Minolta XG-1, a SLR camera

This was my first camera, which I bought when I was about 15. I used the camera a lot, and the aperture-based auto-exposure taught me a lot about photograpy. (Update: info about XG-1.)

Macintosh

I started to use a Mac at Helsinki University of Technology in 1986. Later, in 1987, I bought a Mac Plus. The first software which I bought was Turbo Pascal. The Mac and Turbo Pascal taught me much about using computers.

Nokia 8110i mobile phone

This was my first mobile phone. The banana-shape model is familiar from the first Matrix movie. I like this phone a lot, although the battery was problematic, especially the standard one which you had to charge rather often. But I still fondly remember this phone.

Chickens do not always enjoy an honorable position among city-bred people, although the egg, I notice, goes on and on. Right now the hen is in favor. The war has deified her and she is the darling of the home front, feted at conference tables, praised in every smoking car, her girlish ways and curious habits the topic of many an excited husbandryman to whom yesterday she was a stranger without honor or allure.

Entourage lacks badly in the spam filtering department compared to Mac OS X Mail for example. It classified at first some of the messages I sent to myself as spam. But I have to test this a bit more, because the spam filtering on Mail has been learning my preferences for a long time, and thus functions well.