Dual boot with Boot Camp

My Windows 7 evaluation copy was about to expire but I still have occasional need to run Windows. The main use is DVD Profiler for keeping movie catalog but lately there was also interest to play Civilization 4 again.

Running Windows inside Virtualbox was working fine for DVD Profiler but obviously performance wasn't too good and clearly not enough for games, even for strategy game like Civ4. The obvious solution was to setup dual boot to Windows with Apple Boot Camp. It was actually very straightforward to do. Unfortunately I had to buy a copy of Windows... Well, now I can play again Civ4 and also wait for Civilization 5 :)

Happy New Year 2010!

The next decade started for me in sunny and crisp -18C winter day in Vimpeli, Finland. It's been a great winter so far. Snow, much snow, this year.

Posting with N900

Here I try posting with MaemoPy on Nokia N900!

Now that summer is over time for posting here seem to have vanished.. :(

Maemo 5 and N900 are here!

Maemo 5 and N900 got announced today. Hurray! I feel so proud to be part of the team behind them.

N900 builds on previous Internet Tablet models such as N800 and N810 but adds significant improvements to hardware department. Most notable OMAP2 has been replaced with Texas Instruments OMAP3 with ARM Cortex-A8 & PowerVR SGX accelerated 3D graphics. Another major, even more significant, is addition of cellular capabilities that bring phone functionality to N900. With powerful hardware the device brings computer-like multitasking performance to your hands.

Read more about Maemo 5 software goodies and N900 details at maemo.nokia.com! Soon you can have N900 in your pocket as well :-)

Scenes from Boston

Uploaded few shots from Cambridge and Boston that were taken during my trip to Gnome Boston Summit 2006. Check them here.

The Wait

The wait is killing me. Only two clues so far.

In Helsinki with Madonna

Madonna performed a concert from Sticky & Sweet tour in Helsinki 6.8.2009. And what a show it was. An amazing event overall and great performance from the artist and her team. Weather was great, too. Sun was still shining when Paul Oakenfield and Madonna's dancers warmed up the audience.

I'm not a fan but as said I enjoyed the concert very much. At the beginning people were bit calm but soon audience was jumping together with Madonna. Many of the songs were from her latest album Hard Candy and went unrecognized for me. Still they stuck in to my head and it was nice to dance in to them with rest of the crowd. Classics such as Into the Groove and Like a Prayer got the warmest welcome, as expected. In addition to those, my highlights were tender You Must Love Me and Give It 2 Me that ended the show. I could also mention Jump and Music and... The concert was also visually spectacular.

The biggest concert ever held in Finland was also well organized. Jätkänsaari had enough space for about 80 000 people. Getting there and away was not problem at all. I also bet the place was much easier to clean up afterwards compared to for example Kirjurinluoto in Pori, thanks to the flat concrete field.

I wasn't able to take our Ixus with me this time so I had to resort to my phone. Just took few shots, hoped for the best, and enjoyed the show! Below is a video shot by friend of mine next to me. You can also spot me on this video. We had pretty good place next to the stage :-) I love to be as front as possible as there you can see all the details and expressions of performers. In this concert it was obvious that Madonna and the dancers were really having good time as well.

Japan 2006 images

I uploaded some photos from my first trip to Japan (spring, 2006). You'll find them in Flickr. Enjoy!

Hancock

Rented Hancock today. Not due to the fact that I absolutely wanted to see it but selection was pretty poor this time at my local rental store. The movie was one of the kind I usually don't even think about going to see at a theater but I was in the mood for an easy action flick and took my chances..

So I didn't have too high hopes for this one. The beginning was poor. It tried to be funny but didn't work for me. Also the plot was quite straightforward and easy to expect. With one exception. There was a major twist in the middle that I didn't see coming. That changed the movie quite much and I even enjoyed it tonight. The movie ran only about 1,5 hours which was just enough.

The movie starred Will Smith, Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman. Theron was easily the best out of three lead roles while Bateman was a fresh face on the screen and suited well for the role. Will Smith... well, he was Will Smith.. I've never been a fan of him and won't be after this movie either.

I would give the movie rating 2,5 out of 5. A quite ok no brainer.

The other movie I watched today, Vicky Christina Barcelona, was from completely different genre. I'll write about that later.

Best of Japan 2007

I uploaded some of the good shots from Japan 2007 trip to Flickr. Enjoy!