Sun and thunder

for you are the sun
and you are the thunder:
in sunlight I run,
and you are the sun
that fills me with fun,
that fills me with wonder
for you are the sun
and you are the thunder

Complements

When good hot tea
Encountered cream;
When passioned truth
Met passioned dream;
When all the sky
Met all the sea...
And I met Katie,
She met me.

When good fried fish
First met with chips;
When longing lips
Encountered lips;
When squirrel once
Met silver fir...
Katie met me.
I met her.

Spod client

Another thing I would like to write for the N900 is a very simple spod client. I am fed up of spodding using telnet. J/Pling/Marble, would it be okay if it shipped with Snowplains as the default site to connect to?

My last night in Helsinki

It's my last night in Helsinki, at least this time around, so I thought I'd do a bit more exploring. Helsinki on the ground never seems to bear much resemblance to the map. Streets seem to vanish and re-materialise again later. Daf had recommended a place called Dong Bei Hu for dinner. After some wandering, I found it, and asked for a table for one. The staff looked me up and down and said they were full; I don't know whether I was too scruffy to eat there or whether they were actually full, or both. So I was a bit hungry, and wishing someone would hurry up and port Urbanspoon to the N900. (Yes, I know I could have used the website, but I would also have been wishing Urbanspoon covered Finland in the first place. And I had forgotten eat.fi. More fool me.)

But very soon, I found the cathedral, which made up for being hungry:



It's rather large and very beautiful. I went inside, but it seemed rude to take pictures of that. There was a café in the crypt, but they close at 17:00, for some reason, just when people might be wanting to have dinner there.



On the way back, I went into an Indian restaurant but nobody came to help me and I left after a minute or so. Then I found a Chinese place called Tang Dynasty who were helpful, and I ate there.



After that I came back to the hotel and started coding. I have to be at the airport at five, so I'm planning to stay up. Unfortunately, the fire alarm went off: it wasn't an actual fire, but I'm on the ninth floor and I'm too sensible to use the lifts, so it was a long walk. The fire brigade came and walked around: they wear black uniforms with the city arms on the back (a crowned boat).