Long time, no posting, sorry about that. I'll try to be more active in the future but I haven't even had to write to my work blog inside Nokia which used to be pretty active. I don't even have time to really read any blogs nowadays, I'm lucky if I can crawl through the Dilberts once a week.
Okay, enough chit-chat and metablogging and on to the topic. Don't you find it creepy that someone's actually planning his own funeral and advertising the whole thing to everyone all the time? Because this is what's happening with the rock radio channel Radio City in Finland. Their broadcasting license ends and they have to stop their channel. Now they're organizing a goodbye party and the listeners can vote on the last song to be played on the channel and so on.
I'm gonna miss the channel (good music) and I don't quite understand how something like this can happen. In Finland the radio frequences are governed by the goverment and they decide who can have and what kind of channels. Radio City in my knowledge was doing well financially so SBS Radio would have wanted to continue but can't because they don't have a license. So the goverment is actually deciding how the radio landscape in Finland looks like. The officials are really patronizing here so I shouldn't be surprised but still this makes me sad.
I listen to a lot of radio in the car while I'm driving and at home when I'm working remotely and Radio City was one of my two radio channels so this affects me quite a lot. Perhaps I have to listen more music from my iPod but that's just not the same thing. By the way bying a radio with line in and hooking up your iPod to it via an audio cable is really nice way of listening to music. Headphones are pretty restricting (if you don't need them because of coworkers) and dealing with CDs is a pain so iPod+radio works nicely. Now I just have to get myself one of those radio transmitters for my iPod so I can listen to my own records easily in the car as well.