tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503Fri, 01 Nov 2024 06:23:36 +0000fly fishingfishingUtsjokilive musicmusicsnowmobilingVetsijokisnowboardingKiiminkijokiTenoTenojokiVesterelvacasting a flyconcertsinternetperhokalastussalmonsnow mobilingC and RC and R fishingCR-VCatch and KillCatch and ReleaseCatch and Release fishingFinnish salmon riversGuideline LPXeHondaHonda CR-VKuusamoKymijokiKärpätMerced riverMiscrosoftNokiaNorwegian salmon riversNäätämöjokiOulujokiRiksgränsenRukaSalmon rivers in FinlandSeat Ibiza FRShoreline amphitheaterSimojokiTornionjokiYosemiteamphitheaterbookscarfamilyfirst timefishing gamesfishing in bay areafloorballgamesglobal warminggreenhouse effecthockeyice hockeykalastuslinkin parklohestuslohiloosing a flylynxlätkämobile OSmobile gamesmoottorikelkkamoottorikelkkailumountain viewnew carnew year's promisesozzfestozzy osbournepartyperhon menetysperukesiimaphotophotographingrainbow troutrocksalibandyshooting headskiingsleddingsmartphonessportstippet linetrouttrout fishingunetunivacationvirtual fishingRandom thoughts and experiences on fishing, snowmobiling, snowboarding, internet services and other interests of the writer.http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)Blogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-1855266830114842390Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:37:00 +00002013-09-19T14:37:46.858+03:00Just had an interesting discussion over coffee break about blogging and how few people actually can make a living out of it. I guess there aren't too many people in Finland who don't need to do anything else to earn their daily bacon than maintain a blog. Anyway, the discussion got me reminiscing the grand plans I had when I started this blog. I thought I'd write a story about me getting back http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2013/09/thoughts-about-blogging.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-5896681161718540344Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:29:00 +00002011-02-18T11:52:04.924+02:00It's somewhat funny to read analyses and opinions of industry "experts" about Nokia's chances in differentiating from other smart phone manufacturers with WP7. Most of these people have been saying that Nokia simply can't differentiate. What? We don't even know the details on how deep in the OS Nokia can make changes. But it has been publicly revealed that they will have more leg room than other http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2011/02/can-nokia-differentiate-from-other.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-6808634701598804933Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:17:00 +00002011-02-11T12:19:09.353+02:00Miscrosoftmobile OSNokiasmartphonesAs a soon-to-be-ex-nokian (notice period ending on Feb 20) I have a lot of thoughts about the situation of the company and prospects of the freshly announced new Nokia strategy. I won't comment much the first one except that there are great people there and with good leadership and strategy Nokia can still remain #1 mobile phone company for years to come.But I can't resist to comment the new http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2011/02/nokia-windows-phone-7-could-be-winner.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-3703495336368522628Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:32:00 +00002011-03-02T08:57:37.288+02:00lynxsnowmobilingI went riding yesterday with my new snowmobile, Lynx Rave SC 600 E-TEC, 2011. I drove a bit above 80 km, Ouluntulli-Muhos-Ouluntulli, and the trail was in the usual condition which means quite worn out and bumpy. I must say that based on the first experience the new sled is absolutely great. My old one, 2006 Lynx X-Trim 600 SDI, was so heavy and clumsy in tight corners. The new sled is tens of http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-toy-lynx-rave-sc-600-e-tec.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-1933853210876496085Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:44:00 +00002010-11-26T20:00:31.844+02:00Sitting in a cafeteria waiting for my son from his swimming practiceRead a book about happiness, happiness at workThinking of lifeAm I happy? I think I've always beenSometimes I get sad, like today, but I'm never unhappyI hope to stay this waySometimes I want more, like the other day, but I'm never unhappyI hope to stay this wayI've been pushed around, I've been hurtBut I've never been unhappy, http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2010/11/happy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-882002880243468934Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:01:00 +00002010-09-26T13:40:53.300+03:00I had payed drums just a little bit for a few months when I was 10 years old. So when my colleagues starting a band asked me in March this year if I'd like to come and play drums in the band, I wasn't sure how that would work out. Anyway I said I can give it a shot. I also told them to give me a boot if I wasn't learning. Luckily there is a band training room available for bands of Nokia Oulu http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2010/09/playing-drums-in-band-can-37-year-old.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-1845520090969104135Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:24:00 +00002010-04-27T13:25:04.268+03:00RiksgränsensnowmobilingvacationI was on a snowmobiling club's trip to Riksgränsen, Sweden last week. And I have to say WOW! It was simply amazing. The fells there are something else compared to the low one's in Finland and you're allowed to drive anywhere, no need to stay on dedicated snowmobiling trails. This means you get to do hill-climbing on untouched snow.This time there was a lot of snow and it was packed hard with onlyhttp://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2010/04/snowmobiling-in-riksgransen.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-3514040847164085041Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:12:00 +00002010-03-04T12:46:29.883+02:00Vancouverin talviolympialaisten päättymisestä on jo kohta viikko kulunut ja olen ehtinyt Suomen menestystä, tai paremminkin menestymättömyyttä sulatella. Sulattelu alkaa pikkuhiljaa tuottaa tuloksena kaksitasoisen analyysin syistä siihen miksi suomalainen urheilija harvoin onnistuu ylittämään itsensä kauden päätapahtumassa ja tavallista useammin jää jopa oman normaalitasonsa alapuolelle, ja mikä http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2010/03/miksi-suomalainen-urheilija-kammaa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-2237258618143706559Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:57:00 +00002010-03-04T12:12:21.051+02:00Ihan pakko on avautua täällä, kun ottaa päähän niin ankarasti tuo ahtaajin lakko. En ymmärrä miten tällaisessa taloudellisessa tilanteessa kuin koko maapallo nyt makaa voi mikään ammattiryhmä katsoa oikeudekseen ajaa omia etuja lakkoilemalla. Arviot vientitappioiden summasta lakkopäivää kohden pyörivät 100 M €:n tietämillä. Tähän ei vielä sisälly tulevaisuudessa menetettävä myynti johtuen siitä, http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2010/03/ahtaajien-lakkowtf.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-8973657617752833868Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +00002009-11-26T23:52:12.507+02:00partyEnpä ole pitkään aikaa kerennyt tänne mitään kirjoitelemaan. Twitter- ja Facebook- älyttömyydet ovat saaneet riittää tyydyttämään avautumisen tarpeeni. Mutta nyt ajattelin kuitenkin jotain tarinoida, kun ei vielä uneta ja koko muu perhe on jo unten mailla.Joulukuussa on tideoosa parit mukavat bileet. Ensin on 4. päivä firman pikkujoulut. Odotan innolla etenkin etkoja ja jatkoja. Etkoilla on http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/11/party-plans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-4651252386307017631Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:05:00 +00002009-10-26T12:18:22.328+02:00internetmusicI hate it that I have to use Win Media Player or iTunes to play the tracks that are not available on Spotify but that I have on my hard disc. Couldn't Spotify change the player so it could access the local music library as well. I would do it so that when you search for something to listen to it would first check the local library and if it's not there only then use their library. As a user http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/10/spotify-on-steroids.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-4914369343633764401Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:45:00 +00002009-10-14T14:37:45.313+03:00internetmusicI've been using Spotify now for quite some time and I like it more now than when I first wrote about it. Perhaps 70% of my music listening is now on Spotify. If I don't take into account music I listen to from the radio in car, then the percentage probably is close to 90%.I even use it to listen to music that I have already on the hard drive. But why is it like that, why do I use it so much? It'shttp://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/10/roberta-from-spotify.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-2849200363934807164Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:46:00 +00002009-09-26T23:05:19.833+03:00floorballsalibandysportsWent to the season opener game of OLS in Finnish Floorball championship league. It was my first time ever to see this game live on this level. It's pretty damn fast and very good entertainment. I sat on the first row so I was really close to the action. I totally recommend this to anybody who enjoys watching a fast team sport. The game is pretty physical also nowadays. I'm sure I'm going to see http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/09/floorball-season-opener.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-3681576085277870098Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:17:00 +00002009-09-08T13:32:33.171+03:00hockeyice hockeyKärpätlätkäI can hardly wait to see how Oulun Kärpät will do in SM Liiga this season. The team has gone through some changes compared to last year and there are a few very interesting players in the roster now - Teemu Aalto, Kimmo Koskenkorva, Pekka Saarenheimo and Pavel Rosa. Especially I'm looking forward to see how Koskenkorva who is now returning to Kärpät after many years is going to perform.Also http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/09/lets-play-hockey.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-793042549328328493Sat, 23 May 2009 12:02:00 +00002009-05-25T01:11:05.547+03:00booksI read an interesting book during the flights on the way from Oulu to San Francisco. It was "Enough: Breaking Free from the World of More" by John Naish. It's interesting how Naish explains our consumer habits by survival instinct that was vital when we still lived in caves. But the question remains open for what happens if we all learn to realize what is enough and that we just don't get any http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-is-too-much.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-5598845337031722817Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:49:00 +00002009-04-16T23:17:55.407+03:00We had a wonderful Easter break in Utsjoki with two other families - our friends from Oulu and Kuopio.The weather was just great for the two first days. On the third day it was cloudy but it didn't matter that much. The first day we went ice-fishing on a lake in the fells. We didn't catch any fish though but that wasn't the point anyway. The snowmobile trip to the lake was a great adventure for http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-in-utsjoki.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-4680378913101558313Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:10:00 +00002009-03-15T22:30:46.170+02:00Only 4 nights to the start of the main snowmobile trip of the year. This time around we're going to Gällivare, Sweden. Expectations are extremely high! I've been reading trip stories from kelkkalehti.com discussion board and it all sounds almost too good. There's just enough snow right now (68 cm) even though I woudn't mind if there was more. The weather forecast for the time we'll be there lookshttp://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/03/snow-mobile-trip-of-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-8360431855106294856Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:20:00 +00002009-02-09T09:20:39.405+02:00I'm reading Don Tapscott's Grown Up Digital and feel quite related to the Net Gen in some ways although I'm Gen X'er myself. I love many of the great social networking services and other nice stuff on Internet. I love to both consume and share things there. I want my Facebook, Last.fm, Flickr, Twitter, You Tube, Spotify etc.But then again in many ways the Net Gen is so alien to me. I'm not as http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/02/net-gens-own-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-4705523985582226035Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:20:00 +00002009-01-30T08:45:48.225+02:00I installed the latest version of Fring client yesterday once I saw the blog post about Last.fm integration to it from TechCrunch. I had been using Fring before but once we got our own Nokia Chat (now called Contacts on Ovi) out last summer I ditched Fring.Now I played around with the new Fring client a bit and it is pretty nice...they have done quite nice job integrating Twitter, Facebook http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/01/lastfm-on-fring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-5298837677166016633Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:55:00 +00002009-01-29T12:16:03.664+02:00I've seen a lot of discussions in blogs, emails and Twitter bracing Spotify. Some say after using it for a couple of days that they love it and couldn't live without it.The laggard that I am, I only subscribed to and installed the Spotify client a few days ago. Right now I'm listening to the new Bruce Springsteen album on Spotify (quite a nice album...basic stuff from the Boss).I'm not totally http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/01/spotify-is-cool-but-thats-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-804120450995453865Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:45:00 +00002009-01-20T12:49:00.483+02:00It's kind of boring to see people update their status on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo, Orkut or whatever social network with the stuff that is just normal routine part of their days, like "Mette Mannonen is at work forecasting the weather" (no, I don't know her but would love to :-) ).I'm guilty of doing this myself also sometimes when I can't think of anything clever to say but I feel like http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/01/status-messages-for-life.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-2809661790147304286Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:49:00 +00002009-01-12T00:05:02.848+02:00Wau, ajoin eilisellä reissulla lyhyen pätkän kaverin uudella Lynx Rave RE 600 E-TECillä! Täytyy sanoa, että nyt minun -06 -vuosimallin Lynxin 600 SDi X-Trim on ihan museokamaa. Moottorista en osaa sen ihmeempää sanoa, mutta kyllähän sekin pitäisi juttujen mukaan olla paljon parempi ja vähäpäästöisempi kuin toi SDi. Kaverin kellkka vaan on vielä sisäänajossa, joten kulutus oli kovempi kuin minullahttp://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/01/mun-kelkka-on-museokamaa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-460781578654952184Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:09:00 +00002009-01-11T23:49:07.308+02:00Tuli sitten kelkkakausi avattua eilen Pudasjärven maisemissa. Kaverin kanssa pakattiin aamulla kelkat Oulussa kärryn kyytiin ja nykäistiin ne Juustolan pihaan. Siitä sitten rykäistiin kelkoilla Syötekeskukseen ja takaisin. Aika rankka lenkki kauden aloitukseksi, kun matkaa tuli reilu 200 km ja koko matka aika patikkoa. Iijoki oli aika pahasti vesillä, joten päätettiin kiertää sillan kautta sen http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2009/01/kelkkakauden-avaus-juustola-syte.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-2180339553690576310Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:31:00 +00002009-01-02T10:23:51.387+02:00There was an interesting post in TechCrunch couple of weeks ago by Mr Arrington about his presentation in Le Web conference that caused even more interesting reaction from the Le Web organizer."Conference organizer Loic Le Meur (a French entrepreneur who moved to Silicon Valley for his most recent startup Seesmic) says that Silicon Valley moves too fast, and that Europeans enjoy a good two hour http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2008/12/there-was-interesting-post-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-699314726218345503.post-1909930909909583483Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:26:00 +00002008-10-22T13:01:18.377+03:00Today I'm going to go and see a CHL game between Oulun Kärpät and Metallurg Magnitogorsk While I can't wait to see my hometown hockey pride take on last the year's "European Champion" I'm also pretty pessimistic about the chances of the home team. Season start has been quite shaky for Kärpät and very important piece of the team is missing now that Jari Viuhkola is injured. Heck, they even lost http://fisherwannabe.blogspot.com/2008/10/oulun-krpt.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Marko OK)0