The user experience of driving on E6 when it rains
E6 is one of the main motorways in Norway, connecting the country from South to North, from Oslo (at least) all the way to the northermost tip. Norway is a very rich country, with larger budget surplus, a rather “fat” oil fund and prospects of increasing wealth. Yet E6 is an old, tiny road. No [...]
Why is ordering real estate prospects on finn.no so difficult?
Summer is roundabout over here in Norway, schools have started again, the birch woods show their first yellow leaves and I am back using finn.no. And I realized one thing that has bothered me for a long while. I am a registered user, and, as I mentioned, I use finn.no very often. Yet…..
POS Payment terminals: a visual review
As promised in a previous post (Bad experience with POS payment terminals), and after the vacation break, I am uploading a visual review of (some) POS payment terminals. The document is not menat to be comprehensive, but rather illustrative and - more importantly - “open”. By open I mean that I will update it [...]
GPS: Labeling and doing two things at the same time
GPS navigation for cars still have a way to go before perfect. A while ago, as a passenger from Oslo to Lista in Norway, I got to examine a TomTom GPS screen real estate a bit more thorough, and found an odd detail. Whenever driving South-West, the arrow in the lower left corner of the [...]
Technorati fails on login failure
Last night I was going to visit the Technorati site so manage some blogs I have registered over there. It was a first time login with the new laptop, and in the old I had stored the password in Firefox password manager. Hence I tried a password being unsure if it was the correct one.
Toyota.no: did I manage to order a service?
I have just visited the Toyota.no page to order online a service for my car. The form is alright enough, and anyway it is not the focus of this short post. I have filled in the form in its entirety and I have appreciated the interaction of the type of service specification (especially the visual [...]
Why couldn’t Dell keep the usual keyboard layout on the Vostro series?
When changing computer, there’s always a number of adjustments one has to make. New hardware, new software, results, new habits. Sometimes though the adjustments required are significant, and may have a long learning curve, with a bothersome (and long) transitional time. Like in the case of my last laptop, and its new keyboard layout.
Bad experience with POS payment terminals
I am inaugurating vdl Labs with a post on POS payment terminals. They have been bugging me ever since I moved to Norway (now over 8 years ago). The reason is not so much linked to anyone terminal, even though some of those are badly designed. The real bad thing about them is that there [...]