Trip Report - Easter 2008 + BIG NEWS!

Now that I finally have some news to report, I almost forgot!

I went to Finland before Easter and trained a group at Espotel. At Easter I did the traditional Peurunka gig, which meant sports, good food, games and karaoke in well-proportioned. This has become one of my favorite times of the year, as many of the nice people who are there I only see there. Another similar time is summer holiday, but more about that later.

After Easter I went to Oulu, had three training sessions, one with Ardites, but the other too were nice too. Here's a press release explaining why I've been so keen to be in Oulu.

After a tough icehockey match in Oulu (well, our follow-up was tough!), I returned to Tampere to curse over a new computer. It was just as well we didn't have Vista on it, there were enough problems with Windows XP. I noticed two problems, which would have been left unsolved by a layman. There was even one installation mistake, which we noticed when we opened the machine. Finally everything was running well. Well, as well as things run on Windows. I hate the uncertainty of the operating system. Sometimes it would say "a driver has not been installed. The device may not work correctly." may? MAY? Doesn't the system know that for sure? Seems very unreliable. Should the user know that better?

The household also got a new Nokia mobile phone and I decided to install PC Suite to connect the phone to the PC. On the first time I managed even to make a connection and move a picture from one device to the other over a cable. Then I apparently did something which I shouldn't have and it was no longer possible to connect the phone! I removed the PC Suite installation, the application it had installed on the phone and tried by reinstalling. Still no connection! How difficult can that be? My guess is that the removing of the application didn't remove everything, there's an entry in the terribly complicated Windows registry just stopping the connection. That's such a basic thing you'd expect to work, and when it doesn't you really feel powerless. There's nothing you can do. As far as I know, the problem is still unsolved. Maybe try with Bluetooth?

Mylab read my article in Pitkyn Piiri and did not hesitate in contacting Kilosoft. Good thing too, as I was still in Finland and we could organize a training in less than a week. The initial contact was on Friday, I talked about over the weekend and on Monday it was clear that Thursday would be the training day. And it went well, despite the rather exotic programming language, which I hadn't seen before.

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Suomeksi:
Pääsiäisreissu meni hyvin. Espotel-koulutus ennen pääsiäistä, pääsiäinen Peurungalla TODELLA mukavien ihmisten seurassa, sitten Ouluun, jossa kolme koulutusta ja jääkiekkomatsi. Kouluttajakoulutuksen lisäksi solmin Ardites Training Services Oy:n toimitusjohtaja Sami Varpeniuksen kanssa lisenssisopimuksen, joka mahdollistaa Ardites-konsernin sisäiset Tick-the-Code -koulutukset. Ohessa lehdistötiedote. Viikonloppuna asentelin ohjelmia uuteen Windows XP:llä varustettuun tietokoneeseen, hampaita kiristellen aina välillä. Mylab tilasi vielä yhden koulutuksen ja saikin sen vajaan viikon järjestelyillä. Tuollaista molemminpuolista joustavuutta ei satu usein.