Posts tagged “europe”

What’s the value in immediacy?

I’ve been battling with a problem (one must put issues in relative perspective with all the tragedies in China and Myanmar atm) in the recent days. As some may know, I’m doing a motorcycle trip through Europe in July. I want to be able to track my whereabouts and shoot some video and then post [...]

European Tour 2008 – first draft

View Larger Map Above is the first draft of my coming summer’s motorcycling trip. I’m planning to do a 2 week (approx.) trip through Europe. The total lenght of this trip is about 5200km and it starts and ends in Rostock. The southernmost tip of the trip is a few hundred kilometres below Barcelona. I’m [...]

LeWeb3 Day 1

That’s Hans Rosling going on about how we destroy our planet. He’s one of my new heroes :) The other two are definitely Kevin Rose and Evan Williams – two guys who have done incredible things online in terms of social web. It’s 3.19 am, been awake for almost 24 hours, it’s time to get [...]

Paris reporting

I’m in Paris at the moment, taking it easy in my hotel room near Porte de la Chapelle metro station. The weather in Paris is equally drastic as it is in Finland and therefore it isn’t very tempting. Nevertheless, I managed to do quite a bit of walking without an umbrella :) (and mind you, [...]

GPS Motorcycle diaries

I haven’t been able to get too much sleep this week as I’ve been spending my time with Google Earth v4. I’ve been intrigued with it as it renderes the topology of the landscape as well as cool new features that make sharing information a lot more easier. With this in mind I’ve been planning [...]