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Symbian is releasing Ruby for Symbian OS to the Open Source software developer community.
More information about that can be found here.

Researchers of Carnegie Mellon University have managed to teach a computer to recognize and transform 2D images into 3D.

There’s a photographer who publishes a new photo which has been taken in Oulu every day: Oulu Daily Photo
(I have to use tinyurl.com to link to this blog because for some crazy reason WordPress returns an ‘500 Server Error’ if I use ‘blogsp*t.com’ in my text. Anybody has an idea what the hell is going on here? Update: It might be some mod_security related issue but I’m not sure yet how to solve it)

Sorry for not blogging since quite a long time but I’ve been pretty busy (and also a bit lazy) in the last couple of weeks. So, what happend in the 45 days since my last post?
To start off, we’ve been visiting Helsinki, Tallinn and Stockholm a few weeks ago. Photos are available here. We went to Helsinki by train where we stayed for 2 nights. Then we took a VikingLine ferry to Tallinn. I didn’t expect much from this city and also didn’t know very much about it. However, it was really awesome. Especially the old-town with its medieval buildings is definitely worth a visit. Also the nightlife and our charming little hostel (which has only 9 beds) were really nice. After two days we decided to visit Stockholm and booked a Tallink ferry (Tallink rocks because they offer free WiFi internet on their ships). Stockholm was also quite nice. Unfortunately, the weather was quite bad (rainy). We did some sightseeing by boat (which I can recommed if you’re too lazy to walk) and took a ferry back to Finland on the same evening.
When we arrived back in Oulu the landscape was covered with the first snow for this winter. In the following days it continued so snow and also got colder (about -10° to -15° C average during the day, minimum was about -23° C). However, it became quite warm again during the last days. The current temperature is -1° C.
What else happened? At university the 2nd period started which means that we got some new courses (and finished a few from the 1st period). In Finland the semester is divided into two periods. New courses for this period: Software Engineering, Body language and gestures, Business English (courses from the first period which are not finished yet: Systems Development, Programming of Web and Mobile Applications, User Interface Design, English for Engineers, International Marketing, Digital Image Processing, Symbian Programming).