Urban Exploration: Abandoned Villas II

October 19, 2011 · Posted in Adventure!, Urban Exploration · Comment 

Last Sunday Susi and I headed over to what’s probably the best known urban exploration location in Helsinki, Kruunuvuori. It’s an area with a bunch of wooden villas that date from the early 20th century (some, perhaps, from late 19th century), and which have been variously occupied and abandoned throughout the years. All of them are now slowly falling prey to the forces of nature and teenage hormonal idiocy.

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The Dismal State of e-Book Editing – Case: Terry Pratchett’s “Snuff”

Ever since I bought the Kindle a year ago, I’ve been a big fan of e-books and this autumn I’ve spent quite some time learning to make them. One thing has started to annoy me about many commercial ebooks: far too many of them are littered with all kinds of encoding errors: extra line breaks, missing spaces between words, indents turning into empty lines, etc. It seems like this problem has been getting worse, not better, during this last year, and now I ran into the total nadir of this: the Kindle-edition of “Snuff” by Terry Pratchett.

A nice introduction to the book…

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