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Helsinki transport & Finnish Punctuality
Monday November 23rd, 2009. 12:39 PM. Published under Finland culture, Music, Photos, Videos, helsinki. 4 Comments.
Finnish people are punctual. If they say 11 o’clock, is 11′oclock. Even between friends more than 10-15 minutes delay is considered rude. In Spain… how could I say… we take time in a more relaxed way generally 
This photo is the bus schedule from a City Bus in center of Helsinki. 3 main sections: Ma-Pe (Monday-Friday), La (Saturday), Su (Sunday). First row (in bold) you see the hour (18 for example), and the column under represents the minutes (18:10, 18:24, etc.)
Besides of the strange way of representing the timetable, it amazes me its accuracy . If it says there that the bus number 20 is going to be at 18:52 in that stop… it will be there (90% of times). Spanish urban buses timetables normally only say tells frequency (for example “every 15 minutes”).
In Helsinki every year is sent to home a small book containing all routes and timetables of urban transport (bus, metro, tram).
All this is nice, but in the end is paper, very 20th century thing. Is it not supposed to be Finland a high-technology country? (more…)
Sustainable forest management in Finland
Saturday August 15th, 2009. 01:37 AM. Published under Finland culture, Music. 1 Comment.
Yesterday I fund the article “Most sustainable forest of the world” in El País (main newspaper in Spain), where they talk mainly about 3 topics:
1. Forest in Finland: 85% of Finland is forest (23 millions of hectares), of wich:
- 95% of them have sustainable certificate (they are social, economically and environmental equilibrated)
- 60% of them is private.
- All of them is under the concept of EveryMan’s Right, I talked other day.
Compared with Spain, only 7% of Spanish forest (1.123.000 hectares) has this certificate of sustainable, but it’s growing.
2. Modern machines for cutting/preparing trees. Monsters capable of prepare a tree in 1 minute. In the right sidebar of the article there is a video showing this machine, but of course in youtube you can find more videos about this machines.
3. Process to make a forest sustainable: 30 years minimum of waiting for cutting again, re-foresting, etc. and also is important that companies who purchase paper or wood should demand the certificate of sustainable to the provider, as spanish comany Zara, or Tetra Pack.
If you visit/live in Helsinki city, probably you won’t see this wood industry, but going inside of the country and you will see different samples of this industry everywhere, like this photo in Pirkanmaa region:
Video: Kid Cudi - Make her say
Saturday July 25th, 2009. 01:48 AM. Published under Music, Videos. No Comments.
I didn’t know this artist before but I loved this video for his new single Make Her Say, appearing alongside his collaborators Kanye West and Common. Excellent photography in split-screen with catchy chorus sampling the hit Lady Gaga - Poker Face.
Director Nez Khammal from Colonel Blimp house (same as great Dougal Wilson and french Pleix)
Watch the video here (or clicking over the image)
Fliis, instant song search
Thursday April 9th, 2009. 01:05 PM. Published under Music. 2 Comments.
When you want to find a song fastly that comes to your head, what’s your method? Mine it was to look it in youtube.com or Radioblog.
But today I have discovered the ultimate song searcher: Fliis. (based on Youtube API) Test it! You will not regret. And you can make playlists. Check these 3 songs.
Spanish crisis in Finnish TV
Saturday April 4th, 2009. 08:04 AM. Published under About the blog, Job, Music, Opinion, Spain. 20 Comments.
A Finnish TV channel has created a short documentary about Spanish crisis. After the crazy growth of the construction last years and speculation, the happy days are finished. The bubble has burst. Nowadays Spain has the highest unemployment rate in all Europe and many families with economic difficulties.
Estepona
Wednesday March 25th, 2009. 12:20 PM. Published under Music, People, Spain, Videos. 3 Comments.
Promoting my hometown… ESTEPONA (Málaga)
Estepona, in the coast of Málaga is renowned for its beaches, which stretch along some 21 km of coastline. Bordering with Marbella, its population in 2007 is 65.0000. More data en Wikipedia.
When here snow starts to melt, in Estepona people starts to go to the beach… it’s not fair, not.
Jenkki with Åke Blomqvist
Tuesday March 17th, 2009. 11:54 AM. Published under Finland culture, Music, Videos. No Comments.
Do you remember this viral video of a teacher of disco dancing a couple of years ago? Well, I saw it, but I didn’t know that is FINNISH. Exactly his name is Åke Blomqvist and it’s a famous Finnish dance teacher. The song is called Moskau by Dschinghis Khan , there is also a Finnish version of the song called Volga by Frederik. Enjoy! I love it.
Now Jenkki, a chewing gum/candys brand very popular in Finland wants to rescue his virality. I saw a lot of print ads, billboards and TV commercials during the begining of 2009. I wanted to write about it before, but I didn’t see any video in Internet or Youtube. Finally last week I saw that they publish it in jenkki.fi, but …. in the moment I’m writing this I check and it’s not anymore in the front page. I don’t understand why. Anyway, you can access by this url still, I don’t know for how long. http://www.jenkki.fi/twisted/twisted.swf. (screenshot). And also someone put it in youtube:
The name of the song is Ernst August Quellen Weekend Twist
Stats
Tuesday March 10th, 2009. 06:50 AM. Published under About the blog, Music, Spain. 3 Comments.
It’ only 3 months I have started this blog Corbacho en Finlandia, but it’s growing fast
I have to say thanks to PixelyDixel for publishing a couple of videos I recommend them (Signs and Nascar) and backlink to me, to 4ºD for backlink to me when they published Lisa and thanks to Error500 for his invitation to Spotify at the beginning of the year. I also applied for a invitation for Spotify in that time and because I had it already, I decided to give it in the blog.
And Google has considered that my post is relevant for the search query “invitacion spotify” (invitation in Spanish), since it’s the second result after spotify.com.
So I have about 25 daily visits of people looking for invitations. It’s frustating since I don’t have any more. What can I do to help them? I have emailed to Lutz Emmerich, Country Manager Spotify Spain and he replied me that still you can ask for an account without invitation in this web, but soon they will close it. So be fast!
Invitation for Spotify
Monday January 12th, 2009. 09:33 AM. Published under Music. 46 Comments.
I have one invitation for Spotify, a beta program for listening music online (for Windows and Mac). Simply search the song that you want and play it (but doesn’t let to download it). Also it offers you the possibility of play similar songs and artists, so it’s a way to discover new bands.
- Really good quality sound,
- easy mac-style-user interface,
- radio that you can customize.
- Legal and free.
Bad things:
- Not for Linux
- Mainly mainstream music,
The first one to comment, will recieve the invitation (put a valid email).
Sliimy’s Womanizer song cover
Monday December 29th, 2008. 05:02 AM. Published under Music. No Comments.
Although I don’t like the original, and probably you neither, and I honestly never thought I would be mentioning Britney Spears on here, give a try to this cover of Britney Spears - Womanizer, made by the french Sliimy. Watch in Youtube. Extract the mp3 youtube videos with this tool, www.listentoyoutube.com
