Hi, my name is Isko Salminen.
I'm an adventure seeker and I love exploring nature with my camera and Australian Shepherd called Fire

Life is like IKEA furniture

Life is like IKEA furniture. Sometimes you have to take it apart so you can put it back together the right way.
— Chris Blake

I love this quote. And it's somewhat fitting as yesterday we spend seven hours building IKEA shelves in our walk-in closet.

How to “fix” iMessage when switching to a new iPhone

I switched from iPhone 4 (not 4S, just 4) to the new iPhone 5 week ago. After syncing all my data through iCloud and retyping all my passwords to different services I noticed that iMessages wasn't working properly. 

If someone send me iMessage to my email address, that came through but iMessages send to my phone number didn't come through as iMessages but as regular SMS's. Apparently this was caused by the way Apple handles iMessages: they are not related to your phone number, but instead to your device ID.

Here's how I got my iMessage working:

  1. If you still can access your old iPhone and it's still connected to the network (mine wasn't as they cut the connection the second they activated the new Nano SIM), go to Settings → Messages and switch off iMessages.
  2. Go to your Apple Support Profile page at https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do and remove your old iPhone from the list (click the product, click Unregister). This should remove your phone number linking to your old iPhone's ID.
  3. While we're here, let's register our new iPhone if it's not yet registered.
  4. On your new iPhone, go to Settings → Messages and first turn off iMessages and then on. This should cause your new iPhone to be associated with your phone number. Go to Send & Receive under Messages and double check that your phone number appears here.
  5. If you have other iOS devices, switch iMessage off and on on them as well.

This fixed iMessages for me. Let me know if you've found any other ways to fix this!

How to buy happiness

Fire

This is one of the first test photos I've taken with my new Olympus OM-D E-M5 and M. Zuiko Digital ED 12mm f/2.0 lens combo.

Arthur Koestler on discoveries

The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterward.
Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation, 1964

Happy birthday: Fire turns 3

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Today is Fire's third birthday, he's officially an adult now. Can't believe it has already been 2 and a half years since I took the trip to Frankfurt and came home with this little furry monster.

Steve Jobs

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs

​It's been a year.