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Table of Contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Preface
  3. Introduction
  4. Markdown
    1. Why Should You Care?
    2. How Markdown is Used in Leanpub
    3. Markdown Extensions in Leanpub
  5. Sample Books
    1. Why Sample Books?
    2. Consequences for Manuscripts
  6. Images and Cover Pages
    1. Watch Your File Sizes!
    2. Technical Books
    3. Business Books
    4. Fiction Books
  7. July 2007
    1. Justice served
    2. Another weekend
    3. Pownce
    4. Paper reading
    5. BomjPacket at SourceForge
    6. An interesting gadget
    7. Paper reading
    8. HTML to XHTML
  8. August 2007
    1. OSCON
  9. October 2007
    1. Bomjpacket making news
  10. November 2007
    1. A new project
    2. Kindle - the dream gadget
  11. November 2007
    1. PHP4 is a tricky language
    2. Me, the Columnist
    3. Again, again, again
  12. include
  13. December 2007
    1. A perfect travel computer
    2. Use of cookies in authentication
    3. Source code search engine
    4. Siberian Cutter is available!
  14. January 2008
    1. Book reading
    2. Book reading
    3. The Brothers Karamazov: what this book is trying to say
    4. Book reading
    5. Road runner visualized and analyzed
    6. Web site update
    7. A book of interest
    8. The Futurist's view of global issues
    9. Smart Home
    10. Book reading
    11. Cellphone make statistics
    12. A perfect Internet browsing cellphone
    13. Spoiled food: use with caution
    14. Using cellphone as a 3D mouse
    15. Conference of interest
    16. Bomjpacket plan 2008
    17. Digital picture frame infected with a virus
    18. Invisible paper in Computer Vision conference
  15. February 2008
    1. Mobile Linux platforms
    2. Detachable Cellphone Display
    3. A 400% faster Linux file system
    4. Yahoo! Go - a mobile web service for advanced cellphones
    5. The Brothers Karamazov: wrapup
    6. Web site statistics
    7. 3D model using just one image
    8. Secure design of web applications
    9. MapSnapper - get a map using a cellphone
    10. Automated book scanning
    11. What to read to remain technically savvy
    12. Paper reading
    13. Vulnerability that has been predicted
    14. Google Local News
    15. Windows-based smartphone from SonyEricsson
    16. Reading papers from Carnegie-Mellon
    17. OperaMini supports Flash and tabs
    18. GSMA - cellphone conference
    19. Paper reading - DNS rebinding and pharming
    20. Paper reading: web vulnerabilities
    21. Proofreading techreports
    22. Paper reading - Application security
    23. Collection of security and dependability papers
    24. Semantic Web has arrived
    25. Web users - beware
  16. February 2008
    1. Government adopts technology
    2. Research library update
    3. Paper reading - dataflow attacks
    4. Moving to Finland
  17. March 2008
    1. New Internet attacks
    2. Botnet paper in NDSS
    3. Interesting security sites
    4. Pictures from Finland
    5. Expense tracker
    6. Mobile applications for E65
    7. Take a screenshot of your mobile device
    8. Music identification using a cellphone
    9. What I am reading
    10. Half-marathon in Sein채joki
    11. Interview with Arthur C. Clarke
    12. Pictures of Tampere
    13. Marathons displayed using Exhibit
    14. Marathons mashup, continued
    15. Documenting Yahoo Pipes
  18. April 2008
    1. New apartment
    2. March expenses
    3. Museums in Tampere
    4. Fish Market
  19. May 2008
    1. Mobile TV
    2. Tourist information using cellphone
    3. A trip to Hämeenlinna castle
    4. Cell phones in medical imaging
    5. Panasonic DMC FZ8
    6. Finnish page on my web site
  20. June 2008
    1. Tampere - the city of industry
    2. Preparing for a half-marathon
    3. New record in half-marathon
  21. July 2008
    1. A trip to Lapland
    2. A wonderful marathon in a medieval town
    3. Update: half-marathon official time in
    4. What I am up to these days
    5. My skates
  22. August 2008
    1. Mathieu Montcourt wins Tampere Open
    2. Nature in the city
    3. Book reading
  23. September 2008
    1. Squirrel spotted
    2. What is a marathon
    3. Very interesting car
    4. Book reading - the Cult of Mac
    5. A couple of squirrels
    6. Slacker uprising
    7. Skating golden Tampere
  24. October 2008
    1. Connecting with squirrels
    2. Tampere Panorama
    3. Photosynth opens up new horizons
  25. October 2008
    1. Tappara plays anything but hockey against Saipa
    2. Book reading: Programming Collective Intelligence
    3. Growing up physically and mentally
  26. November 2008
    1. Ruby ported to Symbian OS
    2. Sauna in Tampere
    3. Weather forecast on your mobile device
    4. Tampere at night
    5. Book reading: How life imitates chess
  27. December 2008
    1. Weather forecast project
    2. Book reading: The Last Lecture
    3. Web APIs are very powerful
    4. Book reading: An Inconvenient Truth
    5. Count the windows of Turku Castle!
  28. January 2009
    1. New Year 2009 in Helsinki
    2. Hitting slopes in Finland
    3. Google Charts Builder
    4. Year 2008 in computers and Internet
  29. February 2009
    1. Himos reports
    2. Mein Gott! Those mysterious Russians...
    3. Book reading: The Fate of Africa. A history of fifty years of independence
    4. Jokerit - a team with positive qualities
  30. March 2009
    1. Book reading: Peterburg's novels
    2. Food for thought
    3. Book reading: A Fate of Africa, going bankrupt
    4. Book reading: A Fate of Africa, facades of democrary
    5. Flying Finns
    6. Half-marathon in Tassuralli: improved result against all odds
  31. April 2009
    1. A gorgeous Gogol movie
    2. My new phone
    3. Book reading: Productive Projects and Teams
    4. World ice-hockey championship in Tampere
    5. Wake up images
  32. May 2009
    1. Playing Molkky on Vappu day
    2. Half-marathon in Kyronjoki: brighter than sunshine
    3. Sports tracker mobile application
    4. Alex Katz, an American way of seeing
    5. Jean Michel Jarre - the classical gems for the rest of us
    6. My trip to Helsinki. Powered by Schmap
    7. I have run a marathon!
    8. Book reading: The Google Way
  33. June 2009
    1. Enjoying Tampere in the summer
    2. Amazing organ concerts
    3. My online library
    4. Trip to Savonlinna on Juhannus, part 1
    5. New organ concert
    6. Trip to Savonlinna on Juhannus, part 2
    7. I am on vacation
  34. July 2009
    1. Russian Orthodox Church in Nizhny Novgorod
  35. August 2009
    1. My vacation in Russia
    2. Kiitos, Tampere!
  36. August 2009
    1. Moving to Helsinki
    2. Trip to Tallinn
    3. Teleca party 2009
  37. September 2009
    1. Weekends in Helsinki
    2. Gorgeous concert tonight
    3. Book reading: Here comes everybody
    4. My new bike
    5. A half-marathon in a friendly town of Espoo
    6. A concert in Stone Church
    7. It takes luck to score a goal
  38. October 2009
    1. Wild animals in Helsinki
    2. Xtreme Car Show
    3. Distinguished Lecture Series, continued
    4. A trip to Maemo Summit in Amsterdam, part 1
    5. Maemo Summit in Amsterdam, part 2
    6. In Amsterdam, part 3
    7. A trip to Tallinn with friends
    8. Book reading: Myths of Security
    9. Pablo Picasso exhibition
  39. November 2009
    1. Karjala Cup opening game
    2. Book reading: A revised history of Russia
    3. Karjala Cup: gorgeous victory of Russians
    4. Our house, in the middle of our street
    5. Dostoevsky's Idiot: Finns learn to stage Hollywood movies
  40. December 2009
    1. How to understand Dostoevsky: a short guide for the actors of Espoo Theater
    2. Helsinki Organ Summer library opens!
    3. Book reading: CSS Cookbook
    4. Book reading: New Chronology, another book in this series
    5. Book reading: Bridges, Facades, and Flyweights, and oh my
    6. Opening Season at Himos
    7. Prisoners of cleaningness
    8. Enjoying my Lifetime membership at ACM
    9. Research trend of the year: Parallel Computing
    10. Timeline Builder -- my new project
  41. January 2010
    1. New Year 2010 Fireworks
    2. Driving in Helsinki in the winter
    3. Reading a few Communications of ACM articles
    4. Donate to Haiti recovery effort
    5. Adding features to SIMILE Timeline
    6. Reading interesting magazines
  42. February 2010
    1. Optimizing web pages
    2. Weekends in the winter: swimming, ice skating, movies, and reading
    3. 2800 kilometers in 24 hours
  43. March 2010
    1. Mobile Dev Camp 2010 in Helsinki
    2. Git tips and tricks
    3. Economist special reports on financial crisis and information management
    4. Ovi Store offers lots of cool applications for your Nokia device
    5. Linux Seminar in Oulu 2010 featuring Bjarne Stroustrup
    6. Marc Minkowski, Anne Kauppi, a four-hour vocal marathon -- this is Helsinki after all!
  44. April 2010
    1. Obituary: my grandmother Alexandra Dmitrievna Tokareva 1917-2010
  45. April 2010
    1. Reading list Spring 2010
    2. Unboxing ceremony: my new HP TouchSmart
    3. Opening season 2010 -- a Marathon without further ado
    4. Book reading: Adding Ajax
  46. May 2010
    1. Book reading: Beautiful Security
    2. Building cities for the rest of us
    3. Book reading: Google Sketchup for Dummies
  47. June 2010
    1. A trip to an old monastery: we cannot do nowadays what people did in 1400s
    2. Cracking iPhone at my birthday party
    3. A trip to Semyonov, museum of Khohloma, and Church Fair
  48. July 2010
    1. WIRED magazine, what it looks like nowadays
    2. Hot Summer 2010
  49. August 2010
    1. Content is the King
    2. Huge forest fires which I luckily avoided
    3. WIRED magazine advertises science that deals with massive amounts of data
    4. A trip to Moscow
  50. September 2010
    1. Visiting Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan
    2. A trip to Sun Moon Lake
    3. Recipe: Cookies Summary: tasty cookies Ingredients get them at
    4. Recipe: \href {http://alexeysmirnov.name
    5. A trip to Taipei
  51. October 2010
    1. Parties at ITRI and beyond
    2. Swimming in Pacific Ocean and visiting Taipei 101
    3. A 10km run in Hsinchu
    4. A trip to Yehliu Geo Park
    5. Biking competition
  52. November 2010
    1. A three-day trip to Yilan
    2. Lecture of a K. Novoselov, nobel laureate in Physics
    3. Reading Dostoevsky's novels
    4. Trip to Russia to manage my company
  53. December 2010
    1. Reading magazines
    2. Visiting Andrei Rublev Museum in Moscow
    3. Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    4. A few other trips -- video
    5. Year 2010 wrapup
  54. January 2011
    1. Two very useful Windows programs
    2. Celebrating new year 2011
    3. A hot spring and Flora Expo in Taipei
    4. Bike tours in Hsinchu
    5. Idiot by Dostoevsky
  55. February 2011
    1. Dostoevsky. Devils.
    2. I am singing Moscow Nights
    3. Image Gallery builder -- a new WordPress plugin
  56. March 2011
    1. Shanghai -- a city of beautiful skyscrapers
    2. Book reading: Mythical Man-Month
    3. \nobreakspace {
  57. April 2011
    1. //
    2. Flickr on Steroids -- my new WordPress plugin
    3. Some modelling exercises
    4. A long trip to Russia
    5. My new house
  58. May 2011
    1. Scuba-diving in Kenting
    2. Reading Dostoevsky: The Double and Hostess
    3. Reading WIRED Magazine: wake up and build something, everybody
    4. Summer in our center
  59. June 2011
    1. Lots and lots of trips
    2. Rushing to Russia
    3. A few trips in Russia
    4. WIRED describes innovation in the US
    5. I have turned 30
  60. July 2011
    1. A few final trips in Russia
    2. Karting and paintball
    3. Reading Dostoevsky even during the summer
  61. August 2011
    1. Trips to Taipei with interns
    2. Hiking at Syakaro Historic Trail
    3. Preparing for Hsinchu marathon
    4. Folding RNA for fun and profit
  62. September 2011
    1. Dostoevsky novels that deal with lower classes
    2. Finally getting my hands on Communications of ACM
    3. Your own food tastes better
    4. It's a final countdown
  63. October 2011
    1. The typhoon has been beaten up
    2. Grand Slam in Taipei
    3. Science fiction -- such a thought provoking reading
    4. Aida and Diamond Parrot
    5. 3:46:09
  64. November 2011
    1. Konstantin Scherbakov -- a really great pianist
    2. Book reading: the Twitter book
    3. Dostoevsky's Notes from prison vs. Solzhenitsin's Gulag Archipelago
    4. Trip to Sugar Factory, Rice Castle, and historical town of Lukang
  65. December 2011
    1. CCMA trip to Hualien
    2. Book review: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
    3. Travelling with iPhone
    4. Flying on the wings of morning breeze
    5. Glancing through CACM magazine
    6. Rediscovering running
    7. Introducing Volkov Commander for Web 1.0
    8. Year 2011 wrap-up
  66. January 2012
    1. Modelling on January 1st
    2. Riding on bicycle into the New Year
    3. To be or not to be?
    4. Simple and genious
    5. Wikipedia for maps
  67. February 2012
    1. My busy vacation
    2. Lantern Festival
    3. Book review: Cyber Warfare
    4. Cheap tablet rocks!
    5. Games that are not just for fun
  68. March 2012
    1. Caught in the teleporter
    2. A Half-Marathon for Ninja Turtles
    3. Book review: Design of Design Essays from a Computer Scientist

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