Edinburgh www2006

I had the privilege of visiting the www2006 conference in Edinburgh with Tero-Markus. New perspectives, new thoughts, old thoughts suddenly visible in new light, new ideas seen eventually in old light (whatever that might mean?).... of course good beer and extremely nice city. A short summary of www2006 conference in Edinburgh.

We actually developped a nice routine - we were at the conference around 9am to hear the openings. Separated to follow different threads. The did some comparisons on what we had heard and first thoughts aroused during the lunch time - had some good laughs too on some issues. At around 5pm we headed to (always a new) pub, got ourselves a pint of (mostly always different) beer, opened our laptops and wrapped the toughts and ideas together into a slideset. We also got one "briliant service idea" (yeah sure !) which indeed still was brialliant in the next morning ...and still is - let's see if something comes out of it.

I had WidSets running in my mobile all the time at the conference, and even though it's our creation I still had a childish internal "wow" when I was listening to a panel about mobile web2.0 - one of the panelists (a gentleman from Vodafone whose name I do not recall) took a picture with his N70 ... I didn't actully see him taking the picture but I noticed it from my Widsets Flickr widget which I had set to monitor tag "www2006" and our system pushed the new pic with that tag to my mobile from that same room taken about Ronald Geisler just standing on the floor. - "Wow ! this actually works as we thought it should !". Nice feeling & worth of remebering.
(This was the pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/torgo/152491341/)
Btw, Flickr seems to now have 1,531 pics of collaborative photgraphing about that conference week - nice cross section from hundreds of individuals.

One memorable incident was that one morning when we had fire alarm at 6am in our hotel... we use the waiting time to get back in hmmm comfortably and that morning we did make it to the conference in time for 9am.

















ps. No offence meant here but there are indeed some similarities in the way that Rowley QC in Fast show and Sir Tim Berners-Lee talk

About Ring III again...

Something is really finally going to happen to the Ring III mess in capital area. This is great and the proposed solution is going to be totally sufficient and functional ... and pretty much exactly as I thought it should be done (even blogged about it ;o) so I cannot help feeling just a bit "proud" that I had just had the same plan cooking (but then again so must have many others also). Great anyway because this can be implemented quite quickly:

Blues Mäysti in NockRock...

We had our "hugely succesfull, once in 15 years" gig in Oulu with Blues Mäysti. Shit loads of fun... don't know if audience had but we surely did. It was fantastic to play together again. Thanks Pekka, Vesku, Jukkis, Kape, Aija, Taisto and Erkki !



Speaking of audience - there was really not too many. When we started to play the semi-final Finland against Czech in the Ice Hockey World Championship was on TV. Pretty much at the same time the Eurovision song contest finals (where Lordi won the thing finally for Finland) was going on - perfect timing for our 45 minutes ;o)

After our gig we spend some good 3 hours listening to other bands and enjoying our after glow. Visited a local Kebab place at around 3am ... one "slightly" drunken guy saw me carrying only a music stand and shouted "Hei - a roudie !" which at that time of the night and in that state of mind gave us a really good laughs.
Finally, at Aija's and Pekka home around 4am... and sweet happy dreams.








Next "gig" will be in Oulu again - 1st of July (2006, not 2021 as one might expect)in Teekkaritalo - we decided to use the celebration of all together five 40th birthdays (all taking place sometimes during last year). A worthy excuse to play again.

WidSets .... live

(long time no blog...) Finally today we went live with our baby www.widsets.com. The last half a year doing it has been extremely exciting and now it's going to be if possible even more exciting to see whether we get users, how many, how quickly, how satisfied they are with the service, how....

Yesterday I spend the late night hours doing my own tuned blog reader widget for this blog. I used my collegue's, Antti Tohmo's widget xml codes as starting point and after some serious trial and error ;o) got it finally ~working. I publish it after some testing on Nokia N80 phone and it is now downloabable from WidSets.com library.

Blues Mäysti next Saturday in Oulu

This coming Saturday we have a gig in Oulu with our university time band Blues Mäysti. Last one was if I remeber correctly back in 1991 and actually in our wedding ;o)

BM has been practising now for few months, and last weekend I joined them in Oulu - oh boy it was good to play again, and it sounded really good.

Waiting eagerly for the happening:

Otto's ollie developping...

Otto developping his ollie at home

One more mother's day stuff to remember

A pirate, 85 years old mom/grandma/charming lady and a musician pianist with capital
M and P !