A brief visist to London in the end of June to attend the kick-off meeting of the EuropeanaLocal project at Regents College.
On the negative side:
- Etihad was considerably less nice on this leg than I’ve become accustomed to from my previous flights with them travelling from Brussels to Abu Dhabi. Any basket is likely to have one rotten egg. Etihad’s seems to be the check-in attendant at Heathrow.
- The chairs at the conference venue were targeted more at efficient use of space rather than a comfortable sitting experience.
- The taxi drivers in London likes to rip me off.
On the positive side:
- The project kick-off was a success.
- The kick-off dinner
2007 was the year when Facebook, unfortunately, made it’s way into to (un)conciousness of most Norwegians. As the year grew older Facebook developed from merely being annoying to becoming entirely intolerable. I StumbledUpon pensionbook, while surfing the Internet this afternoon. It is a nice adaption of the Facebook concept applied on old people!
Click here to go to “pensionbook”
Following up on my previous searches conducted in May and August this year, here are the numbers for November 18th:
- Google reports “about 25 500 results” for the query “I hate Facebook”
- Google reports “about 22 200 results” for the query “I love Facebook”
Those in their right mind, who hate, still are in the lead, but the margin is shrinking towards the social-networking-addicts. Be strong brethren: We shall overcome! (We must!)
The anti-piracy organizations have a great challenge in trying to pass their message through to the vast multitude of Internet users who by now have grown accustomed to having unlimited amounts of free music and films freely available at their digital door-step. This film probably doesn’t contribute towards this goal either:
Best Anti-Piracy Ad Ever – Video
A recent study trip with Avinet’s “corporate mother”, Asplan Viak, took me to Berlin in the company of about 60 merry colleagues. Following a similar experience in Turin, Italy, last year my expectations were split. Happy, as always, when thinking of the opportunity to enjoy evenings out in good company – but at the same time fearing the quality of the food which usually suffers greatly when traveling in groups.
My doubts were however put to shame and I had some of the most enjoyable evenings out in a European city ever accompanied by good, solid German food. My thanks go out to Pål, chairman of the board of Avinet (and on other occasions excellent drinking pal), for urging me to come along. (more…)
