This week I finished uploading my photos from our Valentine’s Day weekend in Paris. The full album can be found here. We booked our trip to Paris back in December when RyanAir was having one of their crazy airfare sales, and the roundtrip tickets cost only 200 NOK (around $35) per person. Since we could [...]
In case you haven’t heard, Mattel unveiled Barbie’s latest career choices at the American International Toy Fair, a few weeks ago. They put it to a vote on the internet, so not surprisingly the popular choice (swayed by the computer-addicted masses) was “computer engineer.” The company also created a “news anchor” doll, which was the [...]
This weekend, we went with Tara and Tor to Tor’s family cabin in the mountains. Even though we’ve been in Norway for three years, we’ve never experienced a traditional cabin trip. Even more embarrassingly, we’ve never been cross country skiing. We drove up on Friday night, and our first cross-country experience was quite an adventure [...]
I really want to keep up my two posts per week resolution, but I don’t have any time this week. We got back from Paris on Monday (I was hoping to post about that), and today we have to leave early to go on a very Norwegian weekend cabin trip, so I’m just trying to [...]
At the moment we have only folded 451 Scrum Post-It paper cranes, but our pile is getting a bit unruly. I really need to go through and string them, but I haven’t found the time. However, in true Scrum fashion, the crane-folding task has been parked for the foreseeable future. Last week, our product owner [...]
I know that some people find it annoying that subscribing to my RSS feed in Google Reader only shows the summary of new posts, forcing you to click through to the website to read them. I just want to say that I have been working hard on trying to fix that. I really don’t have [...]
In case you live under a rock (or outside the US), last night was the Superbowl. That’s a big American football game that everyone watches, even if they’re not into sports. Normally I don’t really care about it, but this year the two teams playing were the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. Given [...]
There are some things about living here that I don’t really think about until someone else points them out. In this case, we were talking to Lucas’s family about apartments, and somehow we ended up discussing buildings that overlook one another. Our new apartment is definitely in one of those buildings. This is the view [...]
A year ago our software team became a pilot project for the Scrum software development process. Among the changes that came along with this was a giant board in our work area where we write down all of our tasks on Post-It notes and move them around as we complete them. Every two weeks, we [...]
I’m trying to spread out my myriad of travel posts to once a week, but I’ve been sitting on this article for a while now, so I feel like I really should post it. 10 Ways Your Cat Will Punish You for Traveling It’s clever, well-written, humorous, and even a little helpful, and anyone cat [...]