When I started to blog about one year ago, I thought that it would be only a small experiment how to use social media such Twitter, Youtube and WordPress together and then sit back and watch what happens. It wasn’t like that. It actually requires quite a lot of effort to blog. Now that I’ve been experimenting this about a year, it’s time to write something about it. But first I want to thank you that you have read my blog.

So here are the facts.

Statistics

• 42 blog posts and and over 90 comments
• 113969 hits and 35612 unique visits from 150 countries and territories
• Most visits from Finland, USA, United Kindom, German and France
• Most visits from Nokia Group Network
• About 60% of visitors have visited more than once and 40% are first timers
• The most used mobile device is iPhone, the second is Android

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If you have read my blog actively, you might have noticed that I haven’t written any technical stuff for a while. The reason for this is that I’m quite busy at work and the spring has arrived here in Finland. The first reason means that I have less time for my blog at the moment. The second reason means that I can spend time outdoors (you know the stuff that you usually do outside like barbecue, digging holes in the ground and put something there to grow, photograph, etc).

I have couple of topics in my head now and I will write something about those asap I have time for that. Oh yes, if you are interesting in Nexus One, I have one for sale:) I might even write couple of photographing related blog articles in my other blog: http://croppikenno.blogspot.com/ which is in Finnish.

Have a nice spring time, enjoy the Sun!

My trip to San Francisco didn’t go as it was planned to go. I guess, at this point, you know that it was because of the volcano in Iceland. In my previous post I wrote how did I spend some time in SF, now I’m telling you how did I get back from there.

San Francisco Skycrapers

I originally supposed to leave from SF on Saturday 17th, but because the ash cloud, my flights were moved to Tuesday 21st. After spending couple of days and waiting for sky and everything to get more clear, I decided to spend Sunday for trying to find my own way back to Europe. At that point it really looked that Paris where my flight suppose to fly, would stay closed as it did. Another thing that didn’t help was the fact that there was a weekend in Finland, meaning that our people were not at work and traveling agency was not open. Spending couple of hours for trying to get what-ever-flight to Europe. Finally I managed to book a flight to Dallas and from there to Madrid. So my plan was to get to the Europe and from there I can try to get what-ever-transportation back to Finland.

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I will go to the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2010 in San Francisco next week. I’m especially interested in the following presentations:

• MeeGo: A Free & Standard Linux OS for the Mobile Industry
• MeeGo Work Group
• I have not yet decided what presentations to watch on Friday

Btw, because my trip is payed by my employer I will write at least one blog post to our company’s technology blog (http://www.cybercomchannel.com). I hope to see at least some of my blog readers there. It’s always nice to chit-chat with other nerds. I can’t wait for the next MeeGo Summit and Qt Developer days…

Cu and thanks for reading my blog.

You might have noticed that I don’t have any sponsors for my blog and I’d like to keep it that way. No adds and other commercial stuff can be found from my blog. IMHO is that adds are damn annoying. The exception can be that if I notice that some companies have done something interesting, I can promote it. Like I did with Uiemo video which is provided by Tieto. So this was just for your information that this blog is my personal blog and it’s not sponsored by any companies.

I like to test Qt related technologies on N900. It usually gives a good picture of the performance, but now I have a problem. There is only couple months left and then I need to send my borrowed N900 back to Nokia. Yes, I was also one of the lucky ones who had a chance to borrow the device for 6 months. I don’t want to pay almost 600 euros by myself and therefore I’m asking if someone wants to sponsor this blog and my work here by donating a N900.

Other thing that I would really need is a new laptop. I’d prefer to have MacBook Pro, but basically any laptop with enough processing power (dual  core, 4G memory, NVidia Graphics card) would go. These two things would really help me to continue to with this blog.

So if you will donate N900 or a laptop, what will you get? I will write an article of the donations and mention you or your company name there. That’s it:) If you want to do a donation, please contact me first via email: marko.a.mattila(at)gmail.com. Thanks for reading my blog.