Here’s the case: Last year Thomas Nodland, who was 20, lost his driver’s licence because of ‘lack of sobriety’. There are of course lots of people who (rightfully!) lose their license each year because of mixing alcohol and driving. However… Thomas had not been stopped for drunk driving. His license had been taken from him […]
Finally some justice / common sense… Read More »
The last week my sister and her family have been visiting us. Always a pleasure. However, the Norwegian Customs (Tollvesenet), seems to consider them a risk. At least more than the hundreds of cars with Norwegian plates which pass their checkpoint at Svinesund every day. Within 5 days, during which my sister and family stayed
How Norwegian Customs use (waste?) their resources… Read More »
NB: Don’t miss the updated info at the bottom of this post! Last night I decided I was going to upgrade my Samsung Galaxy S phone to Android 2.2 (aka Froyo). After installing the newest version of Kies (Kies_1.5.3.10093_82.exe) I decided to go for it. The entire process took about 10 minutes, and went without
Upgraded my phone to Froyo -> Android Market gone! Read More »
Today I finally made the decision and retired my (still in good shape) Nokia N900 and got myself a Samsung Galaxy S at the local store. After charging it and applying the ext4 lag fix I was good to go. (Showing that the lagfix installed without any problems whatsoever got one of my colleagues to
Got myself a Samsung Galaxy S Android phone! Read More »
I get this question quite often lately: ‘What is the best Android phone available?, or ‘What is the fastest Android phone?’ Questions like these are not easy to answer, since there isn’t really a mutually accepted benchmark program out there which works equally good with all Android devices available. There’s linpack, which is a CPU
Best Android phone available as of now? Read More »
Curious whether you’re popular online? Want to increase your network? Well, nowadays the ways to go are Twitter & Facebook, so your first step would be creating a account & profile on both. (I’ve done this ages ago. My account on Facebook I created when a friend invited me. I do not recall who got
A way to measure popularity online? Read More »