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Monday, August 6, 2007
![[Item Permalink]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/images/ur_bullet.gif){kind=small} Bookcrossing vs. second-hand book dealers -- Comment()
Every once in a while there are articles about bookcrossing in Finnish newspapers. I have never got interested in this, although I have bought and sold hundreds of books in second-hand book dealers. Sometimes I wonder what has happened to the books I have sold, but on the other hand this does not interest me quite so much. Each book has its own life, and I have to let it go.
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Where is the quality of electronics industry? -- Comment()
Nokia is not the only company having problems with quality. Sony has once again problems, now with digital cameras, resulting in Sony recalling Cyber-Shot DSC-T5: "Sony has issued a recall on its Cyber-Shot DSC-T5 digital camera after identifying a manufacturing fault. Affecting just over 400,000 cameras worldwide with serial numbers between 3500001 and 3574100, the fault relates to the metal skin covering the base of the camera." What are "acceptable" problems with quality and what are not? My experiences with Nokia phones are not encouraging, but I guess they are typical of the product quality for most electronics companies. My first mobile phone, a Nokia 8110i - the so-called banana model, shown in the first Matrix movie - was great, and I had no problems with it, only switching to a Nokia 3210 when I got fed up with the relatively short battery life. But then I have had a series of problems with Nokia phones: Nokia 6800, 9500, and 9300i, each of these running into mechanical and software problems.
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Yet another design problem with Nokia E90 -- Comment()
I had a second look on a Nokia E90 today. My Nokia 9300 is once again being repaired, this time the backlighting of the cover display is broken. The phone is a year old, and has been in repairs for over five weeks, on three different occasions, for multiple different reasons (corrupting memory cards, broken hinge, broken backlighting etc.). But anyway - the power on/off button on a Nokia E90 is easy to press by mistake, a colleague said, thus shutting the phone without meaning to. Perhaps there will be a Nokia E90i, fixing some of the problems.
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Unmasking Fake Steve Jobs -- Comment()
"Thanks for all the fish" - the keeper of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs was revealed by a reporter from The New York Times. I'm a bit sad to see this happen, the mystery is no more. It was nice to speculate on the blog entries, now you know that an editor at Forbes is writing the blog, and his position and opinions are apparent. The writing of FSJ was like the writing of a 14-year old boy - that is, not so nice, even rude sometimes, and suprising in many way. You don't see that kind of writing often nowadays, done properly, that is targeted to the bigger issues of today. What are the CEOs of big companies really thinking? I think most of us try to repress the 14-year old inside us, and thus we don't have what the youngster has to offer: creativity. We are dead inside.
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