Lands of contrasts

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Here is the map.

 Middle-east map

Iran is surrounded by several countries. Turkey, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and across the golf, Saudi, the Emirates and a few other tiny ones.

how to speed up social network badge loading

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I have had some problem with my Tripit badge on the left of the screen. For some strange reason it wouldn’t load on my Google Chrome. It would load if I would open this page with Firefox or IE though. The weirdest thing is that after loading it from Firefox or IE, I could then load it with Chrome. 

So I decided I would take a different approach and cache the badge somewhere.

Here is how to do it:

First get the URL of the javascript file of your badge.

Here is the code of my badge:

My favorite android apps

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Touch Calendar: widget that lets you see 6 weeks of events on google calendar
TuneIn Radio Pro: very good online radio player
Wunderlist: to do list
Tripit: traveler helper
Trapster: drive safely by knowing in advance where are the traps and accidents or road works ahead.

New ADM3 FM module

Reading Time: < 1 minute This summer I finished a partial rewrite of the FM (Fault Management) module of the NetAct OSS ADM3 Troubleshooting class.
I have been compiling lots of troubleshooting guides and troubleshooting techniques into this course and applied it to all the FM processes of a regional cluster.

It has now been tried several times and it seems people are liking it.
If you want to follow this course, contact your local NSN solution manager or go to the academy website if you’re an NSN internal and enroll for the course OS9033 (customers) or OS9034 (internals)

TeleFinland HTC Magic Data Settings

Reading Time: < 1 minute  Easy as a breeze:
APN Name: TeleFinland
APN: internet
MMS protocol: Wap 2.0
MCC: 244
MNC: 91
APN type: default

All the rest, don’t touch.

Nexus one power button not working

Reading Time: < 1 minute My Nexus one has been a good friend for the past year but now I am running into problems with the power button.
I had 2 options:
– open heart surgery, order the replacement unit and change it myself.
– flash the phone in order to remap the power button to the trackball.

I chose the second option as it was available to me right now.
I followed this guide:
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/nexus-one

Erika is born

Reading Time: < 1 minute Erika, my first child is born. I feel that she is going to be my new hobby…


Pulled pork

Reading Time: 2 minutes Today I made my own pulled pork.
First time in Finland, it worked pretty well.

1.5kg piece of Butt found at Prisma. about 10 euros.
Some pork rub I brought back from Texas, but you ncan do your own with some local products and some spices.
I rubbed the pork with the pork rub. Put it in a plate, a bit of bbq sauce on and around.
6 hours in the oven at 120C.
Then I left it for about an hour cooling down.
Took it out, used to forks and pulled the pork!
Once this is done, I put some bbq sauce on it and mixed the whole stuff.

In the news

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Today I am in the news of the world:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/21/sports/main20109498.shtml

And in the French news.

See attachment.

Reset the default drupal theme with SQL

Reading Time: < 1 minute Sometimes a drupal theme can be broken and it can be needed to reset the default theme so the site can be accessed again in order to fix the problem.

As a rule of thumb I always try to use the theme "Cube" for the administrive part of drupal. that makes things a lot easier and if you breeak the theme you can at least still use the admin part.

Here is anyhow how to reset the theme using SQL:

Simply execute the three following commands:

UPDATE system SET status=1 WHERE name = 'garland';