Arto's Blog

Two days ago was the shortest day and longest night of the year on thenorthern hemisphere of our planet. Now the light has won again, everyday is a little bit longer than the previous one. The autumn here in Southern Germany has been mostly sunny… more »

Since August 2010 I'm living in Germany together with my girlfriendSandra. I've learned a new language and gotten used to not having tobuy food in a supermarket any more. I continue to work part-time, butnow from home instead of going to an office.… more »

My website was moved to a new server this week and at the same time the blog software was upgraded to the latest stable version. After a few initial problems everything should work now more or less as before. However, if you notice that something is brok… more »

I just installed the reCAPTCHA system to prevent comment spam in this blog. Whenever you want to write a comment to one of the articles, you will need to type two words displayed in an image before clicking the "Send comment" button. For exampl… more »

Last January, somebody had made a snow cat in the Helsinki central park. There it was sitting quietly on a wooden plank, smiling and looking at people passing by. I'm sure many of them smiled back and became just a bit happier because of the cat.… more »