Vanishing history
Something today made me really thinking about our history and what it means today. And results are actually little bit scary.
We all have been sitting on the history classes during our school times, reading all more or less interesting stories about ancient Egypt, dark middle ages and horrors of wars. This all has been possible because there has been notes, books, poems, letters left to us to read, to learn, to study.
But what happens today? Something happens, it is posted to Twitter or as Facebook status. Our thoughts are not anymore in the corners of book pages but posted as notes on Facebook or to blog. Everything is more and more just abstract information somewhere and something concrete just doesn't exists anymore. When was last time you have been writing real letter to anyone? Instead of email? Thought so...
Everything is fine as long everything works nicely. But what happens when something closes, goes to bankrupt, huge mistake in administration? Geocities was popular place to put personal webpages and I remember during my school finding there a lots of fan pages from television series and about everything. But last October it was closed down and the result - all pages are gone, disappeared. When someones leaves Facebook, it is nice and a good thing that all content that this person has been uploaded to Facebook is removed as well, but what it really means is that that part of history vanishes. As like that has never happened. All notes and thoughts about events, all photos from anything, all thoughts that has been putted as status, it is all gone. What is left to future generations to study is just nothing.
There is some cultures in the history that we know absolutely nothing, we know that they have existed but who they were, what they did, why they disappeared, nothing. Nothing at all, because they left nothing behind. And what is going to happen to us – same thing, there is not going to be a lot of anything to remember, no photos, no thoughts, no ideas... Modern world can have some downsides also...
Small city photographing
It has been a long time since last time I have just taking my camera with me and just left to somewhere. Way too long... But yesterday I got good enough reason just left Tampere and I ended up in Valkeakoski bus station with my camera; that was my first visit to that city and it was interesting place. There was not so much anything but somehow it felt nice little city after all. But I found it really interesting how all finnish smaller cities that I have been somehow seems so similar, buildings are little bit same looking and same kind and the spirit you get when walking there for the very first time is quite same. They all seems so peaceful nice small cities 
I really should get out from Tampere more often - not just for some nice photos but for some nice experiences too. Specially if they all could be as great and nice as yesterday was... 
Sports were in really big part of Valkeakoski, there was football stadiums everywhere, only the size changed from smaller ones to that big one (where the lightning hit one player few years ago...). The sports seemed to be though the only thing that was bringing maybe some tourist to there, I somehow suspect that it is not so big tourist place...
What would be my photo traveling without the photo from the sunset. This time I was watching sunset on the lake, sitting on the shore and looking over the frozen surface of the lake. The snow on the ice was full of small sparkles of ice and while watching the sunset it was possible to see rainbow on the ice.
First snow
We got finally our first real snowing on friday. On thursday night we got some snow already but it wasn't until friday evening when we got what I have been waiting for - the real snowing. When the air is nothing but falling snowflakes, it is dark, little bit windy and all you can see is snowflakes flickering in the street lights.
It is weird how I always forget during the other seasons - during the summer how I always miss that view. But then when first snowflake is slowly floating towards the ground - it all just comes back to my mind. All the reasons why I still think that winter is the best season. And the best part is when you are on your bicycle and trying to not to fall down... It is not so easy task to do when you have still your old summer tires on the bike... But it was fun
Follow the white line
Last night I got a great idea of going to cycle in the middle of night. When it was dark, windy and it felt like there was almost little bit of rain in the air - in other words just quite nice autumn-like weather. This was my first time cycling in the dark in this autumn and have to say that it was just so great. It has just so different feeling when you are alone in the streets, just trying to follow your headlamp light... And because I was cycling in the middle of night, I was practically all alone there, there was just a few cars in the roads. It was so quiet and nice.
In the middle of my trip I just encountered weird white line in the street that just went somewhere. It was weird because it was painted first in the pavement, then on the street, then it went across the school yard... So what I did - of course I started to follow it... It took a while until I understood that it was the Varala marathon route marking, which was better than good for me because I was actually heading to near to Varala to see nightly view of city. So just following weird white line and I ended up exactly where I wanted But the view wasn't so great than I was thought, it was nice but not so nice. So still searching for a great nightly view from the city... Tips are accepted...
Flying
A little bit over a week ago I made my second flight - when I was flying back to Finland. This time I was also flying with Turkish Airlines - but this time my flight was in the night and in the morning. It was long night and because I am not good at sleeping in new places and flying was just too interesting, so I wasn't sleeping in the plane, just napping a little bit. So when I got home, I was quite sleepy...
But flying at night was nice, and seeing sunrise from the plane - amazing. Unfortunately I wasn't at the window seat so I wasn't able to take photos os that... 
Food was not so good this time, I actually only had two breakfasts. Two times scrambled eggs... Good thing that it was good
Spring?
At the moment weather here in Finland is a little bit weird, at least I feel so. Winter hasn't been so great, a little bit snow but there has been no really cold days at all. And now we are living March which I think as a quite spring month already. I think and like that in March the sun should shine and it should already be nice and warm but with snow still in the ground. But what we have in this year? Snowfall after snowfall. It has been snowing more than in the real winter (i.e. in January or February). It looks more winter than in January. Just weird...
Happy new year 2009!
Happy new year to everyone! This year has been a little bit quieter what comes to my blog postings but hopefully it is going to change next year. At least I really should learn and start iPhone developing, it should been a subject that have a lots of blogging... But while waiting those posting, have a good time with a new year!
About iPhone
Everyone knows that last Friday, 11.7. was once again a historical day. Apple iPhone 3G selling started and luckily for me, also in Finland. Oh yes... I was signed up earlier when our operator was collecting name lists who are interested, I reserved phone as soon as it was possible and on last Friday I was 10am in the store and buying my iPhone. And now I am happy owner of black 16Gb model.
I have been playing it now for few days and I have to say that it is quite close to perfect phone. I have iPod Touch so there was no wow-effect anymore in the UI or operations, but iPhone has everything that Touch was missing, all the time connectivity. Touch was nice but its biggest problem is that it needs Wifi for working, with iPhone, I can access Internet anywhere I want.
But the iPhone mania doesn't end here. Because we are now talking about me the next step was quite expected. In the weekend I was accepted as iPhone Developer (and had to paid for that) and now I am able to develop nice programs for iPhone, test them on the real devices and publish them to App Store (or even sell them). Now all I have to do is just finish my codings and actually make some programs 
Fox and the City
I was just playing a few moments ago when I just happen to raise my sight from monitor to outside and what I saw... In the middle of the city there was a fox running through our yard! That was something that I didn't expect to see. That was actually a first fox I have seen in the wild and it was beautiful animal. Too bad that it was so busy running away that I didn't have a opportunity to take a photo Have to hope that it wasn't only visiting shortly but would come again someday; and this time I will be waiting with my camera...
Jogging
I always start jogging in the spring. I don't why but for some reason I just had to go out and start jogging. But, again for some reason, I'll just leave it during the spring and in the begin of summer I just go jogging very rarely. This year hasn't been exception.
But today I got again inspiration to go jogging and it was nice again. I really should make it a regular habit, it was fun and I think that I should do something else than just bicycle to university and back. And specially now when studies (and working there) has ended I only go there now and then.
Kinda funny thing is that jogging is another way for me to organise my thoughts. In the spring I also wanted to go for a jog when I had too many thoughts in my mind. It isn't exactly the same thing when I go to think in the nature but it is almost as good as wondering in the middle of the forest or looking the sunset on the lake. There is something therapeutical when you try to think too big thoughts and try to jog or run at the same time. And the good thing is that when you get too tired from jogging, you just can't think too much, you are just too tired to think too much.
Well, I had fun with my jog but I still have too many thoughts in my mind that I really need to solve at some point. But luckily I have one wonder less now, finally I know what I am going to do in the summer. One though down, about a million left...
