The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in finland, fishkeeping on May 6th, 2008
In a surprising turn of events, one of the most famed aquarist-explorers of the world was recently taken fishing just outside Helsinki.
The pictures are again very nice. And the gobies and shrimps would probably make quite good pets, perches tend to be predatory and the big cyprinids are just boring.
Posted in fishkeeping on May 5th, 2008
Spent the morning of april’s last sunday in FISU 2008.
Saw two presentations, the first of which overlasted its welcome (and not only on account of technical difficulties) and the second one could easily have lasted way longer.
The first show of the day was the second presentation by Heiko Bleher, this time […]
Posted in fishkeeping on May 5th, 2008
Last week was just plain horrible, when finding a decent slot to write was concerned Hence, this entry (and its soon-to-arrive brother) about the finnish aquarium conference are a week late.
Indeed, spent the last april saturday at FISU 2008 at the Haaga/Helia college in Pasila. The session was organized by the local fishkeepers’ […]
Posted in fishkeeping on Apr 19th, 2008
Quite out of the blue arrives a collection of quality aquarium-related presentations next weekend.
Fisu 2008 features mostly international speakers - including Heiko Bleher, who has travelled far and wide in his quest for yet more exotic fish. The two finnish speakers (Markku Varjo and Pertti Rassi) are in good company, and […]