Plumbing

This weekend I've moved a water faucet 2 meters and stopped another one (as part of a minor wash room project). I'd prepared meticuously and gotten all the spare parts needed. But I know how it is - so I started early saturday morning knowing that I would probably need to go to the shop to buy something extra. After dismantling most of the old stuff I needed to put in a 90 degree angle thingie. And sure enough - the one I bought didn't fit. I had bought a ½" and the one sitting there was made for a 18 mm pipe. Down to the shop I went - and it turns out there was no direct subsitute with what I bought. I ended up having to do all kinds of ugly go-betweens to make it fit. Now someone tell me why we don't use a standardized size of piping - I don't get it. And it sure ain't userfriendly!

Danish drivers

Having just spent 2 weeks in France on summer vacation (even got some cycling sneaked in), we got back to the ferry and had to wait in line (a long one) to get ticketed. To cut a long story short: our line broke down and we had to merge in to the line next to us. This line (as most of them) were of course full of Danes like us going home from summer vacation. No one would let us in. We even got yelled at. 2 weeks of driving in France and you're always let in (not to mention they always stop for pedestrians to cross the road), and then back to road rage Danes. Depressing.

Todays lesson: this is why you can't generalize usability findings across cultural differences!

SharePoint 2010

I've just had a sneak preview online of the new SharePoint 2010 (MOSS). If Microsoft keeps their promises, this is going to be the best ever! They've ported the ribbon (long live Silverlight or AJAX), and it just looks sweet. But then again demo's often do! :-)

Check it out: SharePoint 2010 Overview Sneak Preview