Posts tagged “finland”
Finland Should Prepare Itself For The Long Tail Of Companies
So, I decided to blog about the second issue that has been on my mind recently (regarding previous blog post). Not the lightest of things for a Friday evening blog post though. I’ve been thinking about the structure of the Finnish economy for a while and it did actually surprise me a bit that we’re [...]
Chez Dominique Goes Savonlinna
This is pretty interesting – Chez Dominique, one of the gourmet restaurants in Helsinki will be going on a road trip to the unofficial summer capital of Finland – Savonlinna (and those are the restaurant founder’s Hans Välimäki’s words) for a week in July. Välimäki says that they have been invited to the festival plenty [...]
Skiing trip
I finished a day’s work outside with a 5km skiing trip with my sister and mother. A calm 45 minute trip around Pöllänsaari, where our summer cottage is located. Being the geek that I am – I used Nokia Sports Tracker to track the route and later uploaded it to Google Maps with a photo [...]
Iron Butt Ride – SS1000
Nokia Nseries Widget Iron Butt Ride In order to view the Nokia Nseries Widget you need JavaScript and Flash Player 9+ support If all goes well, you can follow my progress here live as I ride the SS1000 Iron Butt Ride. If not, I will be uploading the KML file later on and you can [...]
Blame internet and outdated business models for the coverage of Kanerva’s SMS mess
Finnish citizens have had to cope with a tremendeous amount of low quality journalism this past week. Our foreign minister, Mr. Ilkka Kanerva, had sent some text messages to a female dancer who then ran off to the yellow press to release them to public scrutiny. Even the (normally) highly respected Helsingin Sanomat fell in [...]