http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:36:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I haven't written anything for a long time and the only comments I get are spam, I'm going to disallow posting of pingbacks and comments for a while. I'll reinstate them as soon as I have time to convert to a different comment system. http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog/2010/01/16/comment-hiatus/ Meowzer had an interesting post today about how fat Americans are vs. what people say about how fat Europeans are. My comment is still in moderation, but here is what I wrote: Hmmm….as an American expat living in Norway, I can vouch for the fact that Americans are way fatter ... http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog/2009/09/14/fat-in-norway-vs-fat-in-the-us/ Opera is 15 years old! I first started using the browser back in 1997 or so when I was working at OU doing support and web design for the financial departments there. I had gotten interested in web design in 1994 or so and was completely self-taught, but ... http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog/2009/04/29/happy-birthday-to-opera/ Most people have heard about the issue with Amazon labeling books with GLBT themes as "adult", and thus no longer displaying them in search results or sales rankings. Last night when I did a search for "homosexuality", the only results I got were anti-gay propaganda; "A Parent's Guide to Preventing ... http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog/2009/04/14/amazon-kerfuffle/ I've learned an important lesson the hard way this year: addressing a problem too generically is setting yourself up for failure. I don't consider myself a programmer, but given who my husband is, I've been steeped in agile philosophies for nearly a decade, and most definitely consider myself a ... http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog/2009/04/05/agile-logic/ This explains why I never get to dance anymore. I guess there's an attitude here that you don't dance unless you're drunk. So pathetic and sad! Seeing as how I don't drink and I try to avoid drunk people like the plague, it's not surprising that I ... http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog/2009/03/27/we-can-dance-if-we-want-to/ Aftenposten had a good editorial by Zakaria Saaliti about double-standards in the current debate about whether or not women in the police force should be allowed to wear the hijab. For those who don't read Norwegian, the main points were: Those against allowing police to wear the hijab claim that ... http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog/2009/02/19/more-on-the-hijab-issue/ I submitted some pics of Ada to the lol Builder on the Cheezburger network. Some of the results were really clever---this one actually got chosen to appear on their site. I'll post more of the results here over time. http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog/2009/02/17/ada-is-famous/ Some Norwegian authors have signed a statement against allowing police to wear the hijab. Fucking idiots! This really makes me mad. Norway is hardly the most equal land in the world if it refuses to allow women to wear a headscarf on the job. And this is ... http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog/2009/02/12/if-they-insist-upon-wearing-the-headscarf-they-can-be-something-other-than-police/ Gulesider has a "skråfoto" option for its maps. I've used this several times to not just find out where I'm going, but to see a picture of a place so I know what I'm looking for. I particularly like this picture of the building we live in: You can ... http://www.brodwall.com/sarah/blog/2009/01/28/skrafoto/