Sunday, May 19, 2013

I am too certain of the measure of these days

Here are some more photographs from last weekend. I haven't had time to process any of the newer photographs. Spring has advanced quite a lot within this week.

Yesterday I went with the two older daughters to Nuuksio, to the north part, east of lake Saarijärvi. There is a parking place at Yli-Takkula, and from there one can walk via paths to the south shore of Saarijärvi.

Near the south corner of Saarijärvi are two places listed as worth seeing in the Espoo guide to nature. (In Finnish, "Saarijärven silokallio" and "Espoon korkein kohta".)

We visited both places. The smooth rock at the lake shore was nothing really remarkable, and the highest point of Nuuksio wilderness area wasn't that remarkable either at 114,5 meters above sea level. By the way, the height is usually given as 114,2 meters, but there has been new measurement since 1.12.2012, and the height is now 30 cm higher than it used to be.

(Posting title is from the poem The Measure by Jay Wright.)

Saturday, May 18, 2013

That I might know the knowing

I'm still posting photographs from last weekend. Sunday evening I went with the two older daughters for a walk in the forests at Vaakkoi, visiting three lakes there: Vaakkoi, Saaren-Musta and Väärä-Musta. The ground is no longer as wet as it was, so it was possible to use sneakers for walking instead of rubber boots.

(Posting title is from the poem Of What is Real by Richard Tagett.)

And cheep and twitter twenty million loves

Did I tell that my Twitter account was restored from suspension? No explanation was given for the suspension, but my requests for restoring access had some effect, after over three days of no access to the Twitter account. I'm not too happy with how Twitter handled the situation, it seems that this is a company that doesn't have much resources in terms of customer support.

And apparently I'm not the only one with similar problems. Funnily enough, Twitter sent me a weekly message "Here's what's trending on Twitter this week", and one of the trending topics was suspension of Twitter accounts. But it seems that here the reason was too frequent use of period (.) in the start of Twitter messages, which I never do, as I haven't used the reply function, only occasional retweets. For me, no explanation was given for the suspension.

I have been a user since 2007 or so, with 2,296 tweets, 67 followers and 62 users to follow. I would say I'm rather modest user, selective in what I do with Twitter.

After the case of the account suspension I'm not sure how much I'll be using Twitter in the future. It has some good points, being much less "social" than Facebook or Google+, both of which I find offensive in their urging to enlarge networks and follow people. Twitter seems to be opposite - after the account suspension it felt as if they don't want users at all.

(Posting title is from the poem The Princess: O Swallow by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.)