stage and Jim said "Soitan vielä yhen, joo." ("I'll play one more, yeah.") and then they played Do or Die (Nuclear Nightclub). This time Rekku went quite a lot off the scale with his enthusiasm... I don't think I can recognize those three (n/a)s by memory because I didn't write down any fragments of the lyrics.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But one bad thing is still my fault. I forgot to take my trusty ol' Canon AL-1 with me. That camera would have saved me from taking one crappy photo of the group... I could have taken several high quality photos with the 70-210&amp;nbsp;mm lens, even from the distance where I was... But it's past now and I just have to live with it.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>No New Games</title>
    <published>2006-06-04T12:46:32Z</published>
    <updated>2006-06-04T12:46:32Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Wigwam - No Pens, ei karsinoita</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I really don't have much to say... Except that Wigwam's playing at Käpylän kyläjuhlat today at 19:30. Yes, I'm going there to listen to them...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Other news and olds include having trouble finding a suitable and working backup keyboard (you know, the kind that don't have all that redundant multimedia integrated into them), not being able to figure out how Psyclapse's Menace is copy protected (yes, I'm trying to create a backup of it with the copy protection included and I already know that one part of the copy protection sits at the upper side of cylinder 79), and sometimes working over 12 hours a day.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now I just need to figure out how to waste about three hours...&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Statistics?</title>
    <published>2006-04-20T19:50:11Z</published>
    <updated>2006-04-20T19:50:11Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Pekka Pohjola: Harakka Bialoipokku - Ensimmäinen aamu</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I've been working the past week. I had to replace the right front wheel bearing of the Taxi on Monday. My guess is that it locked up breafly and broke partially while driving to Kuopio a bit over a week before. Within a week the metal chips inside the bearing housing must have devastated the rest of the smaller outer bearing. Of course, to which the result was quite a lot of play that makes the front axle geometry a tad bit too loose.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The last weekend was fun, "wasted" at &lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_slvwolf' lj:user='slvwolf' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://slvwolf.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://slvwolf.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;slvwolf&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s. It was the first furmeet I went to by foot ie. the trip was less than ~5&amp;nbsp;km. The weekend before Slv's little meeting was spent in Kuopio at a housewarming party.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I bought two Pekka Pohjola's albums this week, Pihkasilmä kaarnakorva (Resineye Barkear) and Harakka Bialoipokku (B. the Magpie). I also bought a &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sus.jpg"&gt;wolf plush toy&lt;/a&gt; and last weekend I bought my second &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/zippowoofhowl.jpg"&gt;wolf Zippo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have some beers to drink...&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>I feel dead</title>
    <published>2006-03-30T20:05:20Z</published>
    <updated>2006-03-30T20:05:20Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I just measured my body temperature. 38,9 °C. I feel pretty uncomfortably numb. I can see just fine but my sense of touch, smell and hearing have degraded somewhat. I also had some balance problems while wearing ear protection during work. I need sleep.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Olen selkä</title>
    <published>2006-03-20T20:08:59Z</published>
    <updated>2006-03-20T20:08:59Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Ott - Splitting an Atom</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;OK, I'll tell you something about my little vacation...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I flew to Geneva on Saturday March 11th and from there traveled by bus to &lt;a href="http://www.meribel.net/welcome-h.htm"&gt;Méribel&lt;/a&gt;. The next day was spent renting skis (it's cheaper to rent the skis than take your own skis there and back), fetching the skipasses, and skiing. I can safely say, that 700&amp;nbsp;EUR of cash might just be enough to live the week if you wish to eat warm food and drink something other than water. 0,5&amp;nbsp;l glass of beer can cost anything between 5,50&amp;nbsp;EUR and 8,00&amp;nbsp;EUR. That really makes the beer prices at Geneva airport cheap.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The week generally consisted of waking up at 07:00, eating breakfast between 07:30 and 09:00, skiing, having a little break before noon, skiing, eating lunch before 13:00, skiing, afterski after 15:30, eating dinner at 19:00, possibly going to a bar to listen to live music and then going to sleep. The room at Le Roc was more like three closets separated with doors.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But something just didn't fit into the fact that Méribel is in France... The hotel and &lt;a href="http://www.lataverne-meribel.com/"&gt;La Taverne&lt;/a&gt;'s bar downstairs from the hotel had british staff. So did &lt;a href="http://www.mountaintradingco.com/"&gt;Doron Pub&lt;/a&gt; on the other side of the road and &lt;a href="http://www.meribelbarometer.com/"&gt;Barometer&lt;/a&gt; a bit further down the road to the main ski lifts of Méribel. If you still walked further from Barometer to Fifty 50, the british bartender actually talked a few words of Finnish. Nothing bad with that, they had Kilkenny and Guinness on the tap as well as Murphy's in La Taverne and Doron Pub.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I came back to Finland last Saturday. Or Sunday, actually, since the plane was 40 minutes late. And Räikkönen was pushed off the track and Nico's engine blew... I even found &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/pannunalunen.jpg"&gt;something&lt;/a&gt; to bring back home from Méribel.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Oh well... That's enough for now. I'll go have a shower and then go to sleep.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>archyx @ 2006-03-11T11:08:00</title>
    <published>2006-03-11T09:08:30Z</published>
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    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I'm going to spend a week without teh Intttterrrnets. And that's because I'll be leaving to Meribel today. Downhill-skiing for a week... Yes, you get to be without me for a whole week. Isn't that great? I'm sure it is. Bye!&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Ott: Blumenkraft</title>
    <published>2006-03-07T21:54:06Z</published>
    <updated>2006-03-07T21:54:06Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Ott - Splitting an Atom</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Damn, I love this... I ordered the CD from &lt;a href="http://www.psyshop.com/"&gt;psyshop.com&lt;/a&gt; on Thursday and got it into my hands today.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The reason to buy the album was the second track, &lt;em&gt;Somersettler&lt;/em&gt;. The first time I ever heard the tune was while listening to the ISP's own Shoutcast radio that broadcasts ambient. I even streamripped the song and cropped it into an MP3 of its own. Now the slightly incomplete MP3 can be deleted because I have the real thing. And it's not just the second track, the whole album was definitely worth buying.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Darn... I have to get my MP3/WMA/CD-player from my mom's car and install it into the Taxi so that I can listen to this masterpiece while driving. :P&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Tag!</title>
    <published>2006-02-01T23:47:20Z</published>
    <updated>2006-02-01T23:47:20Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Fleetwood Mac - Big Love (Live, 1997)</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Mom called me this (well, actually yesterday) morning right after she left and told me that there's a computer and a printer in the garbage room. Well, I took my own garbage bag and went there to check out the 'puter. The printer was an ancient Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 510 with a crappy parallel cable. The printer was otherwise worthless but I took its PSU since it fits my DeskJet 520.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But the computer... That was something I thought I'd never own. A single Pentium II 450&amp;nbsp;MHz processor on some double-processor motherboard by Asus, some Adaptec SCSI controller on-board, an 8.5&amp;nbsp;GB Seagate SCSI(!) hard drive, and a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP video board. This will definitely be my next Wintööt desktop machine. I'll try to get the SCSI image scanner to use the on-board Adaptec controller. It might be a little faster with a real controller instead of the IRQ-less ISA-crap I've used so far... It just needs a wee bit memory upgrade. 64&amp;nbsp;MB really isn't enough. Even this machine I'm using right now has 192&amp;nbsp;MB.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And then some other crap:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_hukkax' lj:user='hukkax' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://hukkax.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://hukkax.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;hukkax&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; tagged me to do this thing, so here goes:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;***Basic Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yours" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 quirky habits as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.***&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;I wear thongs as daily underwear instead of briefs or boxers. The latter two are uncomfortable for me to wear.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;I often think aloud when alone.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;When I'm drunk, I actually do have a limit for the drinking and have a break (without Kit Kat) when I feel drunk enough.&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;I have an obsession to use old stuff instead of the new if they still work with required accuracy and realiability. (Well, some old things are a lot more reliable than their newer versions, like Daimler-Benz engines M102 vs. M111...)&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;I have a tendency to mock those who I like. (But do tell me if it bothers you.)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I hereby tag (void), (void), (void), (void) and (void) to post their five weird habits for the online world to see.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;return 0;  // time to go to sleep&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>*yawn* Global Journey *yawn*</title>
    <published>2006-01-29T19:54:50Z</published>
    <updated>2006-01-29T19:54:50Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Lazy Bones Jones - Haikea juoppo</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;OK, I just listened to the most boring 59 minutes I've ever heard, Neil Harvey's "Wolf Spirit" (released by &lt;a href="http://www.global-journey.com/"&gt;Glogal Journey&lt;/a&gt;). Let me quote some of the cover leaflet's text: &lt;em&gt;On the Nature and Music titles all the nature sounds are authentic field recordings captured on ultra-sensitive recording equipment.&lt;/em&gt; If this is true, then why are they ruined at the mixing stage and made to sound very artificial? The first impression I got was a friggin' wavetable synthesizer!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The second big mistake: All the songs sound almost the same. They are too much alike. Just put the CD player to play a random song and you can't identify it without looking at the tracklist. OK, maybe you can identify Dark Shadows (track #6) but most of the tunes just don't have enough variance and they do sound repetitive. Oh, and I almost forgot to add the fact that every damn tune starts and ends with "wavetable synth wolf howl". The album has eight tracks and that detail started getting on my nerves at the beginning of the third. It would make sense if the songs were mixed into one big track.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These instrumental tunes didn't have any kind of percussions either and they were stuck at static tempo and time signature. All the definitions of boring. If there isn't a beat, the tempo should be rather free. It would have helped a lot if the time signature was some other than the overused 4/4 ("four quarters"), too.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At least I'm listening to something better now...&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Power Supply Units</title>
    <published>2006-01-08T22:12:22Z</published>
    <updated>2006-01-08T22:12:22Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;So, I came home today, booted susi, ran PuTTY, logged in, attached to the screen session that has been running since the server was booted... "Temporary failure in name resolution" WTF? The error message wasn't new for me since irssi returns that when the net connection has died for some reason. But I didn't expect the whole cable modem to be dead.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Well, the next thing to do was some sniffing around... The scent of the PSU wasn't very promising. All it ever had offered were +5 VDC @ 1,75 A and +12 VDC @ 0,75 A. Well, the traditional Commodore Amiga 500 brick-PSU (I mean the heavy one) gives 2,5 A and 1,0 A. After disassembling the CyberSURFR's PSU and hunting a DIN5 connector I built the replacement, plugged it in, and... Hooray! It works!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If the A500 brick lasts until the October 31st, I won't be exchanging that original PSU at all. I did have something else to write here, too, but I've already forgotten all of it as usual.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
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    <title>Statistics</title>
    <published>2005-12-11T14:28:30Z</published>
    <updated>2005-12-11T14:28:30Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Absoluuttinen Nollapiste - Yli 1000 erilaista kasvia</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Just got a Mercedes-Benz W124's gauge combination reassembled (I bought the missing resistor yesterday), the Ruff's Stuff I ordered back in September should finally arrive next week, I've been working too late, ... &amp;lt;add the usual crap here&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Well, I'm still alive.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:archyx:31243</id>
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    <title>archyx @ 2005-11-14T22:48:00</title>
    <published>2005-11-14T20:49:04Z</published>
    <updated>2005-11-14T20:54:09Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Jukka Gustavson Organ Fusion Band - Between fire &amp; ice</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;It seems there ain't a reason for my life, it seems there ain't anyone who'd care about me as a person, it seems everyone just wants to nag at me, it seems... It seems everything would be better if I didn't exist.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Between Fire and Ice&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(from the album &lt;em&gt;Between Fire And Ice&lt;/em&gt; by Jukka Gustavson Organ Fusion Band)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm loosing my job, the trend is giving notice.
&lt;br&gt;I'm loosing my job, the conjuncture's paying me off.
&lt;br&gt;That's why I feel so oppressed, distressed, depressed,
&lt;br&gt;I'm loosing all my self-respect.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There's so much to say, but it won't help me anyway.
&lt;br&gt;There's so much to complain, but it just won't change anything.
&lt;br&gt;I just had to realize, there's no compromise,
&lt;br&gt;My life is life between fire and ice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I don't want to be a beggar, I don't want to be a bum.
&lt;br&gt;I don't want to be a villain, I don't want to be a scum.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I'm a son of an honest man
&lt;br&gt;I always want to do the best I can&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There's so much to say, but it won't help me anyway.
&lt;br&gt;There's so much to complain, but it just won't change anything.
&lt;br&gt;I just had to realize, there's no compromise,
&lt;br&gt;My life is life between fire and ice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I don't want to be a beggan, I don't want to be a bum.
&lt;br&gt;I don't want to be a villain, I don't want to be a scum.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The fact remains: Nobody needs you, nobody wants you
&lt;br&gt;After you're at the age of, let's say, fifty-two.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Music is my great love.
&lt;br&gt;A vocation - you might say.
&lt;br&gt;A gift from high above.
&lt;br&gt;My great passion and (my) glow.
&lt;br&gt;My labour of love.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;I just had to realize, there's no compromise,
&lt;br&gt;My life is between fire and ice.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Well... When I started writing this entry, I was plain depressed. Now I just don't have any kind of motivation to do anything. But at least I'm not depressed anymore. That's the power of twelve-bar blues.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Replacing a transistor</title>
    <published>2005-11-01T21:21:33Z</published>
    <updated>2005-11-01T21:21:33Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Radio Helsinki - 95,2 MHz</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Some of you readers might already know that my Sansui 771 tuner-amp doesn't quite function the way it should. The amplifier side does work perfectly but the tuner's +12 volt supply doesn't always stick to its preset value, instead it drops down to +6 volts or less. I traced the problem to a (2S)D330 transistor in a TO-220 package on the PSU board.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now, I'll disassemble the tuner-amp, take pictures on the way, and describe the procedure here.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The first thing to do here is to dig out the amp from the middle of the &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1353-the_stack.jpg" title="the audio stack (37 kB)"&gt;audio stack&lt;/a&gt;, the second is to &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1354-sans_cover.jpg" title="Sansui 771 w/out the top cover (48 kB)"&gt;get rid of the top cover&lt;/a&gt; which, by the way, is real wood.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now, that we see inside the unit, the hunt for the flaky transistor starts! The &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1355-pbu.jpg" title="the PBU (45 kB)"&gt;"power board unit"&lt;/a&gt; must be attacked first because that board is what supplies the bad +12&amp;nbsp;V line. From there we can locate the &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1356-pbu_2sd330e.jpg" title="the transistor (28 kB)"&gt;flaky 2SD330E&lt;/a&gt;. I was going to fit the &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1357-replacement.jpg" title="new 2SD330E w/ heatsink (11 kB)"&gt;replacement part with a heatsink&lt;/a&gt; on it but at this point it seem to be rather impossible.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Desoldering of the flaky component requires &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1358-sans_bottom.jpg" title="Bottom side w/out the cover (46 kB)"&gt;the bottom cover to be removed&lt;/a&gt;. Since the transistor has been desoldered before for identifying it between BD330 and 2SD330 (both can have only "D330" printed on the face of the component), locating the &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1359-solder_pads.jpg" title="if you can&amp;#39;t locate the three pads of the transistor, you must be blind (20 kB)"&gt;correct soldering pads&lt;/a&gt; isn't that hard at all.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1360-transistors.jpg" title="(14 kB)"&gt;The new and the old component&lt;/a&gt; look very similar. When testing with a multimeter they both seem to be NPN transistors but the increased and rather random voltage drop measured between base and collector/emitter of the old transistor was clear evidence of internal breakdown. Little &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1363-transistors.jpg" title="(14 kB)"&gt;bending of the leads&lt;/a&gt; makes the installation of the replacement component easier.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I decided not to solder the new component as deep among the others as the old one was. This makes installing the heatsink possible. Initial &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1366-12_volts_regulated.jpg" title="(14 kB)"&gt;testing&lt;/a&gt; without the heatsink proves that the regulator circuitry works with the new transistor. After &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1367-with_heatsink.jpg" title="2SD330E w/ the heatsink installed (14 kB)"&gt;installing the heatsink&lt;/a&gt; the output voltage became more stable and didn't fluctuate that much when warming up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/photos/sansui_fix/img_1368-95.2_mhz.jpg"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And it works...&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Bling!</title>
    <published>2005-10-16T12:53:07Z</published>
    <updated>2005-10-16T12:53:07Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Fleetwood Mac - Tusk</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Now, this isn't fun... Not fun at all. There's two idiotic mainstream&amp;trade; teens in the next room. Here's the question: Are they quiet? Sure they are! They're as quiet as those stupid over-grown kids can be! Why can't they just shut up? WHY?!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And no, I didn't finish complaining yet... My mom still does the same annoying thing. She sneaks into the room behind me when I'm listening to something with headphones. Maybe I should keep some yiff pics ready to show her and when she comes around I'd ask "Is this what you wanted to see?" Maybe she would someday learn to make her presense known before bouncing around...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since the last entry my life has been quite boring. Working, working some more, driving, working, driving, driving a little bit more, etc... A bit of change to all that was to drive a '91 Iveco 40-10 from Hyrylä to Kuorevesi.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The truck has been off the road over three years. All it needed was a working battery and some air into the tires. A little offer from the starter was enough to get the engine running. Not very believable but that engine just happens to be in a good condition. A little rusty, yes, but it works, including the turbo charger. The timing belt had to replaced before the long journey, though. It's been there over five years and anyone could have clearly seen that the old belt was breaking already. The trip itself wasn't hard at all. The only slightly bad thing was that the brakes felt like there was air in the ducts.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The next morning after the trip the engine started once and died instantly and didn't start anymore. The injection pump had gotten water instead of fuel and the second it pumped the water to the injectors, the needles didn't close anymore. The engine does run at 900 rpm when warm but most of the fuel that doesn't combust will go down the cylinder walls into the crank chamber. The injectors can still be repaired but it's not the number one priority since the truck is to be taken apart anyway.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;On Tuesday I'm goin to move back to "my apartment" from this evacuee apartment. This means that I have to pack all my stuff again for moving... And it also means that sloth will go offline for a few hours. But I'll start packing now.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Let's have some broken HTML!</title>
    <published>2005-08-29T19:45:15Z</published>
    <updated>2005-08-29T19:45:15Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Wigwam - Grass for Blades</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Just some stupid quizes again...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;table width="400" align="center" border="1" bordercolor="black" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#66CCFF" align="center"&gt;
&lt;font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" style="color:black; font-size: 14pt;"&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Your Inner European is Irish!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#FFFFFF"&gt;

&lt;center&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.quizdiva.net/bt/european/irish.jpg"&gt;
&lt;/center&gt;

&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;


Sprited and boisterous!

You drink everyone under the table.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;div align="center"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.blogthings.com/whosyourinnereuropeanquiz/"&gt;Who's Your Inner European?&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;hr&gt;
&lt;a name="cutid2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="20"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt; &lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Very Well-Rounded&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;You have:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;font size="5"&gt;62% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and&lt;br&gt; 62% EMOTIONAL INTUITION&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;table width="550"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="padding: 5px;" valign="top"&gt; The graph on the right represents your place in &lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;Intuition 2-Space&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. As you can see, you scored &lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;above average&lt;/font&gt; on emotional intuition&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&lt;font color="blue"&gt;above average&lt;/font&gt; on scientific intuition&lt;/i&gt;. (Weirdly, your emotional and scientific intuitions are equally strong.) &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="border: 1px solid black; max-width: 400px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://is0.okcupid.com/graphics/intuition/ig22.gif"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;br&gt;Your &lt;font size="+1"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Emotional Intuition&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
score is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their
unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates
social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you're good
at Quake.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Your &lt;b&gt;&lt;font size="+1"&gt;Scientific Intuition&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;
score tells you how in tune you are with the world around you; how well
you understand your physical and intellectual environment. People with
high scores here are apt to succeed in business and, of course, the
sciences.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;font face="verdana" size="1"&gt;
Try my other test!&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=17565214125862764376"&gt;The 3 Variable  Funny Test&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;It rules.
&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="20"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;span&gt;My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people &lt;i&gt;your age and gender&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="middle"&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="black" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#b2cfff" height="20" width="47"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://is3.okcupid.com/graphics/0.gif" alt="free online dating" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="white" width="103"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://is3.okcupid.com/graphics/0.gif" alt="free online dating" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle"&gt;You scored higher than &lt;b&gt;31%&lt;/b&gt; on &lt;b&gt;Scientific&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="middle"&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="black" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#b2cfff" height="20" width="56"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://is3.okcupid.com/graphics/0.gif" alt="free online dating" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="white" width="94"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://is3.okcupid.com/graphics/0.gif" alt="free online dating" border="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle"&gt;You scored higher than &lt;b&gt;37%&lt;/b&gt; on &lt;b&gt;Interpersonal&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="20"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=3890039532751104124"&gt;The 2-Variable Intuition Test&lt;/a&gt; written by &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=11694560292031626201"&gt;jason_bateman&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com"&gt;OkCupid Free Online Dating&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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  <entry>
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    <title>The last 1½ months...</title>
    <published>2005-07-21T18:31:47Z</published>
    <updated>2005-07-21T18:31:47Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Nutcase - Miles ahead</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;...have been quite shit.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Tuesday June 7th was just another day at work except that at around 18:40 I heard sounds of burning wood... &lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Oh, yes, the roof of the building was on fire. The roof was the only thing burning in the beginning but the corner where my dad worked burned only from the top. The lower structures were as if they only had collapsed. This is why a lot of my dad's stuff didn't burn at all. The next two weeks after the fire were spent salvaging all that was of use and discarding the rest. That job was pretty pure shit.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;An '87 316i BMW, two PCs, an exhaust gas analyser, a diagnostic memory reader, and two propane/butane gas tanks were saved before the firemen ordered everyone out of the building. A lot of useful and expensive car parts were destroyed in the fire. The parts can be replaced but I doubt anyone has copies of the old Daimler-Benz service microfilms... I actually had read one of them within two weeks before the fire.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I think I've driven almost 10,000&amp;nbsp;km during the past 1½ months. Mostly driving the salvaged less often needed parts to Kuorevesi. But life goes on. At least it tries to...&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>555</title>
    <published>2005-06-01T20:51:55Z</published>
    <updated>2005-06-01T20:54:19Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Juippi - Markalla hupaa</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I bought a swimming thong today. We'll see if I ever dare to wear it in public. But I just might get up early tomorrow and have a lazy morning swim before work.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I installed some fluorescent lights today at work. It seems all things electric have become a routine for me. &lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Once I figured out where I needed electricity and where I could take it from, I didn't have any trouble getting the cable out, connecting the leads (correctly, in correct order, and leaving enough loose wire for &lt;em&gt;the ground lead to be last that separates&lt;/em&gt; if someone decides to pull the cable out with a Caterpillar!), and fastening the cable so that it stays aside as much as possible at the same time reducing the possibility of insulation damage.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I also installed another airbag light hack into an Audi A4... &lt;a name="cutid2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The first one was an E36 BMW with the very simple airbag system (installed inside the steering wheel, there isn't any kind of external ECU or crash sensors) that doesn't even have any real diagnostic functions. After several attempts of reading the airbag fault codes we took the interior of the car apart and figured out that A4 didn't even have its airbag ECU present so it was pretty impossible to get the airbag system work. Not that the damn replacement ECU must be coded into the rest of the system to function at all...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At that point I fetched one of those electronic timers I've been building for these occasions. The timing device I used is a simple NE555 timer chip that drives a LED through a 390&amp;nbsp;ohm resistor or the base of a BD135 transistor (through about 1.4&amp;nbsp;kilo-ohms, provides an ampere through the transistor without serious heating) which in turn is used to drive the airbag malfunction indicator lamp.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Well, the guys that do those annual inspections of the cars don't take 'em apart and look whether it's a timer or a real ECU that turns the lamp on and off. It's an easy and cheap (max. ~2.5 EUR for the timer without a case) way around to get the stamp to the registration sheet with an inactive SRS but when a crash happens and the airbags don't deploy... That's when you can say bye-bye to the insurance. It doesn't cover anything if the Suppelemental Restraint System doesn't work.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Bah... Maybe I should go to sleep...&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>Here, foxy, foxy, foxy, ...</title>
    <published>2005-05-27T23:02:49Z</published>
    <updated>2005-05-27T23:02:49Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Heatbeat - orules</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;So, the foxy toy arrived yesterday. &lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Let's do a little math here... I ordered it on Friday 2005-03-25 (that's 63 days ago), two months of waiting... But it was worth the wait. Of course I had to test ride it as soon as I got back home and out of shower.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One rather interesting detail is that this individual I got seems to be a bit thicker than what the &lt;a href="http://www.zoofur.com/fox.html"&gt;specs&lt;/a&gt; say. Every measurement of thickness I made exceed the specs by ~1/4". Not that I'm complaining about it... But I just had to &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/images/photos/foxy/img_0007.jpg" title="size comparation on 7 mm graph paper"&gt;compare&lt;/a&gt; it with another dildo that measures closer to Kit Fox's shaft thickness specs.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The toy is now sitting on its suction cup base on the desk. And of course my warped mind developed the idea of making a fox cock joystick. It might be rather easy to do on a TAC-2 and at least &lt;strong&gt;I&lt;/strong&gt; would enjoy playing all those old games with it. I wonder if they would craft me a special version with a solid steel core with the 1/4" UNC thread or whatever they used to attach the black ball on the end of TAC-2's shaft...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What else has happened between my last entry and now? Working, some more working, a little me+&lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_jari' lj:user='jari' style='white-space: nowrap; text-decoration: line-through;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://jari.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://jari.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;jari&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;+&lt;span class='ljuser ljuser-name_hukkax' lj:user='hukkax' style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://hukkax.livejournal.com/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='http://hukkax.livejournal.com/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;hukkax&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;+kaemae meet in Pärnix, and a lot more workin. And I got an old 2.1 MPix Canon Digital IXUS camera. The battery charger was supposed to be busted but I didn't find anything wrong with the charger unit. It simply charged the battery and the camera functions very well. Well, the CF card slot's cover's other hinge is broken but the other is enough to hold it in place when closed. As a proof on functionality I took those pictures of the Kit Fox with that camera.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Damn, this tune is one of the definitions of funny.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:archyx:29629</id>
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    <title>Duh..</title>
    <published>2005-05-15T20:54:12Z</published>
    <updated>2005-05-15T21:00:11Z</updated>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;The last week was... Um... Well, I've forgot most that's happened. But I did replace the cylinder head gasket of a &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/images/photos/jurporiesa/"&gt;turbocharged Ford Sierra&lt;/a&gt;. That thing really had a terrible amount of redundant crap (lambda meter, fuel pressure gauge, ...) and a seriously smashed Weber as a carburetor. And the wiring... Well, most of us who know how it sohuld've been done would die at the instant seeing all the "spaghetti". Blah...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And I'll end this entry with some most likely broken HTML:&lt;/p&gt;

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  <entry>
    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:archyx:29329</id>
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    <title>Fuck the bootblock viruses</title>
    <published>2005-04-23T13:10:25Z</published>
    <updated>2005-04-23T16:07:31Z</updated>
    <lj:music>Necros - The Crossing</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Lamer Ext. 2, Lamer Ext. 4, Switch Off, ... Bootblock viruses, the shit that'll infect the machine at boot. I spent over three hours just getting rid of those productions of true Lamers. I took some &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/images/amiga/"&gt;screenshots&lt;/a&gt; (virusz-*.png) while working with the bootblocks. No, I don't just get those bootblock viruses, it was a box of "foreign" disks in question. I once acquired a Saddam infection on AmigaOS 1.3 and after cleaning up the disks I started to scan all incoming disks with Virus_Checker or VirusZ. At least the Saddam didn't seriously trash any disks that got infected.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I got the &lt;a href="http://archyx.ath.cx/temp/images/photos/silverwolfy.jpg"&gt;pendant&lt;/a&gt; and the chain yesterday. They came in a Jiffy padded bag. The delivery address had lost its postal code at some point of the electronic processing but thanks to the fact that there is only one Tursontie in Helsinki it didn't have any other choices of destination. Of course they had to do some extra work at the local logistics center...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I was just about to add that it's quite odd that my mom hasn't bugged me about what was in the bag... But she noticed the chain a moment ago when I went to the kitchen and of course she wanted to see it.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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  <entry>
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    <title>*beep*</title>
    <published>2005-04-16T21:19:04Z</published>
    <updated>2005-04-16T21:19:04Z</updated>
    <lj:music>David Whittaker - Quadralien</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I'm still alive. I've been working late this week... I don't even remember a day I came home before 20:00. I've also been designing an auto-resetting pulse counter for reading fault codes from some models of Mercedes-Benz around '90..'93. It's not needed for the short codes but the last existing codes used by the fuel injection system are something around 35 pulses which means it's possible to miss a blink and misread the code when reading with a plain switch-and-LED setup.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I've written five paragraphs of a work-in-progress story. I think it'll stay that way for a long while.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I ordered a pendant and a chain for it. That's probably because I've been working so much I haven't had any time to spend the money I've earned. (And I wouldn't mind having some nice jewelry to wear, anyway.) Not to mention having the 15 minutes to go to the damned bank to deposit all the extra cash I have collected into my wallet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I was supposed to find a place to go to study but since I'm not interested in studying anything at the moment, the possibility for enrollment kind of just slipped past me as if it never existed. Especially my mom nagging about trying to get to study somewhere just killed the last bit of my interest. If I'm going to study somewhere, her "help" is last thing I need.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I'd need a boyfriend, too...&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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    <title>*whirr*</title>
    <published>2005-03-24T23:53:56Z</published>
    <updated>2005-03-24T23:55:07Z</updated>
    <lj:music>180 Minuuttia @ 95,2 MHz / http://www.radiohelsinki.fi/</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Let's have a broken HTML day today!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="20"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt; &lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Assertive Sub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt; You scored 53 &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;
You are assertive, yet still maintain some level of submission. You
stand your ground firmly most of the time, and are fairly level. You
may not identify with being submissive or dominant, and it's possible
that you're a switch (someone who alternates between the two depending
on circumstances and/or mood). &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt;  &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="20"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;span&gt;My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people &lt;i&gt;your age and gender&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="middle"&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="black" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#b2cfff" height="20" width="45"&gt;&lt;img src="http://is3.okcupid.com/graphics/0.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="white" width="105"&gt;&lt;img src="http://is3.okcupid.com/graphics/0.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle"&gt;You scored higher than &lt;b&gt;30%&lt;/b&gt; on &lt;b&gt;domsub&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="20"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=18217996183708158422"&gt;The Are you Dominant or submissive Test&lt;/a&gt; written by &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=11704595632193238129"&gt;nahemah&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com"&gt;Ok Cupid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="20"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt; &lt;font size="5"&gt;&lt;b&gt;" The good fuck"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt; You are  61 fuckable! &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;
You're about as fuckable as most people, which is not bad. Actually,
it's quite healthy! You know how to act and what's appropriate. You
know when it's the time and place for what. And people can use that to
see you erotically. It's no surprise that you can attract a good number
of people. You're what they want! A realistic babe who knows when to
get a bit wild! Yeah, I'd fuck you! &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt; &lt;img src="http://is3.okcupid.com/mt_pics/160/16059182838139484263/7218933383172273370-2.gif"&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="20"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt; &lt;span&gt;My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people &lt;i&gt;your age and gender&lt;/i&gt;:&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="middle"&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="black" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#b2cfff" height="20" width="42"&gt;&lt;img src="http://is3.okcupid.com/graphics/0.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="white" width="108"&gt;&lt;img src="http://is3.okcupid.com/graphics/0.gif"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="middle"&gt;You scored higher than &lt;b&gt;28%&lt;/b&gt; on &lt;b&gt;humpers&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt; &lt;table cellpadding="20"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;Link: &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=7218933383172273370"&gt;The how fuckable are you? Test&lt;/a&gt; written by &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com/profile?tuid=16059182838139484263"&gt;ShizzleBitch&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://www.okcupid.com"&gt;Ok Cupid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;


&lt;p&gt;That's it. And, BTW, I ordered a Kit Fox today... Yes, Electron did the trick.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
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