Trackback has always bothered me as a solution. Why would I have to ping your site to tell you I’m linking to you, when search engines can easily tell you who is linking to your site? When I look at t…
We bought the Philips SC479 DECT baby monitor, and while the feature set is great (there are many we don’t use, but it has everything we need), it’s the physical features that kills its utility. Here’…
Check out this awesome interface at the toilet on the train in Switzerland. The flush button is nowhere near the toilet, it’s above the sink. And the button for the dryer is on the right, but the air …
Comments on this site have been fixed. I had a hunch it had to do with some of my stats, and now I found out what it was: I had installed MeasureMap wrong.
We were stranded for a night in Amsterdam, an were put up in a standard, basic airport hotel. The elevator had a pitch for the hotel restaurant, claiming it was basically a gourmet place. It wasn’t.
…As a courtesy to the next passenger, please wipe the sink after you’re done.
That’s roughly the text in airline bathrooms. But it’s always confused me: Is that really the primary concern? From some of …
Our server, which runs this site and Boxes and Arrows, got hacked last night while I was at the christmas lunch party at DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. It happened at 8 PM CEST, 11 AM PST, a…
I’m waiting for a delayed flight at Copenhagen Airport, and they have flight information on the front page of their web site, and they can send an SMS when there are updates to the information. At no …
