The weather in Finland appears to be a secret they keep from the world, I'm sure on the weather reports you never hear of Helsinki being in the 30s. They probably tell everyone Finland is always cold and dark to keep the tourists away from their beaches.

For anyone else out there with a new ThinkPad which throws a hissy fit when it resumes with SectorNotFound errors, the solution is to turn off the Hard Drive Pre-Desktop Area (or something like that) in the BIOS, under Security. Good old Matthew Garrett has a patch and I presume it will reach mainline kernels shortly. Now suspend/resume fails for other reasons, but Matthew knows about those too.

Da Boss Matthew introduced me to Iittala whilst on a wander around Helsinki to find food, a contemporary Finnish design store selling homeware (cups, vases, etc). Very cool stuff.

Helsink airport is a terrible, terrible place, for two main reasons. One: there are no power points in the lounge which is not good as I only had 5% charge left. Two: the Stockman sells a large amount of Iittala stuff... A surprisingly low number of Euros later I bought two espresso cups and a large bowl.

Very, very cool.

Now I best get on with work, I'm away in Cornwall all next week and have a huge patch to review.

NP: Asia Borninch, DJ Shadow