Showing the products part 2

Bauhaus has touch for showing the products.... part 2

http://tuomosthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/03/about-showing-your-products-in-shop.html

Dapper.net was ever so cool... and it's getting better

It's a bit more than 6 months since I last visited and fiddled around with www.Dapper.net. It was cool already then and I created feed for EPS windmeter which I then used in a WidSets widget ... and have been using ever since. Now I checked Dapper again since I wanted to add the same windmeter feed to my iGoogle, and found some great new additions like Firefox plugin to RSSisize any page and flash widget code generator. Excellent !

And virality seems to be well thought of too since there's a small green plus ;o) in amazingly industry defacto standard style for "add to webpage"...

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Two kind of charm & charisma...

Pauli and Kolmas Nainen, Peruna Teatteri (both my old super favorites), and now with new band Hehkumo in UMG Spring Break... Always new great stuff from Pauli.

















Retropop - all 4 persons in the band very radiently live in the stage ... somehow rare. Great stuff.

Aiming high, execute to perfection...

I had to take my N82 to be serviced. I took it to Nokia Flagship Store in Aleksanterinkatu which also has care service point in it. Sitting in there with about 10-15 other persons queuing to the service made me think WHY do they have care service point there ?
The store is very nice, all the devices are well placed, location couldn't be better, and there are lot's of helpfull staff there.

However, care service point has 2-3 persons working which means that store is actually growded with pretty grim looking persons queuing for more than half an hour to get serviced.
In practise this all turns out pretty much followingly for the total experience...
Those persons who actually just come to see the devices and discuss about them (as I guess is the main purpose) will see first a showroom full of pretty unhappy/bored looking persons just waiting (=sitting in front of the device tables blocking the way to the devices) to get serviced, then they wonder why there are lot's of Nokia store staff just waiting to get customers but the ones waiting and staff do not connect (since only care personnel can service care cases... which take some time to understand for the first timer), and then finally visitors inevitably start to wonder how the store is filled with customers with problems with Nokia devices...
So yes, very convinient idea to combine showroom and care service, but I think the execution is not on the level of the idea and thus the result is not the wanted experience.

Flagship store must be pretty hefty investment both money- and imagowise - I hope someone is really watching after it and making sure that it really serves the purpose...

ps. as it is a world's mobile communication leaders showroom one should expect to be able to use all devices core features including calling and messaging...

Last warning Tuomo - start exercising ...now

I haven't really done any decent (or actually to be honest any at all) physical exercises during the winter ... if eating does not count as exercise. Today I found bitterly and the hard way how you should really keep in shape even if you don't eg really gain too much weight by just eating and sleeping.

Very nice wind was promised for today (execpt for the direction of the wind which was NW-NNW... land wind which causes lot of turbulance in the beach), so Simo and I had agreed over the weekend to go and start the season on Monday. This we did.

After lots of turbulances when heading to the open channel where the wind was at max, we had some great but very close to edge planing.
I was flat out after some time - the wind was extreme and change directions in big bursts. Too extreme to my current skills and 7m2 sail.... plus my incredible bad physical condition :o( We both went back to beach to rest and drink. For a few moments I thought this was it for me, but the stupidity and sense of "immortality" won, and we headed back.

The wind twisted sail like hell and I did not have guts to go more downwind. Both us went ashore on the other side to rest again. After some time we headed back. Or actually Simo headed back - I dropped off with hardening twisting wind right in the middle of the channel, and simply did not managed any more to get the board going well without dropping again. Run out of energy, and that was it ... could do anything else except to sit on a board and try to recover. Failed in all tries to get going again.

Finally I saw a Buster boat, and luckily they saw me waving at them. And the guys came to rescue me - throw me a rope and took me to next island where I packed my gear. We lifted the gear to the boat, and they took to home beach. Thanks a lot two gentlemen fishing Baltic Herring ! Thanks Simo for looking after !

Well, just bursty high wind and sail size are just lame excuses - root cause is my bad physical condition. This was a wake up call - start excersing again !

Mouth explosion....

Deli lunch
Originally uploaded by jyri

Cotelette et Caviar in Kapteeninkatu next to KOM theater exploded my taste nerves today... rarely if ever have experience the kind of mouth sensation during lunch time thanks to some magical bluecheese sauce and buttery wedgies.

Excellent (as almost always is ... )!