Monthly Archives: February 2007

Film strikes back

Posted on Feb 24, 2007 by sim

For the past two weeks, I’ve spent nearly every waking moment that I’ve been at home scanning photos. I borrowed a great film scanner from our companys photo club with the idea of finally scanning all of my old slides … Continue reading →

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Purpose-oriented misleading attempts

Posted on Feb 20, 2007 by sim

I know I’ve probably talked about climate change ad nauseum, but VATT (The Government Institute for Economic Research in Finland) recently contributed what must’ve been the most useless study if not ever, at least this year. They state that the … Continue reading →

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Being a foreigner in ones own country

Posted on Feb 18, 2007 by sim

I’ve always been quick to adapt to different surroundings and different places. I can call a hotel “home” after spending two nights there. I make it a point to learn my way around and try to blend in to some … Continue reading →

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Random thoughts of the day #8

Posted on Feb 16, 2007 by sim

The first couple of items are rants about recent news, reading which seems to get more and more aggravating. Finland still head in the sand And that’s putting is as politely as I can right now. The anger stems from … Continue reading →

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User-created content = exploitable content?

Posted on Feb 12, 2007 by sim

Web 2.0, conversational media, user-created content and all that are already old news. However, it’s only in the past year or so that the Finnish “mainstream” media has awoken to the existence of blogs, user-created content and all that. Lately, … Continue reading →

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