(69th) What's your name?

- Who are you?
- The new Number Two
- Who is Number One?
- You are Number Six
- I am not a number, I am a free man!

The previous dialog can be found from a TV-Serie from the 60's. And it can be heard from Iron Maiden's song called the Prisoner that can be found from their breakthrough album The Number of The Beast.

What I'm referring here is not the serie, not the song or not even the band, even though the band and the songs are one of my all time favorites and has been a significant influence even for my reading habits. The point in here is to be a post about naming the mobile phone products for nowadays market. It seems that most of the mobile phone manufacturers use some sort of numerical naming convention for their phone models. Something referring to some car model naming. It seems to work anywhere else but in the states. So, Sonyericsson  named it's next big thing to be called Idou (Not pronounced I Do You :D), RIM has it's blackberry and apple has it's Iphone. Nokia is using the numbering system with a character N or E in front of it what comes to be the sign to tell if it is a multimedia (N-series) or business-like (E-series) phone.

Now, yesterday evening I was watching second to last Conan O'Brien -show, where the host was asking his nicely pre-defined questions from Jerry Seinfeld. He asked about Jerry's attitude towards the future technology. And named precisely only Blackberry and iPhone. He did not talk about Multimedia Computer X87987387 v4 or anything that type of nerdish named phone model, e.g. Sonyericsson W960i (Injection??) or Nokia N96 etc. My point being here is that if I understand human mind at all, it is easier to so called normal people to adapt to naming convention that's referring to something familiar or easily swallowable, like iPhone, Razor etc. The numbering stuff is strictly easily adopted by the nerds and geeks, and why not, that's ok, fine by me, I can see myself in that category, too. After this long babbling about the names and the people I'd like to sharpen my point to be that the BIG markets should be among the normal, middle-class -people, who nowadays are not THAT much technologically oriented, even though they all seem to have their personal PC:s or MacBooks, which they proudly use for Facebooking everything in their life. And that's the mass (in my mind) where to target the marketing and therefore should the naming convention of the products been taken under serious re-consideration.

Or then again, not. Like I care :D

(68th) Chuck Norris

As every respectable warrior, I'd like to think I started this day by pushing the world back on it's place (rather than pushing myself up), as Chuck Norris could be imagined to do. For those who don't know, Chuck Norris is the official Dude for us everyday warriors. Now my world is in it's place.

What I actually mean here is the fact that my world seems to be more in it's place after this mornings excercise. I feel better, more limber, and even more capable of starting the workday. I hereby express my gratitude to Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee and any other 80's karate -star (excluding the Karate Kid), as well as to Ross Enamait and Matt Furey for giving me inspiration on putting my world on it's place. Just wondering, do I have to be nearly 40-years old before I understand this sort of things? Apparently, so it seems :D


And it's briefly in here, too: http://twitter.com/jankka, with the typo, twitter is still missing the editing possibilities :D

(67th) Ultimate Urban Survival Kit?

You can go to the woods and succesfully survive from an everyday life by using a knife, compass and a flintstone (and a pair of braincells, too - that is, the knowledge on how to get the tools made out of something...). And then there's this urban life , where you need a bit more: http://ericlefou.net/MES_TRUCS/MESobjets/Mon_equipement/international.htm.
Point being here is that Eric LeFou (Crazy-Eric) carries altogether 1300 different tools, gadgets and 'things' in his backpack and clothing. All my credit to Eric, I seem to be somewhat like him every now and then, nowadays less, I hope. :D.
Anyhow, makes you think how complicated this world has been made after all and what do you really need to get along the everyday life. To be honest I truly believe that less is more, in this case, too. Which reminds me to clean the trunk of our car, it's having WAY too much stuff in it :D.
Goes together with gym -training, too. Why would I need a dumbell or workbench to workout with when I got this 90 kg of meat around my (large) bones?

(66th) Free Lunch Foundation

Wouldn't it be great to beat the allfamous 'there's no free lunch' -tradition? Meaning that it would be neat to have a foundation that could actually give free lunches, to people who really are in need, perhaps. Anyhow the main point for getting the lunch would then be also that you could not earn it. In any matter. And that's what could make the whole thing tricky enough to accomplish and as a nice way, a challenge to set up.

Funding of the foundation would be nice to establish, too. How to collect money for such a purpose, especially in these economically troubled days? Maybe it would be good to have the whole foundation serving free food to homeless, poor or just plainly lazy people and at the same time collecting the funds and/or food for such a purpose. And once a week someone of the fed people would then be selected to get the real free meal of the week. A non-profit -foundation with no limits of service, so to say.

I kind of like the idea, since it is mine, of course and in the other hand, there's not much sense in it (It's mine, Q.E.D).

And, of course, it's been done already http://www.implu.com/nonprofit/61482552, at least in some way. And over here, too, http://freelunchproject.blogspot.com/. It's nice to know that I'm not alone. Are you?

(65th) The weakest link

Sad to say, no pic for today. No Bicycle driving either. Here in Stockholm it has been quite heavy snowfall since yesterday, and the scenes are beautiful. I was looking forward to exhaust myself today while on my way to work. As usual, it seems taht the road/snow-workers know when to have the day off and it definitely seems that they're having the well deserved coffee-breaks together with so famous swedish discussion. Instead of the thing to be done, at least this is my opinion. I recall in Finland, after this type of snowfall, the roads were cleaned through the night, including the bicycle roads. So, as you see, it would've been exhaustive and really nice to get me here.
But the point being is, that lately (last week it is) I've noticed something weird on my chain or in my gears, waas not sure what it was, but figured that some spray could grease up the chains and gears, and so sort things out. Luckily I did the 'greasing' this moring in a brighter light than last evening. The lock of my chain was almost broken. Meaning that the other end of the lock-part was completely gone. Phew! I was actually, besides being pissed for NOT getting to ride the bike, releafed that I found it out before it got completely broken. Thinking about my luck it would've been broken on the way here, in the uphill near Solvalla, in the midway of the whole route. And there would've I been, thinking should I go home and take the car or should I walk to work instead :D

So, things being like this, I just had to made my pushup -excercise instead. And yes, I'm on my way to do the http://hundredpushups.com , but the week 6 proved to be way too hard for me at the moment, so I'm back on week 4, day 1.

(64th) Making the news...

Just read about this:
http://yle.fi/uutiset/kulttuuri/2009/02/kuolevat_kielet_kirjattiin_karttaan__558353.html?origin=rss
OK, it is a newsflash from Finnish broadcast company (YLE). What now bothers me (here comes the nagging ;)  is the thing that mainly they've been just translating the global news agency news on to this and not taken care of too much localizing it. Meaning at all. I would've expected a Finnish broadcast company to check out what is the situation with Finnish-related languages. Since the Finnish language itself is spoken by 'only' 5 million people. So is the news today always this sort of copy-paste, where's the depth?

More info of local endangered languages here:
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=EN&pg=00136

And here's the map:
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00206

And by the way, how come endangered Kemi Saami -language is located between Rovaniemi and Sodankylä? Perhaps it does not have anything to do with Kemi, then :D

(63rd) Lost in the City (Part III)

This nice scene was around me and my bike this mornign on my way to work. Once again, I decided to make a shortcut and ended up walking instead of cycling :D.Needless to say that I'll have to wait until the spring comes before getting there again, stick to the path, man! In the other hand, it was neat to see different woods among a different road. To be honest, I'd rather get lost and in trouble every day instead of the normal not so interesting route.