Inconvinient truth....

I watched Al Gore's Inconvinient truth movie twice on the way and back to/from Melbourne... everybody should see it: http://www.climatecrisis.net/

US status (and Australia's too)towards Kioto actions would be quite different if justice would have been in use in that particular election.

The really sad thing is that eg writers for likes of Engadget etc. still quote the movie as controversial climate movie.... nothing is controversial except disbelief of the obvious.

Both and....

Maybe the key is to do just one thing truly uniquely well at a given time - and do it by thinking that God is within details.... so the solving the big issue by solving the small issues into extreme ? or by identifying the big issue and solving it by mastering even the smallest details into the extreme ? Solve something which nobody has yet been able to solve thoroughly without making compromises ?

Apple team and Steve Jobs managed to bring together 5 biggest music publishers (dead afraid of downloadable music), artists (pissed off with Napster, Kazaa ripping them off of their money) and consumers (puzzled about what's digital music, what's legal and pissed off with the difficulcy of all so far existing music download solutions). This all combined to a device with styling and details not seen so far. Celebricities like U2, famous rappers,... to break the news.

No photos/videos - just music first (like one would have typically done since it would have been possible).

One "simple" issue solved but with total approach and lots of attention into "design" in it's all aspects. We engineers do that way too rarely and just simply drown ourselves with functions not carefully and thoroughly enough mastered causing us to just simply fail.

Advertising with a vision... how right they were ;o)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1089/1921/1600/IMGP5696.jpg

over 240 people at the worst queing for taxi at 4am ... nice

Email ... adverts .... trust... gone

Interesting how circle of trust is totally gone/broken by few adverts profiled from keywords from an email... seriously considering deleting my gmail account now.

Another great book ....

This is another awsome book - Pasi borrowed it for me, I kept it for about a year or so frequently thingking how great the first 60 pages were and how I cannot get myself to finally read it thru. Well then I returned it to Pasi, bought my own copy ... which I managed to lend to somebody before finishing it myself (pathetic). Now I don't know who has it (dementic).

Competing for the future by Gary Hamel & C.K. Prahalad.

Remember to finally really read it someday ...

iCon... great book

Thanks for letting me keep the book for so long, Antoine ! Finally got it going and it's really a great book... as you said ;o)
(Not that I'd be comparable to Steven Jobs but ;o) somehow the book also raises some thoughts on my own behaviour like a good book quite often does ... iCon by Jeffrey S. Young & Willam L. Simon:



















And speaking of iMAC's I found a retirement home for iMACs yesterday ;o)

Dear Farther Christmas ...

Vili's Xmas present list for 2006:

Karvakamut - Open season

Ours and Sony Picture's:

New Blogger....

Vau what an improvment .... flash like pic uploads, flash like publishing. Good work !

Democracy... works, no ?

rambunctious rulers ....

The future of TV....

Conan has seen it all... the future of TV (among other things):

TV's will soon grow so to be so big that families have to stay out of the house and look at TV from outside thru the window. The wolves can cause problems then.
In the ultimate TV-society there will be 6 kilometeres high plasma screen, which you can see from each costs of America. It will have 1 Million channels, but everybody will complain that there nothing good in TV."

Egotrippi/Matkustaja... Brilliant (again ;o)

BLACK SHADOWS

"Please tell me from where those black shadows
always somehow seem to find
their ways to me
searching me to their hands

Please tell me why still that way to the light
always somehow seem to be only short of lenght of that shadow
the way continues even though I know it
to only demand one single step.."

tai jotensaakkii silviissii enklanniks ?

Very beautifull song and awakening lyrics. Another great one on the CD is "Varovasti nyt".

In ämpoks we knew this is where it will go ;o)

The winner takes it all.... and we knew it previous venture ;o)

A shame that nobody believed us then - Well, luckily our own "Teuvo Työ" knows it all since 1996 ;o)

Ski/Digi/Boardexpo 2006....

Again the snowboard guys showed where it blows from ;o) .... the now of advertising and product placement could be seen in Boardexpo:




Everything else was like .....every year.

Strange optical illusion....

Pyhäinmiestenpäivä.... I went to Lahti to pick up mom to Espoo for Sunday dinner with the family.

On the way back home at RingIII we saw pretty cool optical illusion - looked like we'd be driving steep downhill towards the sea

Start to save the world ? .. engineers view

Telecoms saves the world... ;o)

Stage 1) we all agree that we'll all spend one day every week at home working instead of commuting 0.5-2 hours (each direction) every single working day
- immeadite and significant saviours in fuel & H2O prouduction in the most consuming areas
- significant increase in productivity since we could actually work instead of "working" in every hour is a meeting hour environment.

Stage 2) we all agree that we'll all spend 2 days every week at home working instead of commuting 0.5-2 hours (each direction) every single working day
- immeadite and very significant saviours in fuel & H2O prouduction in the most consuming areas
- very significant increase in productivity since we could actually work instead of "working" in evry hour is a meeting hour environment

Stage 3) we all agree that we'll all spend 3 days every week at home working instead of commuting 0.5-2 hours (each direction) every single working day
- immeadite and totally significant saviours in fuel & H2O prouduction in the most consuming areas
- totally significant increase in productivity since we could actually work instead of "working" in every hour is a meeting hour environment

I don't know what could be the stage 4 but I firmly believe that by utilising telecoms we could make stage 1-3 work and what should be great for all also increase productivity... Finland should/could be THE example and kick everybody's -ss ;O) here.

Hey - the kids would even see they parents during the weekdays !! Wouldn't it be great for the society if our kids would have their both parents welcoming them at home coming ?

KUITUA MAAHAN ! Instead of ever increasing road investments put that opitical cable to the ground and let the real broadband save the world...

www.blyk.com and Media-allallallalallah ?

Blyk.com ...Wierd - why hasn't anybody acted on it (I'm sure many have actually thought something like it ?). Great idea anyway to act on - way to go Mr. Ala-Pietilä !

First snow ... immeadite traffic jams

Huono lihaskunto....aina sama juttu

Sunday ... teaching Karate for 1.5 hours and then 3 hours of chopping woods. The result (again) - laughing hurts as **ll.
Today I was driving back from work and listening YLEX's team afternoon really made me hurt. Watching The Simpsons with the guys at home really hurt. Liikunta on pahasta !

Advertising with a vision... makes the difference

Saw this in Sunday paper ... beautifull example how good innovative advertising looks for unconventional approaches and thus totally rocks in people's minds.

"News for those who do not find company's Xmas party to be quite a real one without a massive taxi queues... now nothing is missing from Silja Line's Xmas parties. From November on we have real taxi stands on decks where you can go and visit if you wish so. You decide how long you stand there, we quarantee the toughest queueing conditions in Baltic Sea.
....
Feet above the ground."

In era of the overwhelming stimulants only those who really try to find new wierd mixtures & approaches can wake some end user reactions... and even if we know this it seems that it's easier to just go with something conventional - "let's not try to be funny for now".


I want to go for pikkujoulu cruising with Silja line for the first time ever !!

Windy Autumn Sunday...

+1C and 13m/s North wind is too cold for water sports.... +1C and 13m/s North wind is just about the right wheather for a stroll in Eiranranta and hot White chocolate & fresh munkki in Carousel.

Some more beer to remember....

What the heck ?

"Yoga flying will be teached in 4 phases" .... "6000€ + 22% taxes with 12month downpayments" ... "Financial Capital of Finland Oy"

Excellent Trappist beer...

La Trappe Blond ... very nice indeed. Might be the best from them all ? or then not. Nice anyway.

Miserable failure... or just brothers ?

I've been using quite some time to try to explain Otto and Vili how "you should build positive brother-2-brother relationship instead of constantly nagging each others since there will be enough naggers in the world"... I found a drawing today from Vili's desk describing ~10 ways to kill Otto. I asked Vili what was it all about and the answer was just simply "Otto is irritating" ?




















Another grand failure or just a normal phase between brothers ? Hopefully the latter...

Tampere....

Two days/16hours of intensive sitting in the Karate's World Championships... otherwise pretty well organised but unfortunately the organisers had more like "Karate-Kid-the-movie"-games in their minds than World Championships. All the cliche rock songs with the help of an announcer with all the "Are you ready ? I said ARE YOU READY ? Look at those tiger eyes of our lady competitors ..."-cliches and 20 seconds National hymns instead of the normal a bit more uplifting stuff one would expect from world championships. Well maybe it's just me...


Tampere is great ... I like it more every time I visit it. The view from the room in the 15th floor in the Hotel Ilves was nice. Specifically love the fact that there is still a working factory with all that steam bursting into the air. The lakes everywhere...

Copenhagen...

I had the pleasure to speak for Nordic Broadcasters in Copenhagen about "Web2.0" and WidSets... I was there already around 10am so I had _plenty_ of time to wander around in the very beautifull&charming Copenhagen. On the way to downtown from the airport I only just could admire the Danish modern architecture - as far as I am considered they are the best by far - all those sculpturelike new office buildings !
... well I arrived to downtown, sat myself down first for 1.5 hours to a very nice cafe called Europa, drank a liter of latte and finalised what I thought was a pretty nice presentation about what all "web2.0" means for different people. (I found later from Flickr (thanks to HeGe) that "Guy from Nokia partner Widsets talking about web 2.0 or something. " Web2.0 or something ? so obviously my presentation was not that cool nor clear after all ;o

I spend several hours wondering around the beautifull city taking pics...

















Great toilet in Cafe Europa... carefully crafted from steel L-bars ;o)

New friend in Finnish beer scene...

Rokrammi Pils...
Well done Saimaan Panimo !

477 000 shootings last year

477 000 shootings in US last year - 50% increase compared to year before. Scary.

The world from our the roof...and the moon

I had to clime to our roof to get rid of the dirt around our roof windows (the reason for some water leakage)... world looks slightly different again from 12meters high up... rising autumn moon was a nice bonus