Midsummer, or Juhannus as it is called around here, has come and gone and with it the longest day of the year. This is the view on the backyard that the Balecam showed at 1am, as you can see it was still pretty bright.

Although most finns go out of town during this holiday, I stayed in Helsinki to tidy up the house in preparation for my parents’ visit next week.

Following Vesa’s footsteps, I decided to make a first-person video of my bike trip to work, with head-mounted camera(phone) and all. The actual riding time is a bit over twenty minutes, but I shrunk it to two minutes for the attention span challenged. Watch with audio on!

P.S.: I have blogged about the route before.

P.P.S.: After looking at various video sharing services, I decided to go with Vimeo because of those I tried, it seemed to offer the best video quality. It is quite bandwidth hungry though.

After Garibaldi, Michelangelo and Al Capone, it was only a matter of time before Berlusconi got his own name attached to a pizza. The prime minister of Italy can thank the finnish “Koti Pizza” (”home pizza”) chain for the honor, and let’s hope this will help heal the finnish-italian gastro-diplomatic relationships that went sour a few years ago over some statements from the very same head of state. The ad says - I think -  “elected best pizza in the world” (although it could also say “mundane parhaaksi elect pizza” according to this automatic translator). I have no idea what the ingredients are, but knowing the finnish sense of humour I would bet there is parma ham.