Category: General
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Podcast: Chatting about WordCamp Helsinki
I was a guest on the 7th episode of the only Finnish-language WordPress podcast around, Se Alkuperäinen WordPress Podcast . We chatted about attending WordCamps, organizing WordCamps and the upcoming WordCamp Helsinki in particular. This year I’m not on the organising team but I’ll be giving a lightning talk on the WordPress Customizer. https://sawp.fi/jakso-7/
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Good For The EU, But
Some very sad conclusions regarding Brexit by analysts working for Algebris Investments on the World Economic Forum website. Brexit is a symptom of Britain’s deeply rooted economic imbalances: a growth model too concentrated on finance and services and dependent on foreign goods, human and financial capital; record-high social and wealth inequality; a lack of investment…
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R.I.P. Leonard Cohen
And even though It all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah Leonard Cohen, 1934–2016
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Sad to see you go
Almost all the votes are in at it’s clear the UK has voted to leave the EU. I feel sad, mainly because the reasons given for Brexit were almost all about fear and lies. I sincerely hope though that the UK and EU together can figure out a deal that makes sense for both parties,…
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Remain
Today I’m traveling to the fourth WordCamp Europe, organised this year in Vienna. It will probably be the largest WordCamp, i.e. community-organized WordPress conference ever. My thoughts however are very much in Britain, where my relatives and millions of their countrymen and -women will be voting today on whether the UK should leave the EU…
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Cultural differences
Yesterday we bought a tray for our baby’s high chair. It came with a small instructions leaflet with the same text in multiple languages. They all seem to have more or less the same information content, but there were some differences. Here is the beginning of the text in each language. UK Congratulations on your…
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Downtown canoeing, part 2
This weekend my wife and I took a kayaking course at the Varala Sports Institute here in Tampere (Varalan urheiluopisto). The highlight of the course was definitely paddling into the center of town for a cup of coffee on Saturday morning. We couldn’t have asked for better weather!
Daniel Koskinen 