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Monthly Archives: January 2008

Mountain bike ride in southwest Espoo

Today I got a very nice short off-road ride with Helsinki MTB club MTBCF. The starting place was almost near my home, so I had no excuse of long commute from/to home for not participating. I already rode with MTBCF two times, two or three years back. Once it was their weekly cruise “for beginners”, [...]

Example of bullshit

Last years, I was not much exposed to bullshit at work. In fact, almost not at all. Now I received an email with a brilliant example of the subject. A person has an email signature, which ends like this:

[MyCompany] is one of the global leading suppliers of Information Logistics
Solutions and Product Information. Our customers are [...]

Content Management System: To be or not to be?

Do I want a Content Management System (CMS) for my web site?

My web site is small.
It is not dynamic or interactive (and that’s how I want it to be at this moment. I do not want “dynamic spoon” or “interactive pants”).
It is authored only by me, no cooperation expected in the future neither.

So I probably [...]

Nokia E90: first frustrations!

After publishing first-minute positive impressions about Nokia E90 communicator, first negative ones have not been waiting for long.
Naturally, when changing from one device to another, a user wants to move data from the old one. Mine “old” was Nokia 9500 communicator. Note, it is the natural predecessor model of the same manufacturer. Phones have “data [...]

Nokia E90 communicator

Got a new device, the 2007 Nokia communicator edition, E90:

It is smaller than the previous 9500 communicator (in fact every new Nokia communicator model was smaller than the predecessor).
It has, in addition to what you’d expect from any such device, a built-in GPS receiver.
It is nice for touch. It has very sharp screen – both [...]