So it’s that time of the year again. Looking back, looking forward and often setting new resolutions at least intended to last a few months. While I mostly don’t bother, I did set two goals to conquer.
Archive for category The Real World
New year’s resolutions
Jan 8
Flight time database
Jul 9
So I do travel by plan from time to time – and everywhere I can find out when I depart (in local time at the departing port) and when I land (in local time on the destination). I cannot however find the (estimated) flight time anywhere, when booking the ticket – why is that? And [...]
Brand stores
Jun 15
It’s been a growing trend among strong brands to open stores on prestigious places to promote and show case their products. Some companies however does it a lot better than others… and so far Apple takes the number one place from my point of view.
The IKEA challenge
Jun 2
Shopping in our (almost) local IKEA is a pain – it’s just too small to house all the stuff the want to sell. Despite this, we went a bought a bed for our guestroom. It was crowded and a Citröen C4 just isn’t build for bulky packages. Anyway we loaded the packages into the car, [...]
In case you’re wondering…
Jul 20
The blog isn’t dead or terminated. I’m just busy. At work we’re working on several interesting things, and on this site I’m slowly beginning to implement a long overdue redesign – since the server crash almost a year ago, things have been pretty messy under (and over) the hood of this site. It will – [...]
Simens Gigasets are amazing
Apr 29
Almost ten years ago I bought a Siemens Gigaset for my fixed phone at home. It consisted of a base station (“Gigaset 2060ISDN“) and two wireless handsets (“Gigaset 2000Comfort”). A year later I bought an extra handset. Now several years after – and several Gigaset-generations later – I bought two extra handsets (“Gigaset S44“). It’s [...]
Merry Christmas
Dec 24
It’s been a busy December and there hasn’t been much time for Christmas lights and other holiday celebrations on the site, but to everyone passing by we’re wishing you a Merry Christmas – and what a wonderful Christmas gift from the weather – all white outside and still snowing… to bad is seems to be [...]
Airplane experiences
Dec 8
Airliners seem to have a hard time remodelling their businesses. With the rise of budget airlines (EasyJet, RyanAir and others) some conventional carries has tried to change their business to secure their continued existence – some with more luck than others. My latest travel with Maersk Air was some disappointment.
Our Markup Wizard abandoned ship today. Too bad, but that’s life I guess. Good luck at the new place.
Hard times with EasyCar
Oct 21
While EasyJet seem to be an appropriate name for the airline in my experiences, their sibling EasyCar is a quite different matter. Two months ago my parents booked and paid for a rental car in Portugal. When they arrived however – the staff at National/Alamo, which is the EasyCar agent in Portugal – told them, [...]