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 comprehensive topic, the fact sheets are …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Downloaded and installed the long awaited Windows Mobile 6 update for HTC-branded TyTN phones today. At one point during the install procedure I was presented with this screen: This screen is obviously designed to be idiot-proof and reads in sequence these three sentences: This utility updates the ROM image on …
Above: the planet Earth, and with it; the Internet, as seen from the moon (“Earth-Rise” image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre web site) A question I have pondered on quite a bit since I first took an interest in the World Wide Web is where to put my energy and …
Back in May I posted my Google search results for people’s feelings towards Facebook following a heated discussion with an old friend. Just to test out the use of Google as a poll tool I decided to repeat the search today – here are the results: 1 – 10 of …
Having spent the better part of the evening debating with my good friend Anders A Fitje on the topic of Facebook, I decided to round off the evening posting a small observation on my web page blog. I conducted two searches on the internet, one for ‘i love facebook’ and …
Back in 1999 my “mobile computing platform” consisted of a Palm Pilot with a grayscale screen and a larger-than-life Nokia mobile phone with an onboard modem. These were communicating via an infrared link. As I was about to go on holiday one summer I found that it was possible to …
The last few weeks FaceBook has spread like a wild fire througout Norway. The major newspapers have started to pick up on the trend and having read their many articles to the praise of FaceBook, I feel like reflecting a little. Back in 1999/2000 a social networking site called eCircles …
