New blog

I have started a new blog

agathanreseptit.blogspot.com

where I store my baking and cooking recipes. They are so far in Finnish but I will be working on the translation later. It is supposed to work as storage for those recipes. Most of them are written on pieces of paper, or torn from a magazine or packing, so it is good to get them in a neat form to display.

I have tried all the recipes and if not, I say so too, so they should be safe to try to anyone. Anyway, trying is completely on everyone's own responsibility!

There I have added also links to articles that I have read and found interesting.

WANT A PREVIEW IN SPACE DO YOU HEAR ME! AND AN OOPS-BUTTON TOO!

October 14th, 2007

This was written to the original Windows Live Space Blog, and is about Windows Live Spaces too!

As I am in speed so here is more. Space is filled with all kinds of things - press this, accept this, deny that - but there is not any change to preview what I am doing. I press a button by mistake and realize it firs when I have done it and then there is no OOOOOPS-button and the offensive messsage - style, I won't accept your inquiry, go away - has already gone. I need that preview because I don't want to offend people; and I want that ooops-button too! WANT!

Problems in the net

My blog in Windows Live Spaces has obviously been speaking Finnish to each and every one without me knowing about it. I heard it today as one of my friends would have liked to read my latest script about Fred Vargas but could not. On the other side of the globe, she did not know which one of those Finnish-speaking buttons to press! If it has been speaking Finnish to all so why hasn't anyone said a word before? I asked another friend of mine to check and he was kind enough to do so so now I know. Like my msn: it was only one of my friends who was persistent in that it did not work - others i believe just tried and thought whatever since it did not work and gave up. What people! But perhaps it was only this one who was sure I would not leave a contact unreplied and in his case it is also true.

So THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE INTERFERED ACTIVELY WITH THESE PROBLEMS! Chat engines can translate announcements... my friend in England writes "Lunch" in his engine and I get "Lounaalla" (the same in Finnish) in mine under his name and I am sure he does not type it in Finnish... anyway, big Microsoft cannot do the translating or changing of language of the viewed page (even the settings) according to where it is viewed although it would be completely possible! What is even more ridiculous is that obviously I can't change the language. The instructions tell to change the language of the Internet Explorer browser. The problem is that I don't use it, I use Firefox. And it is in English. And even though I change to Internet Explorer and do as instructed it does not change the language anyway. So Microsoft should be rewarded with the prize of promoting Finnish language I suppose... Just think of it: free Gmail allows you to change languages yourself, and it is even easy.... Microsoft does not.... and it is neither free nor easy.... I have the feeling that the computing geniuses sit somewhere else than in Microsoft's planning offices.... (wonder if I get even more problems when passing on text like this????????)

Goes on and on

October 8th, 2007

The wonderful thing about blogs is that I may write what I do, think and feel, and in case I would be absent for someone it is possible that here my news are to be seen anyway - but no one ever has to read this. So it is not my responsibility, it is the reader's - whether one wants to know or not. Because I don't tell all miserabilities in e-mails - e-mails are my responsibility somehow.

Was to lab today. I have been postponing and postponing it... because I don't want to know the results. I thought this little harmless painful disaster of a disorder (rheuma) would not kill me. I thought it was not life-threatening. Now anyway my doctor suspects it is causing severe things here and there in my body... I know I live with it all the time but I don't want to think about it. And odd or not, it has felt that as long as I don't have the tests taken, I don't have to think about it.

Now anyway I had them taken and all right.... it has not been any good day - all the miserabilities this disorder can cause but then - I was shopping after work and when I came out .... what I saw was nearest awful for my condition - a landscape completely darkened by thick rain clouds - and heavy rain just about starting... suddenly I decided not to die just yet! That is a joke of course - but anyway it is incredible how most awful things can make you feel good. Get some psych-something to explain it, I can't - to me it is just funny and very handy.

I was asked what I will do with all that time now that I have finished the "big" (haha) writing work. What time? Looking at this week's schedule.... where is the Time? So... all goes its usual way, I rush from one thing to another... and somehow, in a strange way, even feel good about it. Don't have to think or explain to anyone so much about how I am or how I feel.

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Signed in (in Windows Live Spaces, that is)

August 13th, 2007

Signed in just the other day when invited by my friend Sargun in Turkey. Hi there! Luckily, I am on holiday and have time for things like this... enjoyable, and once started, maybe fun and useful too? Will try to find time to post short notes or longer philosophings from time to time.

Schools will start tomorrow, so we have been occupied with equipping our children with what we think - and they say - they will need. Basic education (grades 1 to 9) is free in Finland, and two of our three children are still on basic education, but there are extras... but it is what we are for, what we are working for. Our son is starting the gymansium and it is long ago we have been in gymnasium ourselves so we have lots to learn too... everything has changed.