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Change is coming…

Mikko — Fri, 06 May 2011 21:11:28 +0000

Hey there, how are you all doing?
What a fantastic year 2011 has been so far, don’t you agree!!! =)

As there has been some activity on the site as of late I thought I should make a small post so that all new and old visitors know I’m still alive and kicking. The fact is it’s been kind of hectic as of late so my poor little personal site has fallen inte dismay.
I am planning a redesign och all sorts of stuff to do and happen here, but we’ll have to see when I get the time. I really, really want to start sharing and writing about all the cool, fun and interesting things I find everyday!

Oh well, it’s really late and I’m tired, but now you know I’m still alive

You can catch me on twitter, and some other sites – check the contacts page!
And don’t forget the business page…

Later!

Selfpromotion ranting – featured as InterRails person of the month

Mikko — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:38:04 +0000

So this is not going to be any interesting article on some new stuff facebook or twitter or something else thats happened in the webdeveloping world.
No Sir! This is a plain and simple self promotion post on ME!! Because it is like this. A few weeks back I got a tweet from the guys at InterRail telling me about a new featured section they where starting up for the fan/person/interrailer of month and asked med if I wanted to be the first one. My first thought was WoW, that sounds amazing.

I was a bit surprised to be honest, sure I had been very active with them at the beginning of the year during the Mashable Awards voting [I voted for them like crazy - everyday]. But still, that they wanted me to be the first, of course I’d do it.

And so without further ado, here is your first InterRail Fan of the Month ….

Why I voted for them so much during Mash-Awards?? Well, the simple reason that they are one of the most active companies on Facebook and Twitter. They really try & do answer every question they get, and socialize with their fans, all the railers. So there really was no question who should win the “Best Social Media Customer Service”… =)

A year has passed and new things loom

Mikko — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:29:52 +0000

Wow, time really flies, right!
I moved here to Helsinki a year and a month ago, but feels like it was, well a little shorter than that. My Helsinki adventure started a bit slow, with work being hard to find. Actually in the beginning I did get some interviews but then it died of. Hade some freelance projects and the “dream” (read: will) of having my own company grew stronger and stronger.
I started looking into how to start one here in Finland, options, economic help, taxes and so on and so on. In the end of April I then finally filed the papers and May 1st was the start date of Divajn – Creative Studio. Got the papers back in the end May end from May 21:st or 22:nd the business was official and legit.

Business has been somewhat slow so far, mostly been working on my own projects, now owned by the company (?). And also it’s summertime so people are on vacation.
Have a few offers out which will be decided upon in the beginning of August, so cross your fingers…

With the changes that have happened and business that’s been started, this page will begin a slight transformation soon. It will change from my personal freelance portfolio site to just being my personal site, with some portfolio stuff. Hopefully, time accepting, more frequent posts and also on more topics than just web-development, I’d like to include more of my interest here too to tell you all about all the cool stuff.

So I welcome you all to divajns website at http://divajn.eu and all future work request and suggestions I prefer if you send them through there THANX!
And for this site, you can look forward to more interesting stuff in the near future.

Help Haiti and it's people

Mikko — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:23:58 +0000

As you all may know, a hug earthquake hit Haiti a few days ago and thousands of people have been killed or lost their homes. In wake of the catastrophe many idiots for people have started fake donation sites and services to cash in on the people in Haiti.

If you’d like to contribute and help please visit Yele.com, a grassroots movement started by my great favorites, Wyclef Jean to aid Haitians. Yele needs your help now more than ever, so click the link below and please help Haiti and it’s people!!!

IMPORTANT: mail problem caused lost messages from site

Mikko — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:46:47 +0000

Yes, well, I was away to Stockholm the past 2 days and off course I had problems with my mail and the contact-form on the site. All is fixed and good now, but if you did send me a message through the form Monday or Tuesday, there is unfortunately a big chance I did not receive it.

So I’m sorry if I didn’t answer you, but please do send me a new message and I will get back to you =)

Siis, olin Tukholmassa viimeiset 2 päivää ja tietenkin minulle tuli ongelmia e-postin ja contact-formin kanssa. Kaikki on ok ja toimii taas, mutta jos olet lähettänyt minulle postia lomakkeen kautta maanantaina tai tiistaina, on valitettavasti suuri mahdollisuus että en ole saanut sitä.

Joten olen pahoillani jos en vastaa sinulle, mutta lähetä minulle uusi viesti ja vastaan teille pian! =)

Fresh new website for the new year

Mikko — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:30:19 +0000

Aaaaaah, so I finally finished the new site, allthough not totally 100%. Still have some information to fill out about the different projects and jobs I’ve done.

But I’m really really happy with the new look. Even though I did like the old one, and tried to to make a new version of but then found other inspirations and so it is now a lot brighter and fresher !

Lauhakari.com v.1

The site now rests comfortably on WordPress, which I’m loving more and more to work with. Initially i was going to code the theme by myself from scratch, but while browsing for inspiration and tips I got stuck for a theme from Arcsin I really fell for. So, instead of re-inventing the wheel, I decided to modify the ‘simple-organisation‘-theme found on his site.

I’ll propably release my version of the theme to all you in due time, still have some tiny quirks I will fix, tune and change. You know how it is, you’re never done :s I tried to add some subtle designs elements that you might not notice at first, but makes the experience a lot nicer.

I did not go the HTML 5 route, not yet, but I did use some CSS3 elements, like border-radius for rounded corners. All of you Using IE, the site will be just a tiny bit less appealing for you, Sorry! Haven’t used that much javascript either, allthough got some ideas for things I want to incorporate in the near future. And off course, what more perfect place to try stuff out than ones own site.

I’m hoping to keep the blog alive and kicking now with the new site and wordpress. I still have the swedish blog left and as that was going to be my main focus for blogging about web related stuff, because there are so many english already, you should add it to your reader also (yes I’m on a mighty self promotion journey here).

Well I’d love some comments on the new site and/or any bugs you find, yes yes there might some. It’s my own site not a clients , no worries *eeeehm*