Starbucks

The town in which I'm staying doesn't have a Starbucks.

That can be a good thing. For example, Helsinki is also free of the chain. Well there weren't any in November when I last visited. They do, however, have a local equivalent, Roberts, but if anything that adds to the charm of the city. It's not like there's a Roberts-pincer movement on you when you go shopping.

Anyway, Helsinki doesn't have any Starbucks. Neither does the town in which I'm currently staying (I'm not going to call it my town).

There is no other similarity. Helsinki has nice blondes, and saunas, nice crisp beer and really nice chocolate (Fazer, you should try it). I've tried them all.

There's nothing like that in this town. And I do nothing here, never go out or socialise.

So, despite spending many hours on the Internet job hunting I then spend more hours casually browsing.

I'm quite keen on the gadget web sites, e.g. Gizmodo and Engadget. But in recent days I've looked further afield. Today I found Chip Cheek. Unlike any other gadget blog site I recently seen this one mentioned Browster.

This is a really good add-in for your browser. It opens up a link without you having to click on it. JC do you live your life so fast? Well, when you're skimming through up to 10,000 jobs a day this sort of thing can really help.

It doesn't work too well on Firefox at the moment. I'm hoping they get it fully working but meantime I may have to go back to using IE..