Monthly Archives: January 2007

S60 3rd edition / Nokia N80 – feelings after a year

I’ve now used a Nokia N80 for almost a year. While I noted some flaws in the beginning, some other annoyances have since surfaced as time has gone by. So here’s a new list of what’s good and what’s not … Continue reading

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Sunday news commentary

I’ve found that newspapers are rarely really newspapers anymore, but I still like to read especially the Sunday paper carefully. The newspaper of choice over here is Helsingin Sanomat, though I do miss Boston Globe or NY Times. Anyway, a … Continue reading

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Tenerife photos + travelog

As one would’ve guessed, I took a lot (a lot) of photos during our vacation; it took a while to figure out what would make a good selection to put here. So, some photos and a short travelog is here … Continue reading

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Book reviews: The Things They Carried, Princess, Ten Thousand Sorrows

Over the recent winter vacation, I had some time to read a few books – a couple of biographies (one auto-, one facilitated) and a much-praised Vietnam novel. This is a short review of them. The Things They Carried by … Continue reading

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Tenerife restaurant reviews

We recently spent a couple of weeks in northern Tenerife – more on that later at least in terms of photos, but there’s one subject that unfortunately deserves a special mention: food. A number of websites and visitors praised the … Continue reading

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