De-Icing With A Broom

Bad weather including snow is something that doesn't occur in southern parts of France very frequently. And seemingly, when it does people aren't all that prepared. Today I flew Air France AF7711 from Nice to Paris CDG. Last night it snowed slightly in Nice and the wings of most aircraft... [Read article]

Renting Cars

I am a frequent traveller, and travelling often means renting a car. In the age of internet booking a car is easy. Finding the cheapest fares on the other hand... a nightmare. Having several different frequent flyer cards I end up with a suite of discout codes (Avis AWDs and... [Read article]

The Wonders of GPRS

Some weeks ago I temporarily moved to Stavanger, on the west-coast of Norway. I am living in an apartment without any sort of network connection, not even a phone-line. As a very "online" person it does not feel very good to be totally disconnected from the time I go home... [Read article]

Roaming & SMTP

I am travelling quite a log, and when I travel I often bring my laptop with me. Getting it online is seldom a problem, there is always a network, either someone's LAN, a public WiFi-node or some sort of dial-up. In past times this was in itself a problem, having... [Read article]

The Upside of EuroBonus

Some days are better than others. Today I went to check my SAS EuroBonus account, and was surprised to find that I had gotten 6000 extra basic points as some International Travel Bonus thingy... I have not even heard about it... I guess it is some award they give me... [Read article]

New Adventures in WiFi

When I bought my Dell Latitude 510c some 6 months ago I got it fitted with a IEEE 802.11b WiFi LAN adapter. Neat thing, totally integrated, no antennas or anything. Now having a WiFi adapter one would typically want to use it. My university has done quite an OK job... [Read article]

Airfares, classes, tickets and such - part II

Some weeks ago in Airfares, classes, tickets and such I criticised SAS and the other big airlines from being extremely bad at things like customer service and especially the intricacies of their ticket and class system. Well, being big mouthed I guess that I shall also write a small note... [Read article]

Airfares, classes, tickets and such

It is a well known fact that the world's airlines, and especially the good(??) old big ones, are not doing to well these days. It is said that they have too much overhead, too many people doing too much stuff that really is just... overhead. As in any capitalistic society... [Read article]