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Proof of how stupid world is...

2011-09-16T18:57:00.001+03:00

The valuation of Rovio is expected reach Nokia... Zynga's valuation is between 10...20B€ with 235M revenue, 11.8M profit in a quartal.
How freaking far from real world economics?
Finance economy = 20 x real world economy keeps killing us...

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Huraa!

2011-08-30T12:13:00.001+03:00

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Nice one... Birds & Bees

2011-08-26T18:55:00.001+03:00

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War against....

2011-08-26T18:42:00.001+03:00

Good stuff by Mohamed... Like pretty much always.

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Sudden burst of mysteriously stupid Qs...

2011-06-15T16:57:00.001+03:00

What’s going on in FB – some weird new spying scheme, spoofing user IDs, checking out viral effectivity???

Funny (=sad) proof of “cultural erosion” … about 50% of 70k people thinks the answer to 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1-1+1+1+1+1+1+1x0 =? is 0.

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Don't do that RockMelt... fineloosing trust

2011-06-15T10:26:00.001+03:00

I have been a pretty happy and also excited user of RockMelt for quite some time (almost from beginning?). It does integration of info/comms and browser in value adding way.

It was a bit scary to start using it by having to “give away” your social media accounts, first thing. But I got over it – sort of a trust was created thanks to the value it added.

They do also frequently updates with no pre-warnings – pretty significant changes to functionality actually if I remember correctly. This is quite a bit different in their case compared to a “normal” browser, since they do integrate service experience deeply into browser – it’s not just the looks and speed that get’s updated.

Now the last attack update really first time seems to touch the service itself – RockMelt seems to remove functionality from Facebook page and integrate it to browser.

There goes familiar service user experience and comes browser depencecy.

There goes one RockMelt user back to good old Chrome….

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Broken window theory and organizations... TISKIANTERO?

2011-06-15T00:25:00.001+03:00

Had (as always) really fruitful strategy session with Sebastian... as a side track (among many things like usual) we discussed about Broken window theory. The discussion wondered from "how the theory is so true in office environment" to "does the theory apply to how project/customer driven organization's work". We agreed - it does. To both.

A whiteboard flower... lie Sebu so well it crystallized :D

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Xmas?

2011-06-15T00:01:00.001+03:00

Just visited Outi and saw the Xmas card from Vili .... I like the style, he is talented (is a proud dad saying) but should I be worried :D

As a side remark - what a HUGE difference between HTC 5Mpix and Nokia 5Mpix. Nokia had the pic quality of current HTC like 5y ago.

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THE world's shitties?

2011-06-08T21:59:00.001+03:00

Dakine power up hauler... What a piece a shit.

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Great beer... despite of the name

2011-06-06T23:42:00.001+03:00

The name could not be worse... which is propably the purpose: Burger & Bun L.A. Lager by Mikkeller.

But fantastic flavour!

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Soul of company

2011-05-27T22:16:00.001+03:00

I believe companies have a soul. It is a summary of the inspirations of it's employees and appreciation of these inspiratrions by employer.

Companies typically try to formulate this soul into "values". Unfortunately these will tend to inevitably turn against the good cause - "values" tend to amputate the soul because in people's minds and in everyday's management realities "values" turn into outgiven, extrenalised consultancy styled jargon. Companies make it even worse by enforcing these "values" in policies and in best practices ... which do not really go along with the term "soul".

For me what happened eg in Nokia is an example of this.... Nokia's soul was really drive for better solutions. I felt (in the 1990's) that this was practically every individual's primary agenda in the company - to solve things in the best possible way. Also, Nokia's real culture valued this greatly. "Solving" was encouraged and appreciated. Then it all changed - management was officially (eg by Mr. JT Berqvist) stated to be the "only scarce resource", "everything else (=everybody) is plentifull". 2000 was the start of the era where Nokia amputed it's soul, it's employees' spirit.... and it's competitiveness.

For me Apple's soul in the quest of mechanical and aesthical perfection - they drive for it and excel in the markets.

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Kriek... always a small surprise after long break

2011-05-27T21:12:00.001+03:00

OH .... it's red!

but it is nice :D

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Shower thinking ...

2011-05-27T21:01:00.001+03:00

Friday early morning shower thoughts: "Man I wish it would be Saturday, and I could go windsurfing... sleep and chill." "Hold on ............ am I really practically every day, even constantly, looking forward for something 1,2,3,... days ahead?" "I am." "I am soon 46y and time flies anyways way too fast.... gotta change this somehow"

One of the big human questions is starting to materialise itself to me - how to enjoy every moment of shortening life, how to make most of it without stressing? How to stay in the moment?

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Could be equally wealthy with local thanks to current technology?

2011-05-27T20:44:00.001+03:00

Listening to YLE Radio1 morning .... political commentators making quite righteous comments about the election winner party Persut ("True Finns") are extremely populistic = over simplyfying complex questions and complex world. True. They are. That is so cheap.

But it make we wonder, why is world increasingly complex... even to us "common people" nowadays. Global free economy? Yep that is the root cause for all this massively increased complexity. It is however also of course the source of this increased wealth (at least western wealth).

Could we have close to similar wealth nowadays, with the help of the new technology, new global innovations, if we could go increasingly back to local? Would it be more sustainable because we would be more limited by what resources we have in "proximity"? Would it be less stressy because the competition would be concrete, not virtual, and limited by same resources? Would we all have work?

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Why we are loosing if this continues...

2011-05-27T20:16:00.001+03:00

Work continues moving to "cheaper countries", increasingly in terms of higher value jobs... the significantly cheaper price of a working hour is always be mentioned as the reason for this. Looking around, hearing friends and relatives, having experienced myself, makes me wonder if there are couple of other very important reasons....

1. pretty freaking horrid inefficiency that has been slowly (?) inbuild to our western corporate way of working through our "meeting culture". Massive amounts of meetings! That's what pretty much everybody seem to be having, constantly. And Individuals trying to manage their real work during evenings... which in turns slowly turns into de-facto burn-outs. Or at least constant lack of rest = ineffectivity in the long term.

I started working 1992 in Nokia, and in my own experience the big change started from working to "working"=meetings started after 2004 or so....

As a curiosity & sort of a proof of this can be seen in Nokia's Ruoholahti office - I guess it was designed around 2000 and each wing was planned to have 1 meeting room. I went there 2003 and left the site 2008 - during that time, 4 rooms were turned into new meeting rooms per wing - at they were constatly booked.

2. email has turned into as source of communicative chaos and burn-outer of human beings.... as it is now being used in many corporates, it is menace instead of usefull communicative tool. I bet it is a great source of inefficiency in the western working culture.

3. genuinely working community and common total end result (economical and sprititual) driven management has largely disappeared, and has been substituted by individual agendas only.

Sad. Hopefully the new working generation with it's emerging new values, will save the western competiveness and wealth.

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Chaplin's The Gold Rush and RSO....

2011-05-27T18:23:00.001+03:00

The last Finlandia House "gig" of Radio Symphony Orchestra in May 26th .... Charlie Chaplin's music played by RSO for the original 1925 version of The Gold Rush. Fantastic - touching. Squeezed few tears in the end.
Pretty amazing how much more one co-live the movie when it's not having any sounds from the movie itself. I noticed myself jumping when Charlie had a hick-up.

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Too good to be true?

2011-05-18T00:58:00.001+03:00

Keeping my humble thumbs up that this would be real and go global fast..... sort of raises the faith again that we can solve things with engineering and not only cause them.

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Pretty expensive

2011-05-18T00:53:00.001+03:00

Pretty expensive beer :D ...

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"Tee todellisia löytöjä"....

2011-05-16T11:45:00.001+03:00

Banner ad with a message: “Experience true findings” ... with a final touch (an arrow pulsating towards you know what)

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Office building mania...

2011-05-09T22:40:00.001+03:00

Been wondering that too.... for long time. Who needs all those new offices - everywhere?

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Well said.... legendary Jaakko Kolmonen

2011-05-09T22:36:00.001+03:00

"When then in 60's started this era of plentifulness and import mania, everything good (that had been build around Finnish home grown ingredients) was flushed down in few moments"

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Newspaper adapting to new world - The era of metal... and about gold

2011-05-08T22:25:00.005+03:00

The Era of Metals is exactly the kind of stuff newspaper should be doing… interesting background for news. Hesari has been good in it for quite some time, and is getting better.

About gold – pretty interesting that there is a valuable and also very useful metal, and still it’s mostly just stored. Huge amounts of it in national bank reserves all over the globe. It is also one of the main metals in mining industry, so we use huge amounts of energy and effort to dig it out and refine it – just to be mainly stored.

Great.

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Cars - that big meteorite of our time...

2011-05-08T22:25:00.003+03:00

For Dinosauruses it took just one meteorite and few weeks? For us it took just 50-100 years and about a zillion cars?

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Death of Western middle class....

2011-05-08T22:25:00.001+03:00

Heikki Patomäki speaking in Hesari about death of Western middle class… slow one. Evident however since this kind of wealth is not really sustainable?

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The reason for today's distress

2011-04-16T12:42:00.001+03:00

Yesterday’s illnesses did a master reset for our weekend plans resulting a super relaxed Sunday morning session with Valtteri (having his Space Police-Gansta wars and speaking constantly), me listening to divine flow of notes (Das Wohltemperierte Klavier András Schiff – J.S. Bach: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1, BWV 846-869 - Prelude in C sharp major BWV 848) and digging into Hesari’s I did not have time to read during then week.

Late Tony Judt: “The core reason for the distress of our time is that we have placed the pursuit of our individual material interests as virtue, which blurs our awareness of common goals”… exactly to the point.

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World build on a static model vs dynamic...

2011-04-14T18:48:00.007+03:00

Had a really brain stimulating discussion again with Otto (as always) in Café Picnic…. One new observation worth of writing down:

Only for the last 20-30-40 years we (the “western” life style people) have been living according to sort of “static resources world model” – we assume that energy, water, warmth, all sorts of food and goods are available to us at any given time. The whole (business) world seem to be actually build upon that demand. More such things are created for us every year. All the competition is around who delivers us the best/cheapest static supply.

Only for the last 20-30-40 years ago world had been based on “dynamic resources world model” – we consume what is “naturally” available at given time of the year, we have bright light when there is day, we buy goods when old ones are worn out….

Our top chefs are actually bringing the dynamic resources world back to food – they emphasize increasingly how we should cook according to our own natural year rotation, from local ingredients.

Solar and wind energy are examples of the same in technology.

Peculiar thought but instead of building ever bigger farms of servers to serve increasing static demand, could we go towards dynamic model eg by Sami Pekkola’s legendary “pick a number for internet service queue” idea – “Our service if powered with solar only - We will service you when resources are available”.

More seriously, looking forward in seeing more companies who make profitable business from being limited, sustainable, dynamic. Might also fit to emerging new work force’s philosophy “do work to able to live, not live for work”?

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Socialistic Finland.... because of duopoly

2011-04-14T18:48:00.005+03:00

An old thought came into my mind from last summer based on observing how absurdly food retail works outside of capital (and Turku, Tampere, Oulu) area in Finland.

K- and S-groups (having now about 80% of the market) have driven large parts of Finland practically to equivalent of old Soviet Union when it comes to food – totally centralized “5 year planning” with no power for individual to effect on supply and shortage of choices (the same everywhere, with not a single “drop” of locality). Centralized production, increasingly producing what people do not want, not really interested if the chain is really sustainable.

The food capitalists did it with “competition” and money what the communist did not manage force upon us :D

The ball is now in Evira and government to really enable the selling local food (all stuff) and let the competition start again.

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Home laboratory observations leading to not voting for Kokoomus anymore beacuse of Henna Virkkunen...

2011-04-14T18:48:00.003+03:00

There’s an increasing worry about the number of Finnish youth dropping out of “wagon” after compulsory schooling – no education, no jobs. I heard number 30 000 in the morning YLE1. I am not sure what the stats say but I believe that group is increasingly consisting of boys.

I have now seen how my two older boys have been going through the “new” course based upper comprehensive school (classes 7-9) instead of the old half year terms based schooling which I myself had. I can only say that I am convinced that the courses based system really has an impact to drive increasing number of boys to to “not experiencing success”-zone. Since all courses are counted for total grades, boys end up having lower grades since they mature later.

Now Henna (and/or the ladies in Opetuministeriö) seems to be showing boys the door by driving this development even further – there is less and less moments for pulling the act together.

Actually, I am not sure if anyone else has REALLY benefitted of this, except the school book publishers – are there REALLY sensible arguments why Otto’s and Vili’s (having a 3km distance between their schools) practically all schools books are different?? 2 x 6 x in average 120€ per year revenue for publishers yes…

(OK –Pisa results are great, but I think my (and previous) generation is doing quite OK with just one set of books).

Typical tuomobs but anyways simply beacuse of what Henna Virkkunen stands for, my vote goes this time to some other party.

I wish someone would turn the education “wagon” for more boys friendly direction, kill the current courses based system, kill the school book business, stop the evident/looming crisis when we have lots of young men not on board on the society.

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...hhhhm

2011-04-14T18:48:00.001+03:00

So nice that businesses like Erottajan Suutari/Sinatron Oy still exists… 6 hours after fetching the beautifully repaired and polished (!) shoes, I still smile.

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Koli... beautifull

2011-03-28T23:40:00.001+03:00

...but cold.

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Prättälä!

2011-03-24T17:52:00.001+02:00

Really absolutely world class musician... great gig!

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Why would I EVER vote these...?

2011-03-24T17:40:00.001+02:00

Christina Gestrin, Soili Haverinen, Marika Niemi ... if these election candidates do give a shit about common & community “rules” (eg do not attach any materials to community lighting systems), why would I ever vote for them. Typical “me first”-persons.

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101th time.. winter magic to be remembered

2011-01-29T12:06:00.001+02:00

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First ever?

2011-01-29T11:48:00.001+02:00

Valtteri's new piparkakku (ginger bread) approach - Snake Piparkakku.

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Fabulous beer...

2011-01-29T11:46:00.001+02:00

Sierra Nevada Northern Hemisphere Harvest in Kaisaniemen Kaisla...

Another great "new" beer is Finnish Blackdoor HODA - Hop Over Dose Ale

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Fobba and other Helsinki's virtual community policemen

2011-01-29T11:23:00.001+02:00

Great to see authorities taking pretty much exactly the right approach towards "virtualization of life" ... Helsinki Police has been patrolling aka serving people in web (Facebook, IRC Gallery) since 2008. In average 20 various cases per week currently, and 2010 in total over 1000 sexual abuse (or someone trying to do one) cases was reported to police through their virtual community police force. Easy access (in the same environment where all friends are and big part of communication takes place) brings the police as close as they ever can?

I would have expected most of companies to do this virtualization of their services earlier than authorities.. instead of just starting to use socialized media as another push message channel.

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Apple ... consumers responsibility

2011-01-28T23:58:00.003+02:00

I find it actually really quite odd, even a bit scary, that people do not require similar kind of business ethics and fairness from Apple that they require from practically all other consumer brands.

Yes – Apple products are forerunners in usability and as “things” they are pleasing. But, as Apple clearly aims for monopoly, complete control of content/censorship, unjustified role/% in content value chain and utter disrespect of IPR principles…. well what can one say - “We build the monster ourselves”? Apple = National Socialist Party of 21^st century of consumers.

I hope others get their products in par, soon.

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Is that where it is best used?

2011-01-28T23:33:00.002+02:00

90M€ of tax payers' money used for a 500m tunnel … why? To get few new block of flats and a bit more peace for those few hundred living next to current road?

Temped to say that the only/main reason is lobbing from construction companies.

Well whatever… not the wisest way of using 90M€ when state/cities are saving in education, health care, … everything.

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Winter magic .... for the 100th time

2011-01-28T23:32:00.001+02:00

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A car?

2011-01-28T23:30:00.001+02:00

yes ... it is a car. Somebody’s Volv0 XC60 actually.

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UMO... ultimate mobile orchestra?

2010-12-18T20:45:00.001+02:00

Very nice concert in very nice church of Kotka with very nice soloist Johanna Kurkela and alwats amazingly great UMO.

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Loyal Amex customer .... propably no more

2010-12-14T22:54:00.001+02:00

An American Express loyal customer for quite some time, paying 170€ per year for this, and channeling pretty much all spending through Amex.

So far just a “bit” pissed off for receiving now and then an offer to join Amex for free/extra points. Just bad CRM?

Now seeing where/how Amex uses the profits…. I will be an ex customer as of 3/2011.

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Super fast coming of real winter....

2010-12-09T23:56:00.001+02:00

05.12. barely 10-15cm of snow

08.12 yep .. SNOW is here

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Weekend with many faces...

2010-12-06T23:43:00.001+02:00

Great company of Antti, high-end HiFi, BBQ in snow, funerals, Teekkaritorvi 40y celebrations, LPs/Sauna/chatting with Aija and Pekka....

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Season start... no luck, but slide

2010-12-06T23:35:00.001+02:00

Season started 04.12. ... with shortest ever session. No grip on ice :(

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Pihtipudas rhapsody... again

2010-11-11T20:41:00.001+02:00

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And they made sand out of my childhood's exciting, legendary "Mountain"...

2010-11-11T20:34:00.001+02:00

I used to wander in a state owned "Aarnimetsä" in Pihtipudas. My specific favourite was a rocky hill with a forest fire watch tower.... but now it's half gone :(

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Just cannot understand it....

2010-11-11T20:25:00.001+02:00

I live in 30 household complex.... we have 3 boxes reserved for household garbage - these boxes are emptied once per week. Some brilliant individual decided to get rid of his/her old sofa filling all 3 garbage boxes. 29 other households had to keep their garbage somewhere else for few days... what a f--khead. I admit I was utterly pissed. Still am after 3 weeks.

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Nuuksio.... too close?

2010-11-11T20:13:00.001+02:00

Nuuksio is always a pleasure... and so close that it experiences the same faith than all the other attractions capital area would offer for you but you seldom go since they are too close?

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Positive surprises in empty Helsinki night

2010-11-11T20:01:00.001+02:00

Had a dinner with Markus in La Table .... which was nice. On the way home we decided to check out Le Bonk - Lenni Kalle Taipale et al were doing cover night. Brilliant stuff really - especially fantastic version from Lovely Day - I wish that particular version we heard would be available as recording. Actually very sad that I cannot hear it anymore... it's gone now.

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Pihtipudas oh Pihtipudas...

2010-09-30T23:30:00.001+03:00

Right from the first kilometers of the 450km long journey, to the late evening arriving moments (that silence!), to the "going to bed after very late sauna, supper, chat and a cold beer… in total silence), to a gorgeous awakening in the morning, and if lucky that windsurf (like this time…hhhmm: http://www.sports-tracker.com/#/workout/tsihvola/divihe939k3hjni5 40km back and forth sometimes nicely powered with my 9.5m2 rig)... a real, unique pleasure, unmatced in my small universe…

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Degrowth

2010-09-30T22:50:00.001+03:00

World... hear hear Peter Victor.

Very unfortunately we won't - humanity is deemed to change course only through major crisis?

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comedy reaching the TV info text

2010-09-21T22:34:00.001+03:00

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Perfect home for a worm

2010-09-20T11:35:00.001+03:00

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Nice idea... but

2010-09-07T11:02:00.001+03:00

Nice idea to provide web based branded design tools for different brands. If the tools work as bad as Vividworks designwiz seems to work currently, it can turn out to be a very bad service/consumer experience for the brand itself. In this case Muurame – hopelessly slow and crashing 3 time in a row does not really encourage me as customer to give it a 4^th try…

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N97 mini pics

2010-08-29T22:29:00.001+03:00

N97 mini has pretty good quality in good conditions…

http://www.merikeskusvellamo.fi/

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Thunder...

2010-08-09T09:08:00.001+03:00

Now it would not be nice to be on the sea when this happens.... last night’s thunderstorm in my favorite windmeter

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Peace... after Sauna

2010-08-03T22:14:00.001+03:00

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Wellamo in Kotka

2010-08-03T20:19:00.003+03:00

> We visited shortly Kotkan Meripäivät, and had guided tour in Vellamo - great building. Beautiful day ;o)

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Kukkakärpänen (flowerflt) My favorite "beast"

2010-08-03T20:19:00.001+03:00

> ...ever so curiuous, elegant flyer, and it's just gotta be friendly too - Kukkakärpänen

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hmmmagnifigant

2010-07-29T20:53:00.001+03:00

... Very nice new friends: Amerikaans Gedroophopt met Amarillo by De Molen and Te Kairanga Runholder Pinot Noir.
Free day 2morrow dedicated 4 windsurf and wild innovation.

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Untitled

2010-06-29T16:32:00.001+03:00

Dance of ”Surviaiset” before coming rain....

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That is the spirit

2010-06-29T12:32:00.001+03:00

Laughing out loud thinking who got the idea and under what circumstances, but makes you really admire that Google has still the balls to do crazy things – adding Vuvuzela sound button into Youtube is so nicely wildly irrational, and I can literally hear what would have been the response if one would have proposed that in some other big company. Small proof that Google is very much alive when so many big corporate are dead in heart.

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Design "Deja Vu"

2010-05-19T14:21:00.001+03:00

Pertti has an old Nokia GPS accessory from 2007 … and pointed out the interesting design resemblance to the coming Apple design.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yahooeditorspicks/galleries/72157623855495574

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Renault ZE....

2010-05-19T12:42:00.001+03:00

Pretty interesting approach for “fuelling” electric cars! Renault Z.E. Quickdrop-stations… of course (too) huge challenge to roll out (=standardize) but anyway interesting approach

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Cool stuff from TripSay.com...

2010-05-16T13:14:00.001+03:00

Great new hotel search from gentlemen of TripSay… http://www.tripsay.com/hotels/helsinki

Hyvä äijät!

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Artisti maksaa.... Artist pays it all.

2010-05-11T11:19:00.001+03:00

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Last snowman...

2010-05-10T13:41:00.001+03:00

> Somebody's sympathetic creation aside jogging
track... last snowman standing size XXXXXXS

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One day they will wonder...?

2010-05-10T13:39:00.001+03:00

A discussion happening in unfortunately not so distant future: “Now let me get this straight ? They used all that oil and energy to first dig out and process all that precious metal to be shipped around the world and then used it for packing tiny pieces of fish (which they knew they knew they were driving to extinction), and then shipped it back/around the globe to be sold with an euro? WTF where they thinking of?” It’s there, we buy it. That is a sin.

Wonder what is a real price tag (total, not just moneywise) for such an item? 65g of tuna packed in a separate can and shipped here and there around the globe…

Last can of tuna I ever buy.

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Googlebot, oi! ...

2010-04-30T09:05:00.001+03:00

What cha doing? Indexing? Wha-at?

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MySpace - WTF?

2010-04-20T21:12:00.001+03:00

I just tried checking what’s going on in MySpace (usual nothing in my case)…. and found out that I cannot get through an additional forced profiling (“nice”) of sign-in without clicking a banner?? Wau - that is effective advertising.

Probably because of Flock, but funny anyways.

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Insane.... ly beautiful - Windsurfing in Jaws

2010-04-19T17:38:00.001+03:00

I watched this at least 15 times …. amazing – and very depressive at the same time ;o)

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Awsome pictures

2010-04-15T17:17:00.001+03:00

Awsome pictures .... and quite many more in Flickr. Once again social media way outplays "official media" in bringing an event into me personally.

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Eruption in Eyjafjallajökull

2010-04-15T17:10:00.001+03:00

Eruption in Eyjafjallajökull
Originally uploaded by Gunnar Gestur

Awsome picture .... and quite many more in Flickr. Yet again social media way outplays "official media" in bringing the event into me personally

hhhmmmsterdam...

2010-03-29T22:14:00.001+03:00

Amsterdam - what a nice place....

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Change back to good old times required?

2010-03-29T21:44:00.001+03:00

I visited mom in Lahti during the weekend. She made me (eggs and bacon in the morning ;o) and) some smoothie …with the machine we’ve had forever in the family. Forever equals in this case since 1953. And it still runs perfectly. 57 years old, fully working, actively used, household machine!

I think we do not only need a) start saving energy, b) be more energy efficient but we really also need c) change the various business logics so that they somehow support sustainability. Now, everything is optimized for the combination of the product quality for marketing purposes, re-sales frequency and service business. New business model would be needed that it makes good business sense to create products like mom’s super machine … the longer products are used the more me as consumer and the manufacturer get money … taxes back? Longer lasting products are taxed less?

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Ruokangas » The Making of Ruokangas.com

2010-03-12T12:28:00.001+02:00

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Brilliant stuff by Junnu and Java!

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Spring day in Kaivari

2010-03-07T23:17:00.001+02:00

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Using the empry streets...

2010-03-07T23:16:00.001+02:00

The Denver boys using the empty streets… with “style” ;o)

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Make the banner bigger

2010-03-05T10:31:00.001+02:00

Well “theoretically” it of course could be bigger…. to make it even more effective ;o)

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Crested Butte... and snow snow snow

2010-02-22T21:58:00.001+02:00

... so they did it

2010-01-28T10:35:00.001+02:00

Google has now as of today “realtime” search result from social network(s) also….

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and so its goes... typical

2010-01-25T10:44:00.001+02:00

Getting weaker and weaker everyday L

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3 little piggies and Valtteri's version of Muumi

2010-01-23T14:56:00.001+02:00

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That's what I have thought of ....

2010-01-22T19:34:00.001+02:00

Bubble of over-production of pretty much everything (created and subsidized by stock exchange profit making process combined in local national goals in global competition situation) did still not pop… thanks to few “Trillion”€ pumped into the global economy…. and it will unfortunately still need to pop before things get better for real. Both in terms of economy and in terms of ecology.

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Ridgeway ROB helps..

2010-01-22T19:21:00.001+02:00

When the wind causes worries 4 days ahead, new happy beer surprises comfort: very nice smoky organic beer from Ridgeway….

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"Aforismi"

2010-01-20T14:57:00.001+02:00

Rahan käyttäminen eksessiivissä mitoissa ydintarpeitten kannalta tarpeettomaan on onnellisen arkipäivän ryhtiä antavan tuskan oivaltamista vaativa salaisuus...

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Misleading :(

2010-01-20T10:45:00.001+02:00

I am getting more and more scared when Otto is now approaching his 18^th year… Personally I think this kind of campaigning is sort of disgusting i.e. completely misleading way of marketing “something”. Your mind really has to work to understand that this a shit expensive quiz service (rip off) you are signing into and not to something related to skiing. I hope this kind of marketing and services like “Pikavippi” would be banned – many young person will burn themselves with services like these.