After checking out two more flats (one near liverpool stn, the other near victora), I decided it was time to reward myself with some scrabble/fun time.

After a short train ride, I arrived in Clapham - a lovely area in southern London:

Where upon I was greeted by several redditors:

Naturally I had no expectations of beating the native speakers, but at least I didn't come last ;)

After munching down some Fairtrade (when did that happen?) Kitkat...

I went to an apartment showing in Bricklane:

Across from the flat is a Swedish cafe called Fika (means Snack btw)...is the universe giving me a hint?

The flat itself was okay ... I've got a few more showings booked until Moday. Let's see how that goes....

This post will serve two purposes.

1. To let me try posting with Bilbo Blogger
2. Point out some observations/thoughts since I moved to Helsinki

If you can read this post, it means that 1 actually worked. Bravo - this is one sweet app. Automagically configured everything for me given the address to my Drupal site and user+pass. Try Bilbo Blogger today.

2...

• Weather is identical to Oslo, maybe a degree or two colder
• People are actually more timid/quiet in Finland than Norway/Sweden. That says allot.
• Food in the company cafeteria is awesome (wide selection, high quality)...but not free: 5.50€
• Work is quite a bit more intense than in the Oslo office. You can definitely feel the stress/tempo of the "We need to get to market ASAP" mentality. I guess this is what working at a game company is like.
• I have a sweet steam-punk elevator.
• I need to make a "fast-forward" video of me going to work, featuring said elevator.

I look forward to learning more about Helsinki. A big bummer that I've been slightly sick basically the whole time since I arrived. I'm almost well now though, so that's good I guess.

Finally, It really sucks that some folks at Nokia got laid off. Despite it only being something like 1% of the workforce, it still stings to know some of the people leaving. You guys will be missed, and I hope we can all still keep in touch wherever you end up :)

Finally, to continue with point #1, I'm going to try to attach an image to this post, let's see if it works...

if it *did* work, then what you're seeing is the feature I added to Quassel (an AMAZING IRC client) last weekend - spell checking :)

That's all for now. Totally time for some sleepy action.

This is a post to test bilbo blogger again. Mtux mentioned improved Drupal support- so here we go! :)

This text should be bold

There should be a comic panel above.

This should also be tagged as noise and (new tag) bilbo.

Just wanted to wish everyone happy holidays before the new year passes as well :)