Tequila Sunrise Sotkamo

Tequila Sunrise Sotkamo
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Tequila Sunrise Sotkamo. The un is rising at 8:28 from the south. Promising a beutiful day.

One hour later, the sun is much higher and this is a great outdoors day.

It' s time to get out to showel some snow and to prepare myself for cross-country skiing.

Southern people have arrived to Sotkamo to spend their skiing vacation.

The tempereature is now - 8 C.

Kassu

Kassu
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Kassu or Cassu, as the owner writes, is waiting for a fish dish.

Both Cats, Mörkö and Cassu moved back to Oulu on Sunday after a nine months stay in Sotkamo.

Learned a lot about the lifestyle of easy-going cats.

They really know how to relax and outside they are when the opportunity comes Angry to the Birds.

Dear readers, are you playing with the Angry Birds?

KK-Net

I needed this logo in another project and used this blog as a practical channel of transfer.

Tarvitsen tämän logon toisessa projektissa, toisella koneella. Tästä olen ottanut sloganin pois.

Reflections from the city of Kouvola

Reflections of the city of Kouvola
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Reflections from the city of Kouvola. The train is moving again: heading towards Kajaani.

I like to travel by train

Time to read and to reflect on things

Time to call and talk with friends and relatives

Time to write text messages and to take on-the-road photos

Travellers from Eastern Finland love to talk

I did read about the history of Ekokem

Ha ha we have a sun in Finland

Ha ha we have a sun in Finland
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Ha ha we have a sun in Finland

Ha-ha, it's getting wormer

Ha-ha, we still have lots of snow and more to come

Trala-la, spring starts after a few months

The pic was taken from a moving train

On my way from Kouvola to Riihimäki

I love to see how the nature is changing

Finland is beutiful - four seasons!

Morko loves boxes

Morko loves boxes
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Morko loves boxes. Yeah, that's right, Morko's behavior has been tested.

Social boxes are familiar to all of us.

We all live in boxes and silos, but most of us do not understand the limitations imposed.

What can we learn from cats and chats?


My point is that the understanding of social media is at a very early stage of adoption, understanding, and adaption.

We've a long way to go before we are ready to jump out of the boxes we've built around us to provide a primitive sensation of security.

Southern Africa

Southern Africa
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Southern Africa does have a meaning.

A small country, like Finland, needs to loog for new markets and nisches.

My opionon is that AFRICA is going to play an important role in the future:

I want to understand Africa just as well as China today.

Help me to succeed!

Happy New Year 2012

Happy New Year 2012
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Happy New Year 2012.

This year has been a great year.

The year 2012 will be a most interesting one for us.

There're a lot of things boiling ;)

Cats stretched out on the couch

Cats stretched out on the couch
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Cats stretched out on the couch.

Listening to Sibelius music from Musiikkitalo.

This year Christmas has been most relaxing.

We decided to take it easy and not too much fuss.

This is Sotkamo tonight

This is Sotkamo tonight
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

This is Sotkamo tonight.

I visite Sotkamon Siva to buy some final items for Christmas preparation.

We've 10 cm of snow but the weather is exceptionally warm for the end of December.

The temperature just around 0 C.

Happy Christmas

Bologna, Italy

Bologna, Italy
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Bologna, Italy. Back in Finland and trying to find out the idea of RCM from Wikipedia:


The methdod offers specific criteria to use when selecting a risk management strategy for a system that presents a specific risk when it fails.

Some are technical in nature. Others are goal-oriented. The criteria are often presented in the form of a decision-logic diagram, though this is not intrinsic to the nature of the process.

Identification of Safety Critical Elements (SCE) and maintaining associated pre defined performance standards is the foundation of asset integrity management.

The RCM process described in the DOD/UAL report recognized three principal risks from equipment failures: threats

• to safety,
• to operations, and
• to the maintenance budget.

Modern RCM gives threats to the environment a separate classification, though most forms manage them in the same way as threats to safety.

RCM offers four principal options among the risk management strategies:

• on-condition maintenance tasks,
• scheduled restoration or discard maintenance tasks,
• failure-finding maintenance tasks, and
• one-time changes to the "system" (changes to hardware design, to operations, or to other things).

Cats listening to my speach!

Cats listening to my speach!
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Cats listening to my speach! That's not true. Kassu and Morko do not care a bit what I say. They've a mindset with own priorities.

I did make some notes while watching television:

• a business model should be based on realism
• clients are much more complex than simplified target group definitions
• we need power to get our message out to collaborators around the globe

Sotkamo by night

Sotkamo by night
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Sotkamo by night two days ago. I'm working with the digital villages project and Biotechtouch details.

Planning to focus on local content.
Would like to create local audio story telling:
The average day is most interesting:
Searching for the extraordinary in ordinary life.

My initial thought is that there aren't big news to be broadcasted or narrow-casted from a small village, but that's not true. I'll be digging into the analogue past of Sotkamo and transform it into a digital form: text, video, picture, and audio.

Winter today

Winter today
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Winter today. The lake is frozen and we've just a little bit snow in Jataniemi.

I managed to do all the necessary works required in the garden and outdoors everything is ready for a new winter.

Let it snow, let it snow...

Creating new stereo and quality audio content with my new Zoom H2n handy recorder.

Sotkamo today

Sotkamo today
Originally uploaded by Helge V. Keitel

Sotkamo today: I was waiting for Irja and expanding my mobile communication.

I'm looking for practical ways to deliver micronews (snacks) from daily routine locations.

A long term target is to use these information snacks as building bricks for a more complete presentation of hyperlocal activities and services.

Small and trivial microevents may have an importance for tourists and visitors.

Intelligent machines the future of mechanical engineering

We have an Intelligent Machines collaborative and networking cluster program operating in Finland.  I’m reading a publication that gives an overview of Finnish expertise in mechanical engineering and its diversity.

Finnish mechanical engineering has a number of world class areas, and we have strong companies such as Konecranes, ABB, Wartsila and Metso. In addition, we have a strong work machine cluster and an advanced operations support network between the main contractor and sub-contracting activities.

- We have excellent international success stories in this field – and more is yet to come, says Toni Sulameri, Vice President, Hermia Oy.

Physical and Intelligent machines are needed, regardless of the changes in economic trends in the production and transport of different kinds of commodities, even though ICT and virtual technology have been developing strongly.

Energy producing machines and appliances are needed to operate the machines. New technologies help to avoid overload situations, optimize a journey, allowing safe operation of machines and optimizing energy use.

Machines using sensory devices can work independently and release people from carrying out potentially dangerous tasks. Intelligent machines may also work smoothly alongside people.

Our expertise in research and product development guarantees that machines are going to be even more intelligent in the future. The most challenging goals are to take steps towards internationalization and the development concepts for SMS-sized enterprises.

• intensified utilization of mechanical engineering
• greater technological expertise and rapid response to customer needs
• the service industry is growing as a part of machinery exports
• new technologies can be applied to transform traditional industries
• knowledge-based sectors are invited to crowd source and collaborate for new solutions
• low energy consumption and activity based costing should guide research and development
• minimizing environmental impacts: green machines that are increasingly electric or hybrid-powered
• emphasis should be placed on ease of use, UI, human-machine-interaction

When this over

Europe has changed a lot since the second world war; during my lifetime. Still, we think that the old continent has stagnated and is unable to innovate.

Yet, Europe is an innovative society. This continent is not as trigger-happy as the Americans. But we're getting older, that's a fact and creates problems.

Are we going to witness the spring of Northern Africa this year?

What could be the role of EU in the transformation of Africa to a more democratic and prosperous continent?

Communities Dominate Brands: Some Symbian Sanity - why Nokia will not join Google Android or Microsoft Phone 7

Communities Dominate Brands: Some Symbian Sanity - why Nokia will not join Google Android or Microsoft Phone 7: "I had a great meeting with my dear friend Ewan MacLeod the editor of Mobile Industry Review and a deeply insightful commentator on the mobile industry, as he visited Hong Kong last week. We had a good discussion about smartphones and both were astonished by the continuing rumors about Nokia operating system future options. All that speculation about 'when' or 'if' Nokia will migrate its smartphones to Google's Android operating system or to Microsoft's Phone 7 (the successor to Windows Mobile). This is ridiculous. Nokia is executing a migration strategy from dumbphones to smartphones - excellently, one might add, and has the best strategy of any handset vendors, for its smartphones.

– Lähetetty Google-työkalupalkin välityksellä"

Interpret in your own way

Integrate your song to the hearthland and rural context.

Years and years of text and songs sculpted out of empty darkness of a creative mind.

That process might end. It's a huge junkyard of garbage; make the songs out of that. There is plenty of stuff to select from.

Somebody is going to get hurt tonight. I watch a movie and wish to create my own sets of micro-movies.