October 2006

I received an envelope from the travel agency today and it contained a lot of papers. (…)

The library website for our capital city area started offering eBooks in July this year. The collection is still quite small and seems to include only non-fiction books at the moment. (…)

I work in localisation among other areas of translation and I know it’s very tempting to re-use texts that one might think are “the same”. (…)

… would they throw me in jail?
That wasn’t one of the questions I asked when I went to the travel agency this morning. (…)

The colour is more realistic and the chair does look more comfy. And you know why the picture’s better?
That’s right. I caved in, surrendered, gave up… I bought Nokia N73. (…)

Tomorrow I can finally start using my new phone! It’s SIM locked so I’ve had to wait for the new subscription to start working. (…)

Update on November 25. Added a bit about the game selection and joystick…
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Today the package subscription finally started working and I can start using my phone for real. (…)

I just ordered a 2 Gb miniSD card from an online store (I’ll pay it when I pick it up from the post office so I feel more secure with that). I had read good things about it. (…)

Just as I was starting to get worried about the travel insurance that I had paid for on the 11th but the papers hadn’t arrived yet. (…)

I invited myself to open a Google mail account (”Minna, Minna has invited you to open a Google mail account”), created a new account, and set it to allow POP usage. (…)