Uninvited smokescreen & other random thoughts

Hey Russia, get a clue!

There have been forest fires in Russia for the past weeks. That’s more or less an annual occurance, but this year there are many fires and the wind is blowing all the smoke directly at Finland. Like yesterday, the air quality in downtown Helsinki was worse than when there was a big fire right in downtown some months ago.

The ineptitude of the country to control their fires is nothing short of amazing. The country that now boasts the most expensive city in the world should afford to put out a couple of fires. They should also have the capacity. In case they don’t have either, Finland’s offered help – but they don’t want it, leaving us to only conclude that it’s arrogance, negligence or some other stupid thing that’s preventing them from acting. Meanwhile, we’re suffocating. I wish the wind would blow all the smoke directly on top of St Petersburg or Moscow, then we might see some action.

More Trivial Research

YLE was reporting about a study made by some Finnish researchers on how some species will not be able to migrate along with the changing climate. How the heck is this news? I would consider it crystal clear that not all species will be able to migrate with fast-changing climate. And now they’re saying that this migration “may not be axiomatic”. WTF?! It never was that to begin with.

The worst beach ever

Here’s a small photo (taken from a newspaper) of a beach in China. Horrible. That’s so much worse than the worst parts of Italy or Spain which I thought were as bad as beaches get in terms of crowds.

DNA whines that non-existent services aren’t used

Some time ago, DNA was quoted saying that they’re to some extent disappointed with how much (well, little) people are using the 3G services.

What 3G services? The video call which was doomed to begin with? What other 3G services do they have exactly that would be worth using? Elisa and TeliaSonera were also some time ago emphasizing that now that the price war is over, they will focus on service development. Yeah? With Elisa not even having PoC out yet, I’m not holding my breath on any new exciting services emerging from the operator domain.. A free hint to the operators: either put your money where your mouth is or move aside and let the Internet take over.