got out of bed at 0540ish, out and about just after 0630. sunrise at 0700, bought bread at 0745, hullut päivät at 0800. not a bad way to spend a saturday morning.

i should be sleeping, but im getting distracted.

still getting momentary shocks when i see my age on things like my profile page on flickr. does not compute.
arcade fire cancelled the gig the other day, but i watched samurai jack instead. which was nice.
im getting slightly obsessed (emphasis on ’slightly’) on mapping routes i take using my phone and a gps module. more on this later.
the pixelache festival captured my attention a few hours ago. it starts tomorrow (friday).
my mp3 collection is boring me.
rent is increasing by 2%
crash boom bang, why do certain people only make noise from 0100 onwards? (i.e. now)
anyone know who got me a soundi subscription? im baffled.
news about a new tram line to laajasalo occupied me for far too long today. more on this later.

outside gate a27 in kastrup, copenhagen this morning. i was heard to audibly gasp a few moments before i took this when i walked into this section for the first time. nothing overly spectacular, just wasnt expected.

in copenhagen at the moment, here until tomorrow morning. photos being uploaded in random order to my flickr photostream but here is the full set in proper order (well all pics there soon).

in 2000 i inter-railed. i met an austrian girl in stockholms main train station as i was finishing up my few weeks. i told her about sigur rós and we swapped email addresses. a while later when sigur rós played in vienna the concert was recorded by austrian radio and broadcast. she taped it off the radio and sent the tape to me. as an introduction to the concert there was a simple piece of music played over the pa system. it was “für alina” by the estonian composer arvo pärt.

at one stage in this piece there was a noise by an audience member - i listened to it many many times trying to see if it was what i thought it was - a baby crying. so here i am now almost seven years later listening to the same song (this time a proper version) and i miss that little baby, keep expecting it to interrupt the delicate silence between the notes of the piano.

i took this picture back in january, just resized the original down before uploading it. the resized file sits on my hard drive and has the date time info of 2007.03.16 - 15:41. like it when things like that happen.

currently downloading the latest firmware for my phone. i was looking at my operators website just now and i see that my ongoing phone activity for the month has already the current download in the list. i noticed aswell that so far this month (12 days) i have downloaded 220mb or so on my mobile phone - thats in jaiku traffic, internet, shozu/flickr uploading and the afore mentioned firmware update. the cost for all this is 9,95euros (that includes unlimited data transfer at 128kbs, 1000sms and 1000mms).

the same data transfer on an equivilant phone (monthly bill on o2) in ireland would be 1100€ (they charge 5€ per 1mb transfer). (vodafone works out at 425€ for 225mb transfer). is there something i am missing?

greenpeace finland have a new ad about global warming and the current general election campaign here. pretty intense stuff. watch here.

translation of on-screen text:
jos ilmastonmuutosta ei pysäytetä, tulvat lisääntyvät ja merenpinta nousee
(if the athmospheric changes dont stop, floods will multiply and the sea level will rise)

mitä ehdokkasi aikoo tehdö seuraavien sukupolvien hyväksi?
(what does your candidate plan to do for the good of following generations?)

update: yle story about reaction to the ad.

mmmm contrails and strange light.

spent the last hour going through my loved songs on last.fm looking for “bells” by electrelane (who support arcade fire in a few weeks in copenhagen woo!).
just sold three pictures!.
been offered a chance to perhaps design a website! will say more when its confirmed!.
the weather is warm here, so all the snow is melting. im not getting too hyped up about it all as it will snow in april again most likely.
gonna get batch one of insurances tomorrow.
going to the irish embassy for drinks and ferrero roche for st. patricks day.
life is getting better.