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Test drive: Finnair Airbus 330-300

Inside Finnair A330While I was still weeping for the memory of MD-11s, I had an opportunity to fly with the brand new Finnair Airbus 330-300 jet passenger plane from New York to Helsinki and back.

Things Do Not Go Always (Usually) As Planned

Couple of months ago, ignoring my out-of-the-blue-appeared back pain, I headed to Manhattan to take some photographs. It had been snowing at night, and the trees at our suburban neighborhood looked astonishing.

The Night of the Full Moon

Finally some proper winter weather has been arrived to Westchester county. There is snow on the ground and the temperature stays below freezing almost the whole day. Great!

Building own photograph management system

Every photographer needs to have a way to store and manage the photographs. Just copying the photo files into your C drive with the file manager is not really an option.

Not now dear, I’m fixing our Windows PC

I have been running a PC at the living room for some years now. After trying out various ways to stream music or videos from Internet or home data storage appliances, PC turned out to be the best tool for the purpose. The dedicated living room audio-visual streamers I tried out were usually easy to use, but always had some restriction that prevented me taking them in real use – it was a continous nightmare of unsupported video codecs and failed UPnP connections.

Interview with Finnair MD-11 pilots

As I wrote in my previous blog post, I sometimes write letters to the cockpit crew en route to ask random questions about the aviation. Few weeks ago, I was once again hopping from Helsinki back to New York, on board of my favorite jet, the good old MD-11.

One weird way to spend time during a flight

Once upon time, I was on board of Airbus A320 heading back to Finland from some a distant southern corner of Europe.

Shopping a car in America style

Here in the United States, a car shopping is a bit different joy compared to Finland (and quite many European countries I believe).

Let's get this thingy up and kicking

Finally!

That is the first word in my mind when writing this very first blog post. It has taken too many years to get this blog up and public.

While others took the easy ride and established their blogs into the web publishing services like Blogger or TypePad, I wanted to the take full control over the blog, including the technologies running the blog pages. So I needed to first build the whole web site before get started.