Skråfoto
Gulesider has a "skråfoto" option for its maps. I've used this several times to not just find out where I'm going, but to see a picture of a place so I know what I'm looking for. I particularly like...
View Article“If they insist upon wearing the headscarf, they can be something other than...
Some Norwegian authors have signed a statement against allowing police to wear the hijab. Fucking idiots! This really makes me mad. Norway is hardly the most equal land in the world if it refuses to...
View ArticleAda is famous!
I submitted some pics of Ada to the lol Builder on the Cheezburger network. Some of the results were really clever---this one actually got chosen to appear on their site. I'll post more of the results...
View ArticleMore on the Hijab issue
Aftenposten had a good editorial by Zakaria Saaliti about double-standards in the current debate about whether or not women in the police force should be allowed to wear the hijab. For those who don't...
View ArticleWe can dance if we want to!
This explains why I never get to dance anymore. I guess there's an attitude here that you don't dance unless you're drunk. So pathetic and sad! Seeing as how I don't drink and I try to avoid drunk...
View ArticleAgile Logic
I've learned an important lesson the hard way this year: addressing a problem too generically is setting yourself up for failure. I don't consider myself a programmer, but given who my husband is, I've...
View ArticleAmazon Kerfuffle
Most people have heard about the issue with Amazon labeling books with GLBT themes as "adult", and thus no longer displaying them in search results or sales rankings. Last night when I did a search for...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to Opera!
Opera is 15 years old! I first started using the browser back in 1997 or so when I was working at OU doing support and web design for the financial departments there. I had gotten interested in web...
View ArticleFat in Norway vs. Fat in the US
Meowzer had an interesting post today about how fat Americans are vs. what people say about how fat Europeans are. My comment is still in moderation, but here is what I wrote: Hmmm….as an American...
View ArticleComment Hiatus
Since I haven't written anything for a long time and the only comments I get are spam, I'm going to disallow posting of pingbacks and comments for a while. I'll reinstate them as soon as I have time to...
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