a few years back i was sent a link to a website of a polish photographer. every few months i would check in on the site and spend ages hypnotised by the pictures from his travels around the world.

a year or two back i found him on flickr, added him. i dont think ive ever gone to look at his pictures on flickr.

the reflections from the 5th to the 10th second is just astounding & hypnotising. a lovely video

i have a soft spot for “single serving website” (i.e. websites that provide only one single piece of information). a few months back i had an idea for one of those pages – using it as a way for me to learn a few things, i wasnt able to get it to work out but this time i was able to get another idea from 0 to working in a few hours.

it can be difficult to remember exactly when all the super markets close here in helsinki – all sundays in spring they are closed, then they open up – but not the next sunday after that (as its finnish mothers day). then they open up again. can cause some confusion.

a few hours spent messing with phpicalendar, its template, css and javascript files. its not perfect, its not even all that useful to pretty much everyone on the planet – but thats what the internet is all about. ishelsinkiopen.com

i just started to read a book i got for christmas – called “the builders” by frank macdonald and kathy sheridan (of the irish times).

only on page 35 so far, but here are some interesting extracts:

“… successive governments had failed to implement the 1974 keane report on building land, which recommended that all land designated for urban developement should be compulsorily aquired by the local authorities at its existing use value, plus a premium of 25 per cent. as a direct result of this failure, huge profits went into the pockets of everyone who owned land or speculatively aquired it, and the inflated cost was passed onto the homebuyers”

“green party td (teachta dála, member of lower house of the irish parliament) ciarán cuffe estimates that at least 100 of the 800-plus councillors countrywide work as estate agents or auctioneers”

gloriousily fed up with music as of late. i took to clearing off several gb of music from itunes. after five years of using last.fm i actually started to use the last.fm recommendation station that it had waiting for me. fantastic stuff. as are the mixes on kinosport.tv (a recent import into the world of helsinki)