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  • St.Petersburg for a thought

    It’s been almost six years since I’ve last been in Petersburg. Even though it is my home city, it happened so that I haven’t been there since I moved to Finland in 2000. 12:22 03 June 2006 After the border – Castle of Vyborg (Viipuri) 14:03 03 June 2006 Approaching Petersburg by train

  • Lifeblog 2.0 update for N70/N72/N90

    Lifeblog 2.0 update (2.0.24) for N70/N72/N90 Nseries multimedia computers is now available for download from www.nokia.com/lifeblog. This update contains fixes to the problems mentioned in "The power of blogs" post three weeks ago.

  • Back in Budapest

    I just returned from a trip to Budapest. Haven’t been there for four years. The city is even more beautiful than before. A lot of changes happened in these years. Budapest is very clean, practically no traces of the spring flood (the worst for many years), you can see a lot of property development all…

  • Lifeblog is not a blogging application!

    When Lifeblog 2.0 has been launched most of the moblie-related web sites and blogs spread the news and a few discussions sparkled on various forums. Unfortunately focus of the most of the posts was on moblogging with Lifeblog rather than on the main functionality of the application.

  • Vappu in Helsinki

    Vappu on Senate square Vappu on Senate square Fazer is giving away tippaleipä Tippaleipä Fire brigade orchestra Havis Amanda on Vappu day Pictures from Vappu celebration in Helsinki taken with new Nokia N93 (posted using Lifeblog from mobile phone and optimised).

  • Norwegian Waffles

    I know it is Vappu, and we are supposed to drink mead and eat munkki and tippaleipä, but somehow I really miss fresh Norwegian waffles with sour cream, straberry jam and brown goat cheese. Somehow Norwegian waffles are really different from ones in Sweden and Finland. Or may be it is just a sentimental feeling…

  • New “transformer” with Lifeblog

    Today Nokia announced three new Nseries phones and N93 amongst them. This is a new transformer and a first one that has Lifeblog 2.0 application in ROM, which means that user content with valuable context information will be collected right from the first start of the phone. It was one of Christian Lindholm’s predictions (or…

  • Share WLAN with your neighbours?

    Tero Lehto writes in his blog that (according to ITviikko newspaper) Anssi Vanjoki – General Manager of Nokia Multimedia is not protecting his home WLAN. According to the newspaper Anssi Vanjoki said that he even considers to put up a sign on the roof – "Free WLAN. Feel free to use."

  • “Not to celebrate Nabokov is a tragedy”

    Read a very interesting article in Wednesday’s FT – "Not to celebrate Nabokov is a tragedy" by Nina Khrushcheva. Even if you’re not into russian literature – it is definitely a good read. Nina is a great-granddaughter of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. She also has a number of other interesting articles on Project Syndicate (translated…

  • Happy birthday 🙂

    As a present to myself I have registered www.ivankuznetsov.com domain for this blog. Update your links!