The blog is now open to the public
30-Nov-2025 | This far I have just moved here some old content from different parts of Domnik.net website. From this on, I start publishing new content. The blog is now open for those who can find it but I will promote it more only after there is a bit more new stuff here.
Alternatives to CouchSurfing
27-Nov-2025 | As of May 15th, 2020, CouchSurfing is not free anymore. You have to pay either a monthly a yearly fee, and they were recently raised. But it is not the only hospitality exchange community: there are free alternatives like BeWelcome and TrustRoots, as well as others (either for free or for a fee).
Dominica and Roseau maps from my M.Sc. Thesis
25-Nov-2025 | Cleaning my website, I decided to remove the outdated Dominica pages which didn't have much content that would be still relevant. However, as the map page has been relatively popular I moved its content to this blog post. The maps were mostly made for my Master's Thesis (Geography) in 2001.
What Breivik really said about his religion?
13-Nov-2025 | In July, 2011, there were terror attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utøya where 77 mostly young people were killed. Anders Behring Breivik, the terrorist behind the attacks, has both claimed and denied being Christian, also claiming that his faith is actually Odinism. To find out what is his relationship with Christian religion, I read the relevant parts of his manifesto, took some quotes, and comment them here.
On the ontology of handedness
08-Nov-2025 | The ontological question about handedness is the difference between 'right' and 'left'. How to define those without reference to any particular asymmetric object?
About this blog
01-Nov-2025 | This is a blog of Niko Lipsanen, a Finnish geographer and couchsurfing host who lives in Helsinki but sometimes spends winters in the Canary Islands, more exactly in the town of Puerto de la Cruz on the island of Tenerife.
