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bump	Sunday, December 31, 2006 \| link \|

new years eve bump!

blog stuff changed a while back - make sure you use the proper feeds!

new blog rss feed: here
new blog + flickr + del.icio.us feed: here
new blog livejournal syndication: here

(the old livejournal "drrnwbb" feed will not be updated anymore)

moved

morning.

blog stuff has changed!

new blog rss feed: here
new blog + flickr + del.icio.us feed: here
new blog livejournal syndication: here

(the old livejournal "drrnwbb" feed will not be updated anymore)

break

going to be taking a little break from here for a few weeks - going to denmark/iceland later this week for a little while and im also moving from blogger to wordpress - so i gotta design a theme (how come nearly all wordpress themes look like "wordpress themes"? gotta learn some css too).

back in late october. email or sms!

woah	Thursday, October 05, 2006 \| link \|

ryanair bids for aer lingus!

(on an aside - i tried to publish this post 13hours ago when the news was just announced on the radio - but alas blogger.com refused to connect and publish it - not for the first time either. wordpress here i come)

photo a day

as a follow up to this post from 2003 - the dude ("when will it all end") went and put all the 8 years of self portraits into a video: link.

gondry

a little while back i went to see the film "the science of sleep" - directed by michel gondry. its one of the best movies ive seen in ages despite (or perhaps caused in part) by a linguistic mashup. the film is mostly in english and french with a tiny bit in spanish. the copy we saw at a film festival didnt have any subtitles - so a woman was sitting at the back of the cinema with a laptop and a fancy machine thingy that allowed her to live subtitle the french parts into finnish. of course it didnt work properly for most of it - so i was reading finnish, listening to french, still laughing at a previous joke in english. hohoh. i sat there smiling like a madman for 105 minutes. anyhoo go see it when it comes to your part of the woods.

previous: december 2003 rant about gondrys directors dvd set.

(i do sort of feel bad that ive started his other film "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" twice and not finished either time. just does nothing for me. i think i just prefer his own stuff)

omg! i just noticed/realised/remembered that the character of zoé is played by emma de caunes - daughter of "eurotrash" presenter antoine de caunes. madness. mmm.

also: the making of the film: google video link (mais c'est en français!)

best in show

i was at the opening of the best in show exhibiton in the galleria krista mikkola and i took some pictures. which was nice. flickr set link!

puppets

giant puppets in downtown reykjavík: story link : video

(bonus random image link that has nothing to do with the puppets but is beyond fantastic!)

in the news

1: a 2007 election here in finland will have some "celebrity" candidates: teen rapper pikku gee and yer man from the finnish curling team from the winter olympics. yle.fi link.

2: metro mene länteen! the sign in ruoholahti metro station will finally mean something proper! yle.fi link.

the future

a large multifantastical company (wasaki) wants to build a new island off the coast of dublin in the shape of a shamrock. the island will have playgrounds, motorway access, tram line access, 14km of coast, 42,000 lukury apartment and lots of office space. what really makes it fantastic though is that it will have the worlds only giraffe zoo!.

construction on seamrog island will take 3 years and everything will be fantastic.
project website
project video

(98% of me thinks this is a joke)

update: yup: spoilt.ie piece and boards.ie thread. viral marketing in ireland enters the 21st century. (it was all for some new housing website in ireland.... just what the housing market needed in ireland - more hype)

lost	Saturday, September 23, 2006 \| link \|

when i was getting ready to go out last night i seemed to have misplaced my wallet. couldnt find it anywhere. i checked everywhere in my room but no sign. retraced my steps but nothing. so just after midnight i started to "ring officialdom" to tell them that the card has been lost. i rang my finnish bank (spoke for 2m47s in finnish! woo!) and my irish credit card companies. was more worried about having to go to the police this morning to get my two state id cards reported as being lost. so i wake up this morning and get ready to go for a shower - i find the wallet in my bathrobe?!. i have no idea how it got there. so i ring back the finnish bank people and tell them and the woman there seemed genuinely happy that i found it. life goes on.

station

taken last summer in atocha station in madrid.

gorraah

you dont have to be irish to enjoy this site - but it helps.

beta	Sunday, September 17, 2006 \| link \|

some of the stuff in the new google earth version 4 beta makes my brain hurt. go get it now!

kaupunki tilassa

as i mentioned in passing yesterday, there is an exhibition on in the finnish architecture museum at the moment thats called "kaupunki tilassa" (city and space). it takes the city of helsinki as the background and five proposals for different areas of the city are highlighted (as you can see in the image above the five proposals are seen to float above the rest of the city - you can see the future waiting to descend on the present. an amazingly simple idea and it just blew me away when i saw it this morning. i spent 20minutes taking pictures so i need to go back and see the actual proposals. best 3,50€ i spent in ages.

here are some photos: 2006.09.17 kaupunki tilassa

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