Over the past two or three weeks, I've finally started more or less systematically digitizing my music collection. I set up Grip with proper customized encoding commands so that the metadata in the resulting files is all as I like, and otherwise spent time in thinking how I want things to be. I did have quite a few existing files, but at most say ( Read more... )

Last night I heard on radio YLE Suomi The Corrs' Would You Be Happier?, that was a surprise. From all the possible Corrs songs, they play that one? It took me awhile to recognise the song, it's been awhile.. But I was fairly certain it was a certain Andrea singing ( Read more... )

So, Ropecon 2009 ( Read more... )

Hi,

Anyone know how to ignore posts in the friends page from some subscriptions by tags? No? Bleh.
(I'm particularly thinking 'twitter'.)

Ropecon came and went. It's hard to write (quickly) anything all-encompassing, but this year was in a way more intense than ever before, mostly because I worked a lot more. In fact I think I've never worked as hard as I have for this event. And things generally went okay, it felt really good when I saw it all coming together. And I did get praise, ( Read more... )

I spent the past four days at Tammerfest, enjoying the city (music) festival. I took my work laptop with me to do work remotely, and took residence in a friend's vacant apartment, which she graciously agreed to let me use for the few days.

Wednesday I saw Stella at YO-talo, and before that Heidi Holmavuo performing covers at Fall's Cafe. Heidi's ( Read more... )

Nothing of these is particularly recent, but I didn't get around to posting at the appropriate time... So anyway.

A picture of the cherry tree in blossom, on my backyard back in May. I think it looked nicer in real life than in this picture. By now of course all the blossoms are gone. The cherries will probably all get eaten by birds, if last year ( Read more... )

Today I discovered that the company I work for actually allows you to have bicycle leasing. I've heard about car leasing before, but the same concept applied to bikes is a new thing. For some reason, I find it quite amusing. :)

All that aside, come summer I might actually consider trying that out. :)

Today I've spent some time finishing a project of mine, setting up a couple of loudspeakers in my kitchen. They're hooked to my stereo system in my working room (or "home office", I suppose), so now I can enjoy music also in kitchen when cooking or eating, or just reading.

The speakers are a pair of Chorus Compact 662. They sound good, far far ( Read more... )

I joined Facebook. So, umm, if you know me, feel free to send a request my way.