The Joy of PC's

 just one more reason to hate computers, seems that even though computers need to keep relativley accurate time, they can't.
Seems Jeff Atwood has found that time syncronisation does not work too well.

two teath out and very little pain

went to the dentist today (again), i have to say that the dentists here in finland are VERY good.

at least the pain killers are working (even if they do make me feel a bit spacey).

On a more possitive note I am doing better than this skunk

Strange things you learn...

When your farther passes away (slightly unexpectedly)

• Find out their lawyers name (or at least where the will is!)


• do they have any specific wishes for their funeral


• who their firends are

so instead of like me faffing round, it goes all smoothly.

recipe for black pudding

Pork, pork fat, pearl barley, oatmeal, barley flour, rusk crumbs, onions, salt, herbs, spices

But what i want to know is, what is the blood listed under?

Hauskaa Vappua

Well, that is the first of the big drinking events of the year over with.

Read details about it at Helsinki Sanomat (the largest circulation finnish newspapaer)

Good weather at last...

and co-incidently, similar thing happend in Canada found on ongoing

As the weather is nice, the ol' ZZR got dusted off and started up. Hurrah for motorcycles.

But not some much for petrol, as in the six months the bike had been standing it appears that the fuel had "gone off".
How did i find this out, well 20 minutes of attempting to bump-start the bike (after nearly running the battery flat), then a rest, then another 10 minutes, where my friend (who has just bought a Triumph America), helped in the pushing. Before the suggestion that the fuel might be bad. So €10 of fuel to top-up the tank, and one last push up the hill, then HURRAH the sound i have been waiting all winter to hear again.

tomorrow i will be mostly...

drinking beer at helsinki beer festival.

It's a hard life but someone's got to do it :)

Dumb business decisions

After a bit of a lay-off i wanted to continue playing WoW, so attempted to give them some money by logging into the account screens.

All day Saturday and Sunday the system would eventually return a "503 Server Busy" error.
Phoned them on Monday, and the answer was "We know, and are working on it", but no clue as to when it would be fixed.
At least they credited me one days play (so i got on last night at least)

nice walk on the ice

Finally got the energy on sunday to go for a walk across the sea ice near my appartment. Sunny day, and a well trodden path, made for a pleasent afternoon.
And once out of the wind, it got really warm (under the many fleace jackets i was wearing)

emotionally moving stuff

Found some gut-wrenching stuff via onging. Not the sort of thing you expect to find linked off a fairly hard core tech site.
Well written (just a shame that the "blog" style of top posting makes it hard to read :( )

Also while surffing round today found this story of a hospital visit. Good reminder for anyone who works, "Don't forget the customer!".
Originally i was going to write "good advice for anyone in customer services", but i figure everyone needs to think about customer service. if you don't then you won't be working there for long as the company will have gone under!