Sunday, May 31, 2009

Reason for excitement

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(Also posted on all my major blogs.) Many of you have emailed me to ask why I was so excited with the software "Cooliris". There a...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

Rarely am I so excited

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Also posted on the Seventh Heaven Blog, Kooler Talk Blog, CHAFF Blog and the Oulu Best Buy Blog.) Rarely am I excited about new computer sof...
Saturday, May 23, 2009

Watching a football match in Sweden

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Thursday was a holiday in Finland - called Hellatorstai, which is the equivalent of the Pentacost, the day the disciples of Jesus are suppos...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Vesaisentie Garden - Work in progress

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Step out of the front door in Vesaisentie and you are greeted by this garden. Small and cosy, but it is still a work in progress. Everything...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Unbelievably Clean!

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(Also posted on the Oulu Brest Buy Blog and the CHAFF Blog.) A friend of mine had let his mother's apartment to a couple of Finnish stud...

Oulu Cricket Club (OCC) formed

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(Also posted on the Seventh Heaven Blog.) Finally it has happened. Three enterprising cricket enthusiasts in Oulu, one Finn (Joose Kankare) ...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

I was certainly wrong

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(Also posted on Jacob's Politics and the Kooler Talk Blogs.) I now realise how divorced I am from Indian Politics and especially the men...
Friday, May 15, 2009

The experience of our lifetime

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(Also posted on the Seventh Heaven and the Kooler Talk Blog.) I just loved this email I received from 49er Dawn Brown. It sums up our experi...
Thursday, May 14, 2009

Now starts the real hard work

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Oh! Not for me!! Annikki has started in real earnest to set out the Vesaisentie garden with her vision. First was the cleaning of the back f...

My suspicions now fully confirmed

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(Also posted on Jacob's Politics Blog.) Dennis Kucinch and his wife Elizabeth. When everybody was raving about Obama for President, I ke...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Great Wall of Vesaisentie

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Yesterday, when I got home, Annikki had been hard at work clearing the mess at the bottom of the garden. Years of rotting grass and leaves w...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

Am I disappointed?

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(Also posted on the Kooler Talk Blog.) Being Sunday night, I watched the Fareed Zakaria GPS programme on CNN. Shashi Tharoor, fellow Stephan...
Saturday, May 09, 2009

Moving things around

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I have found that moving my office furniture around occasionally drives a new sense of approach to work life. I decided to shift my office a...
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Driving 1100 km on the same day

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(Also on the Seventh Heaven and Kooler Talk Blogs.) After a hectic weekend, when I went to Tampere with Sunil, in a van taking materials to...
Sunday, May 03, 2009

Tom Tom vs Grammin

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Another trip to Tampere and Helsinki. This time I had two Global Positioning System (GPS) Navigators. The first was a super-duper one called...
Friday, May 01, 2009

Off to Tampere

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No blogging as I am off to Tampere to equip four new houses, sort out some problems, probably make a quick trip to Helsinki and get back wel...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Using a GPS Navigator - Good or Bad Development?

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Yesterday I went to south Finland to unknown territory. I borrowed Sunil's Global Positioning System (GPS) Navigator. It is not an expen...
Sunday, April 26, 2009

"Mysore Matthan" Community on Orkut

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I was very pleasantly surprised to receive an email from Helena (Maria) Matthan, granddaughter of the late Kuriyan Matthan, one of my very b...

What is talent?

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(Also posted on Seventh Heaven and Kooler Talk Blogs.) I usually do not have much time for TV except to throw off my shoes, put my feet up, ...
Saturday, April 25, 2009

Guess what? I am not the only one who has been skiving!

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I took a look around a few of my regular blog bookmarks - after a long recess. What did I find? I am not the only one who has been skiving. ...