Thomas Nybergh’s pages

According to its page on Youtube, the following video featuring a shrimp running on a treadmill is a bit old. Luckily, the included WTF value is still quite intact, at least for someone like me who doesn’t have a career in crustacean athletics. (Flash video from youtube.com embedded below)

There’s also a version with the Benny [...]

I generally find music videos with bands miming songs to be depressing nonsense. An exception to this rule is made by The Get Out Clause, an unsigned Manchester band with their video for a song titled “Paper” (link to higher quality Youtube video).
By cleverly taking advantage of The United Kingdom’s groundbreaking pioneer work in making [...]

Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger instant messaging network (formerly MSN Messenger) is currently blocking messages with urls that contain *.youtube.com. Tietokone, a Finnish IT publication reports that this applies to messages with links to *.mediafire.com, too.
WTF, how did the people running Windows Live even come up with such a lousy idea? I’m guessing the explanation, if [...]

As announced yesterday, a new Nine Inch Nails single titled “Discipline” is available as a free, decent quality VBR mp3 download. The song itself is a nice and catchy thing.
In addition to the obvious artist and track title tags, the file contains the following additional id3 metadata tags:
Album: ?
Comment: Go to www.nin.com May 5

The [...]

A recent decision by a court in Salo (link target is in Finnish), which implies that it’s illegal to use open Wi-Fi-networks without permission, is yet another fine example of the asshattery and uninformed lack of reasoning that automatically appears when anything related to information technology is on the agenda in today’s society under its [...]

While browsing a list of personalized feed recommendations in Google Reader, I found an RSS feed which on a daily basis defines and links to Wiktionary’s “English Word of the Day” feature. In my mind, this is a convenient way to learn about the existence words not often used in basic day-to-day English.
As [...]

Eilen keskusteltiin mediassa Danske Bankin omistukseen siirtyneen Sampo Pankin uuden verkkosivuston ja pankkijärjestelmän toimimattomuudesta ja mahdollisesta turvattomuudesta.
Tietokone-lehden blogissa ja sen kommentialueesta löytyy kiinnostavia mielipiteitä ja uutta tietoa aiheesta. Suomen perustuslain vastaisen sensuurijärjestelmän kriitikkona tunnetun Matti Nikin eli muzzyn mielestä Sampo Pankin verkkopankki-istunnoissa käytetty Java-crapletti ei ole asiallinen, eikä välttämättä kovin turvallinen ratkaisu, ja näennäistietoturva käytetään [...]

Reading lists of new .fi domains granted by Ficora is a terrible waste of time for persons whose psyches don’t sort the notion of monitoring Finnish Internet businesses into some internal “fun” folder. I happen to enjoy following stuff like this, which is why this RSS feed with daily updates on new .fi domain registrations [...]

Late last month, the Debian GNU/Linux project announced that security patch support for the old stable release, 3.1 (codename Sarge), will end on the last day of March. Many people will be using servers, integrated and other special systems with Sarge for a long time to come, without applying any patches, and I’m afraid I’ll [...]

A few hours ago Nine Inch Nails, the main artistic project of Trent Reznor, released a new album titled “Ghosts I-IV” under a Creative Commons license (source) that allows non-commercial copying and derivative works. A part of the album is available as a free download on nin.com and the band has themselves distributed the package [...]