computer slowly but surely dying. hard disk one (c + d drives) had some big error 2 weeks ago that knocked out some of my mp3s. hard disk two (e drive) went last night – took some sr concert recordings. not too many though. every time i boot into it now i get an error message, chkdsk, and the ever present recovered file dirs. strange how the same thing is happening to two seperate drives. anyhoo – backed up nearly everything this morning onto a new external hd. life is constantly eventful.

ah – summer has arrived and life is good. random discoveries on the internets make it a little bit better

sporalogy is a jocular pseudoscience invented by the finnish professor and skeptic nils mustelin in the 1980s as a parody of astrology. sporalogy is the art or science of determining a person’s fate from the positions that the helsinki city transport’s trams were in at the moment of the person’s birth. this is a direct analogy to, or parody of, determining a person’s fate from the position of the planets and the constellations. after all, claims mustelin, the trams in helsinkiare so much nearer the person in question, so surely they have a greater effect than the distant planets and stars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sporalogy

makasiinit (scheduled for demolition on monday, and the scene of “rioting” last week) went up in flames this evening here in helsinki. well, half of it did (the half closest to kiasma). the centre was crazy, full of thousands of people watching on – moving their positions depending on the wind direction. we saw one or two people crying, lots of people looking on and taking pictures, and a few teenagers being annoying and funny (one held up a sausage to the flames (he was 20m from them) – then a few hours later went through the crowd offering “the last sausage roasted on the heat of makasiinit as it went up in flames” (perhaps something lost in translation)).

anyway – lets see how this all plays out over the next few days – in the mean time here are the pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dw/sets/72057594126455333/

extra: i was thinking last night, perhaps because part of makasiinit is now a crime scene, maybe the wont demolish it in 48hours to give them time to do investigations etc. *waits for english translations on finnish news sites*

the hunt is over! we found it today. not that i ever go shopping. but still. i should soon.