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Jonathan Puddle
Jonathan Puddle is a geek and a gamer, an IT Manager by trade, a DJ, and a father to 2 crazy boys. He currently resides in Finland.
Homepage: http://www.jpuddy.net
Posts by Jonathan Puddle
Getting what you want out of an Elisa Kotiboksi
Aug 29th
We moved into a new home this month, and had to arrange a few Finnish home service providers for the first time. Our last home was university housing, which provided all utilities and internet access, so we hadn’t crossed this barrier before. Our new place didn’t have a land-line phone, and had just missed out on the fiber being rolled out in the area, so we were left with Cable broadband as our only option. Now, conventional wisdom is that Finland is crap, and that one should stick with DSL, but lacking the option (and not being entirely convinced about More >
The benefits of planning
Aug 20th
I just blogged about this over on the Catch The Fire (my employer) Office blog.
Like many SMBs, we spend a lot of our time fighting fires and running from one project to the next. Taking time out to plan for the future is a luxury not often afforded, or not often pursued. I’ll admit also that in the past our organization has had a bad track record for not sticking to plans in the long term. So I was a little reticent about spending weeks of time last year on a 5 Year Plan… but I did it anyway.
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What Microsoft needs to do to with phones
Jul 29th
Ars Technica has a fantastic write-up on why Microsoft is irrelevant in the phone market, and what they need to do to fix that.
…if the company wants to achieve any relevance in this market, it needs to stop acting like a software company, and start acting like a consumer electronics company. It learned that lesson with Zune. It knew it was the only option with Xbox. It needs to do the same for phones.
The forest makes you healthy
Jul 7th
Since moving to Finland, where our city is nestled amongst pine and birch forests, we’ve found ourselves feeling healthier and more energetic than ever before (Maija being pregnant, notwithstanding). Turns out… the forest is the one making us healthy! http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/07/0115240/Forest-Bathing-Considered-Healthful
I love that people are studying this stuff.
New options for tablets and e-readers
Jul 1st
Matt Mitchell shared this fantastic link with me, from Wired. Hahaha, check it out.
More >There was a time when your choice of book told people who you were, or at least who you wanted to be. Or, barring that, who you wanted people to think you wanted to be. Having an e-reader doesn’t say anything but “I read books and have power outlets in my home.” (Both admirable qualities, to be sure.)
Luckily for venture capitalists, I have ideas. It’s time for the world of e-readers to diversify so people can make a statement with their choice of electronic word-delivery device.
Twitter Updates for 2010-06-29
Jun 29th
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Ruuben Levi Eelis http://youtu.be/5CYjuvXqs4M?a #
- I uploaded a YouTube video — Ruuben Levi Eelis – 2 http://youtu.be/oae9TQfc4Dc?a #
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Ruuben Levi Eelis
Jun 29th
Was born on Monday! What an awesome little dude he is. Maija has written a story about it already, though she’s still in the hospital.
Help me Obiwan Kenobi, you’re my only hope
Jun 25th
Remember the 3D holograms that Star Wars popularized… and no one has been able to make work in real life yet? Well, it’s getting closer. Prepare to have your mind thoroughly blown, thanks to some researchers at the University of Southern California.
Flipping awesome.
A hunger to write
Jun 23rd
Over the last few months I’ve been developing a hunger to write again. Having a young family hugely impacts the time you have available for hobbies and personal fulfillment, so I’ve been trying (and generally failing) to make wise choices with the time I do have. God has provided for us in 3 awesome ways with a specific project that is consuming almost all of our evenings, at present.
The back story, is that our good friend Dave was approached to have his master’s thesis published as a book. A thesis and a book are two different things, and significant editing More >
New website design
Jun 22nd
I’ve been meaning to update my site design for a while, but haven’t found the chance or the right templates. I was installing the new WordPress 3 at work this week, and it reminded me that I needed to refresh my site. So thanks to the wonders of WordPress, here it is. This is roughly 1 hour of work by me, but lots of hard work by the wonderful people who created this theme and the plugins. Cheers!