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Visit to Finnish Aviation Museum

Last weekend I visited our nearby aviation museum, located right next to Helsinki Airport (re-branded Helsinki-Vantaa Airport).

Tech traveller's best friend

if you are a techy traveller like me, you are most probable carrying more than one wi-fi enabled device with you. And most probably you have got some grey hair while trying to connect all those devices into Internet, over variously configured hotel networks.

Here is a tip: carry your own WiFi base station or router with you and save yourself from multiple the setup agony.

Test drive: Finnair Airbus 330-300

Inside Finnair A330While I was still weeping for the memory of MD-11, 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. What a perfect morning to capture some nice Central Park winter photos, I though.

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. One of the most common choices is to use management software like Apple's Aperture, Adobe's Lightroom or Google's Picasa.

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. The flight was too long to just sit it through but too short that I’d have prepared properly with books and stuff. Additionally, it was the dullest place in the plane I was sitting at: I saw a grey wing through the window instead of a beautiful sky view. 

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).