Winter is here
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It’s somewhat unusual these days for the southern Finland to get any kind of permanent snow this early in the year – but this year we got snow a few days ago and some of it is still hanging around with more promised over the weekend. It’s very unlikely that this snow will last the entire winter, but so far I like it. Makes things a bit lighter; every spring one realizes that the worst thing about the winter is not that it’s cold, but that it’s dark. With the sun setting around 4pm now, there’s precious little daylight left in the following few months – so any additional light, virtual or not, is more than welcome.
Are they lazy or just incompetent?
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How difficult can it be to add a simple DNS entry so that address.com would also work in addition to www.address.com? I mean who needs the www there anyway? Nobody, that’s who. In Finland, Posti has got theirs working, but annoyingly many companies haven’t – try accessing the Bank of Finland via bof.fi and you get nowhere. www.bof.fi, on the other hand, works fine. Webmasters, get your site’s basic accessability in shape!
“3G services” taking off in Finland?
- A couple of days ago, Elisa was bragging on the “incredible rise” in use of 3G services. The irony of the situation is not in the service usage numbers themselves (which, quite frankly, are not all that impressive), but the fact that the “3G services” Matti Vikkula quoted as being the most popular are not 3G services at all! Do services like e-mail, news, weather, maps and all that sound familiar to anyone? Perhaps we’ve seen them in the Internet? TV was the only quoted service that can be considered a “3G service” in any way – and even that’s a stretch.
- I think operators and others working in the industry should take a closer look at the Telco 2.0 Manifesto.
While coming to Finland in Nov, I thought it is the worst time to come here. Surprisingly Winter is not soggy and dark, but bright and white.