Jorma Ollila, non-executive chairman of Shell’s board of directors and chairman of Nokia’s board of directors, exercises 4 times a week. He has a simple, but effective personal exercise plan that he goes through 4 times a week. This includes 60-70 pushups, 150-350 abs as well as multiple other movements. Nokia’s executive board members exercise every friday morning together and have been doing so since 1999.
Impressive. Read the whole article on this (in Finnish) here and check out Ollila’s training program here. With that in mind, I think I’ll pack my gym gear for an early training session.
I wrote quite a lengthy post on this and that but somehow managed to hit Ctrl-W and alas…gone! So here’s my 2c on the links I was suppose to post:
-Free Wifi routers through FON - act fast and order yours before 24.12.
-Herkkusia.com - a new finnish link aggregator, perhaps the classiest with an interesting selection of categories available.
-Word-of-mouth: Do visit Restaurant Belge if you’re in Helsinki, they offer good food, beautiful service and a relatively good choice of beers. (Paid message? Hardly - just bribed.) :-)
…or so wrote Shakespeare about love. I love travelling and I have far too long ignored this. Thus, I decided to book tickets to London from the 5th of December till the 10th. It’s nice to get out of Finland a bit and do some (even though short term) travelling. London’s a great place, not too far from Finland, to see quite a bit of different things.
I realised I’ve worked pretty much 15 months with just over 10 days off from work. Time for a short holiday and give my brain a little rest. I haven’t planned a lot for it as I really want to have a stressfree vacation and do things spontaneously.
I love work, but when you begin to lose the edge in creativity, it’s definitely time to rest a bit :)
Few days ago I visited a shoe store with a friend of mine as she was picking up her shoes from repair. As my friend tried a few different shoes on while waiting, she was wondering to me how the shoes would look on her with a skirt. (Beats me! Don’t girls always look good in good shoes?!) The sales woman heard this as she came out from the back office and pointed out that she had been thinking of getting some different size jeans and skirts for women to wear when trying on different shoes.
She definitely should do it as that’s definitely pushing the last mile towards the customer and replicating the end use of the product.
I spotted a new social music networking site - iLike.com through TechCrunch. Looks interesting at first, but just how easy is it to be a second comer in this market?
I mean last.fm recommends music based on your taste of listening, just as iLike does. However there’s a small problem here. It’s a lot easier to switch to another social networking site and get a few of your friends to follow, but it’s a totally different story to transfer your entire music history to another service (and I’m sure last.fm isn’t developing an export function at the moment!). Also, to get the benefit of the service - you have to transfer your friends and their music history as well!
I still think last.fm is a great service and continue to use it. Just haven’t found the commercial aspects of it interesting enough to pay for the service.
There’s an awesome bar in central Helsinki called the Aussie Bar. The picture attached to this post is one of their advertising posters they posted around Helsinki when they opened. I’ve been hanging out there a few times before as well as yesterday - needless to say, we had a blast. The atmosphere in there is very much down under and probably as close to Oz you can get without taking a Qantas flight to Australia. An interesting detail is the bar staff, they’re all original Aussies, except for the other owner who’s a Kiwi. They’ve got a big selection of Australian beers and wines, although they did lack Carlton Draught which is one of my favorite beers from down under.
If I was a bar critic, I’d give this bar a full five stars.
It was a good way to start the day by listening to Mamas and Papas’ California Dreaming. It was raining cats and dogs yesterday in Helsinki, when pretty much elsewhere in Finland it was snowing. A friend just confirmed from Lappeenranta, that it has snowed about 30cm over the night and a slightly less in Savonlinna, according to another friend. On days like these I really wish I was somewhere warm…
“California dreamin
On such a winters day”
There’s an awesome bar in central Helsinki called the