Timo Laine’s Journal

Archives

This is a chronological archive of all the entries in the journal.

1. This is my journal, 25 December 2009
2. The Egyptian: do Finns love cynicism and graphic violence?, 27 December 2009
3. Machiavelli, blogs, and the freshness of information, 28 December 2009
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, 3 January 2010
5. Tips on URI design, 7 January 2010
6. Politics and their relation to morals, 10 January 2010
7. How to choose a wine glass, 18 January 2010
8. Collaborative filtering: Ambjørnsen and LibraryThing, 24 January 2010
9. The load cycle count of Western Digital Caviar Green hard drives, 31 January 2010
10. Transferring music to Nokia 5530 XpressMusic on Ubuntu with Banshee, 5 February 2010
11. The next version of Ubuntu shows great promise, 10 February 2010
12. How to stop procrastinating on the web with Firefox and LeechBlock, 22 February 2010
13. How to say it while not saying it: Machiavelli and the Medici, 8 March 2010
14. Thought experiments in Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser, 23 March 2010
15. Can ideologies fail?, 13 April 2010
16. Imaginary friends are better than real ones, 26 April 2010
17. Is ideology bad?, 4 May 2010
18. Is natural better?, 16 May 2010
19. The value of passion, 31 May 2010
20. For readers of Niccolò Machiavelli, two new online treasures, 5 June 2010
21. Robert Nozick on failed ideologies, 19 June 2010
22. Robert Nozick on extremism, 28 June 2010
23. Merit and video replay technology in football, 12 July 2010
24. Unnatural complexity of flavor, 13 September 2010
25. Photography, technology and manipulation, 10 November 2010
26. Niccolò Machiavelli and the problem of fortune, 10 December 2010
27. Machiavelli and the Stoicity of his fortune, 15 January 2011
28. Machiavelli on consistency, 7 April 2011
29. In politics, sometimes it is better to be hated, 23 April 2011
30. The selfishness of selfishnesses, 22 July 2011
31. The happy prince, 22 November 2011