GIS training courses in ten minutes? A new series of fact sheets from MapIT.biz claims teach you GIS as well as various system and process modeling techniques in only ten minutes. Perhaps. While some more time might be required for thorough understanding of this very comprehensive topic, the fact sheets are quite informative and would …
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Kollegaene mine i Abu Dhabi
Ein liten amerikanar, ein stor nordmann og ein liten ukrainar… Eit lite stykke Norplan! Det har snart gått eitt år sidan eg la ut frå Sogndal for ein to-vekers tur til Abu Dhabi for å sjå om eg kunne bidra med noko på grunnkartleggingsprosjektet som Norplan arbeidde med der for Abu Dhabi Kommune. Eg har …
London in June
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 …
Inntrykk frå Abu Dhabi (etter to veker)
Moské med forgylt kuppel nær Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoums gate. Abu Dhabi er ein storby – og ein stor by. Eit kompakt fotgjengarsentrum manglar heilt og transporten er konsentrert rundt privatbiltrafikk. Det er butikkar over alt men den “seriøse” shoppinga er konsentrert til gigantiske kjøpesenter, “malls”, med innandørs gater, underhaldning og restaurantar. Del av …
Booze – Business – Berlin
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 …
Dublin & Wicklow: Avinet study trip 2007
Above: My colleagues in Asplan Viak Internet at the top of Great Sugarloaf Mountain, County Wicklow, Ireland during our annual study trip. The sixth in the line of Avinet study trips was successfully executed from the 24th to the 28th of August 2007 with Dublin as a base for our activities. In addition to our …
The slow death of the public pay-phone
One would think, with the massive uptake of mobile technologies, that the public pay-phone would already have been made extinct in 2007. Why isn’t that so? I believe that one of the major contributing factors is the prepaid phone card industry. This industry largely targets people who wants to call long distance and can’t or …