Escape from boredom

Stumbled over an old article in Dagens Næringsliv from back in 1996, stating that Internet is a flop. Funny reading, find it at http://www.plingeling.no/?p=42 (In Norwegian)

Can you guess what this is? Answer below the picture

Most people would say a remote control for the Get decoder “Get Box“. But that is close, but no sigar. Because it used to be a remote control, but now after my soon to be 1 year old son Anders has played with it, it has turned into something made out of plastic, with room for two AAA-batteries and with buttons in various colours. It is completely dead, and we now get pretty much exercise when we want to switch channels. Not much use of it now either, it weigh not enough to be used as a bookend, I’m all out of ideas.

I want an operating system like the Cloud http://www.thinkgos.com/cloud/ Imagine being able to press the power button of your computer and in just a few seconds you are online with your browser. For all other tasks you will still have other OS like Windows and your Linux distro, but for just browsing I would prefer not having to wait for at least 5 minutes before everything is up and running. Actually, my Lenovo T60 with all my installed services needs more than that.

“Satnav takes BMW driver to brink of 100ft drop”

He claims that he did just follow the directions given by his GPS. I like the comment “It’s all well and good trusting your satnav but how about trusting your eyes?”

He should have read “Ten tips for sat nav safety”

Remember from one of the episodes of “Nordkalotten 365” with Lars Monsen, he was together with a sámi who said “I once bought a GPS, but I sold it again, since I already knew where I was…”