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As an ex-pat, right now I'm feeling quite annoyed with myself that I didn't get myself registered as a voter. But then, I'd likely vote in Illinois, which is already going for Obama...

While waiting for the results to come, you can always enjoy some election related music. First, naturally, Alice Cooper for president. And then from one of my favorite bands in my youth, When I'm President.

Well, Lightroom 2 is here. And yes, I’ll be upgrading very soon.
But the upgrade pricing has, again, raised a sore point with me in regard to Adobe’s pricing policies. The upgrade costs $99 in the States and 99€ in Europe (both prices will be adjusted with tax). With the current currency levels this means that [...]

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First of all, let me start off with an alternate title for this post: Neil Creek hates me. At least it would’ve been a catchy and provocative title. But I seriously doubt that it’d be true.
Neil Creek did write a good post on 10 things he hates about Flickr (at its users). Go read it. [...]

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The more I’ve studied retrievers (mainly flatcoats and goldens) around the world, the more confused I’ve become by the various terms that are used to describe tests, trials, and such. Since we blog about our dogs bilingually and have a large amount of foreign readers, I’ve decided to write a description of how Finnish retrievers’ [...]

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To those visitors coming from the Photonovice results, this is my primary blog with written content.
The statistics were gathered from the Life of Jalo, which is our dogs photoblog. The pictures are taken by myself or Anna.
My own photoblog with pictures of whatever (including the occasional dog ;) is at shutterclicks.

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