Jennifer Streit contacted me a few months ago to tell me that she wanted to get an early start on planning our 10-year high school reunion next year. To help track people down, she asked if I could put together a website for our class, so that we could start collecting contact details and later [...]
I just got back from a week in Paris for a training course (I know, poor me), and it made me realize how much I like Oslo. After just a few hours in the city, I felt like it was too big, too spread out, and too hard to get around. I missed the green [...]
Continued from: Norway in Our Own Nutshell – Part 2 Having started our trip before 6 am, by the time we reached Bergen we were just plain exhausted! I hadn’t planned too far in advance, so the available hotel options were very limited, and I ended up happy to find a place for around €150. [...]
Continued from: Norway in Our Own Nutshell – Part 1 Myrdal to Flåm on the Famous Flåmsbana Because of the departure delay, I was a little worried about what would happen if we reached Myrdal late and missed our connection. I knew the Flåmsbana runs roughly once an hour, but missing it would mean hanging around [...]
To prepare for the next thing I’ll be working on, I’m trying to figure out how some similar parts of the Ocean/Petrel system work. This meant creating a new custom object to display inside our visualization framework, and by chance my newly created objects ended up looking like candy. Now, whenever I test the code [...]
One of the most popular tourism options for visiting Norway is the one-day “Norway in a Nutshell” tour. From Oslo, the trip includes the train to Bergen with a stop in the middle to ride the famous Flåmsbana train and take a short fjord cruise. The package is actually a good deal, but we wanted [...]
Living outside the US, and travelling as much as we do, it’s not uncommon for us to trip the fraud alerts on our US credit cards. I try to remember to call ahead and put a travel notice on our accounts, but sometimes I forget. We haven’t really had much of an issue lately, because [...]
About a month ago, in a fluke accident, I got hit in the ear by a door. It wasn’t that hard, but it caused some ringing in my ears and a pretty good bump on my head. Two days later, however, the ringing had started to die down, and there was nothing replacing it. I [...]
This morning’s work was interrupted for about 10 minutes when the power suddenly shut off. Since we had electrical problems all the time in Austin, this didn’t feel like anything new, but apparently the power went off in most of Oslo. As Aftenposten sensationalized, there was chaos downtown as traffic lights went out, ATMs shut [...]
It’s time for my first “Little Things” post from Norway! Today I tried to type something and couldn’t figure out why the computer’s auto-complete couldn’t figure out what I wanted. It turns out that I was trying to type something that starts with a Y by starting it with a J. Because that’s what J [...]