Category Archives: Journal

Back to Finland

So I’m back at work and in Finland after a very long summer which took me and my family to Italy and Scotland. It was nice to arrive back after many weeks to the news that Finland is the best place in the world to live. These polls or surveys of best places like the [...]
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Georss and kml

I always loved pointingit, although it seems to have gone the way of many websites into a kind of coma, and have for some time been geotagging any relevant posts I do here. But I  just never was satisfied with a way of showing them that didn’t take an age to load or was just [...]
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Moving Forward Looking Backward

In Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, a Quechua Indian told me that everything one does in life involves looking forward while going backward simultaneously. This I didn’t understand. I said, ‘What do you mean, going backward?’And he said,’Well, it’s very simple. For us, for the Quechua, the past is in front of us. It’s in front [...]
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Blogdesign update

So inspired by a whole host of single column simple sites many on tumblr I updated my site mostly following the daily meh‘s beautiful minimalism. As usual its a hash but doing it got in the way of posting articles so I’ll come back to the rough edges later when I get back into the [...]
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Unsung Hero

And now MPs are feeling morose. Tough! They’ve had plenty of opportunities to do the right thing by parliament and by the people. At every juncture they behaved in the worst possible way. They refused legitimate requests, they wasted public money going to the high court, they delayed publication, they tried to exempt themselves from [...]
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Amsterdam weekend

We spent a weekend a couple of weeks ago in Amsterdam, so I was back in the city I lived in for two years after being away for seven. It struck me being back there again how strong the memories came back. From the pea shooter rat-a-tat of the old bike coming up the street [...]
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Snow Angels

We went up to Levi in Lapland last weekend. Being in the last great European wilderness was breathtaking, it’s a beautiful place a different world away from the bustle of typical human existence. The thing though that will stick most in my mind most was when we were just outside the hotel lobby on the [...]
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Better Mortgage Systems

I have bought houses in Scotland (it’s quite different to England) and in Finland, and thought seriously about buying in Amsterdam when we lived there. Having at least a taste of the different systems and seen the U.S. problems with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae it would be reasonable to go looking for an improved [...]
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Religious Debates

A huge page of links to debates about the existence of god.
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Facebook Fear

Last week I took the plunge and joined facebook although maybe I shouldn’t have ( & it’s strangely addictive!).
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Nimipäivä

It’s our Daughter’s Name Day today (Nimipäivä), something only our neighbour remembered because coming from the U.K. the practice of name days has died out (if it was ever alive!). When I was growing up I associated it with saints days in predominately Catholic countries. It seems I was slightly wrong and at least Orthodox [...]
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Site Change

I have just updated this site with a new theme which I made myself. It’s heavily inspired by Openswitchs’ theme of about six months ago which he moved on from pretty quickly but I really loved. I however saw similar designs by Extralogical, eightface, and binarybonsai all which have in some part inspired me to [...]
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36

36 9 today, thanks to everyone that has sent a card or sms especially the friends with whom I haven’t been in touch with recently.
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Learning Finnish # 2

I’ve started my new course at the university again learning Finnish, trying to do some basic following of the Finnish Media so below is a kind of part Linkdump part commentary on whats out there. A couple of daily free papers you get on your commute are uutislehti100 and metro (which you can download in [...]
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We Have a Winner!

My Friend Nick O’Neill just won the 2007 BD/Zumtobal photography competition with the entry above. You have to take the photos with a disposable camera and then send it in o the organisers before its developed, the results can be great. There were some other good photos there too so its worth checking out all [...]
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Changing Themes

I’m changing the theme of lewism because I wanted a change and to freshen up the look of the site a bit having been using the fauna theme since I moved to wordpress. Also I want to be able to change the look of the site a little bit easier and that means using the [...]
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