As frankps sees the world!

I bought a Dell Latitude E4200 for my new boss, as this laptop is light, handy and comes in the beautiful color of deep burgundy red! Not only Apple can make machines with a great design. No, no, seriously, the 12,1 inch ultraportable benefits from a fast solid-state hard drive (SSD) and it’s weight is about 1,19 KG. The build quality is impressive, with a magnesium-alloy chassis and no obvious areas of weakness. But before you continue, grab yourself a coffee cup … […] Continue reading →

I have not been blogging regularly for a while now, and I can see the results of that on the blog stats. I have now below 200 readers a day. So when slowly coming back to updating my blog, I have decided to follow more closely what my readers most often search for and actually read. To do be able to get more information about what my readers, I am changing from only using the WordPress plugin WordPress.com Stats to collect data from Google Analytics, to read the data directly on the Google […] Continue reading →

Yesterday I bought an Argon iNet 1 (Internet Radio device) for my mom and grandma. For my mom so that she can listen to Norwegian radio stations when down in Hungary, and for my grandmother so that she can listen to some Hungarian radio stations when here in Norway. It’s funny to think about the fact that radio stations have been on the internet for ages, but that we only have been listening to them through our computers. That can easily change with such a “killer device” […] Continue reading →

My hometown is Flekkefjord, a small sleepy town in the south of Norway. Recently a racoon was spoted up in the mountains nearby Flekkefjord. A beautiful animal, really, but it’s natural habitat is North-America. So what, you might ask? First of all, I don’t hunt and I am not trigger happy at all. But when I first read about the racoon on national television, my first thought was “German battles ‘Nazi’ racoons“, a newsstory over at ANANOVA a year or two […] Continue reading →