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Dutch beer
While doing my shopping today I encountered a whole pile of six packs of “Royal Dutch“. On closer inspection of this beer that I never heard of, I learned that it is actually brewed in license of Posthorn, a brewery based in my home town (if there is such a thing), of Breda. WTF! [...]
Also tagged beerDigiboksi
Digiboksi is Finglish for DVB-C set top box. I bought one on saturday and had it replaced today by a different one.
Basically the story is that Finland is replacing good old analogue TV with digital tv. Terrestial analogue signal went dark a few months ago. A few weeks ago the ‘interesting’ channels (i.e. the ones [...]
websites and stupid assumptions
I just went to a blog and wanted to leave a comment. So the site redirects to blogger.com where I can leave a comment. The site correctly detects I am located in Finland. Very good! That’s so clever! Amazing what you can do these days!
The only problem is that like most of this world [...]
Husky Rescue
I should listen stuff I don’t know more often than I do. Husky Rescue is a cool Helsinki based band with a nice new album called “Ghost is not real”. Well recommended.
Also tagged reviewsWinter has come
I thought it was a bit chilly this morning while walking to work. I just checked with forecastfox: -18, five degrees colder than was predicted yesterday evening for last night :-).
Finally, winter has come.
Musa sapientum fixa est in aure
A long time ago, I learned Latin in school. Latin is a dead language, and other than appreciating sites like this, it is of little use to me. In fact, I’ve forgotten most of what I learned.
But today I discovered a nice web site, kindly provided by the Finnish broadcasting company, that might be useful [...]
I love this country
An event I’ve ignored for years and tactically zapped around on the TV is the eurovision song festival. When I was in Sweden, Sweden happened to win it (1999?). I heard about this while partying in Bågen, a very lousy night club in Ronneby. This year, I might keep an eye on the TV because [...]
Also tagged Odd stuffSupermarket beers in Finland
One of the things that take some getting used to when moving to Finland is the beer. Quality and price are, well, different. I don’t really care about the price but quality is something different. You have to lower you expectations and standards in this country when drinking beer.
A big problem here is the notion [...]
sauna
With living in Finland comes the inevitable sauna experience (apparently, Finland has an estimated 2 million saunas, one for every three persons). Today I had some work related meeting which finished with sauna and dinner. That was quite an experience. The facilities at Båtvik included a pool, electric sauna and most importantly a old fashioned [...]
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