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When booking a flight…

I used to book flights to Germany via agencies like Momondo or Seat24, and they certainly used to offer me a good deal. However, today I noticed that both agencies wanted to charge over SEK 500:- (about €50.-) extra for a single piece of check-in luggage on an Air-Berlin flight from Stockholm to Berlin.

A quick check with the Air-Berlin homepage showed me that I not only would get the same flight for a slightly cheaper price, but that it also included one piece of check-in luggage – as it used to be in the past. Guess how I booked my flight… (more…)

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The briefcase now with increased breadboard area.

A portable electronics bench

A couple of years ago I mounted an Atmel STK500, a couple of breadboards and a power supply in a briefcase. This allowed me to bring test circuits to my lectures and demonstrate them in the class room.

The briefcase with the STK500 still mounted.
The briefcase with the STK500 still mounted.

Since I now have abandoned the STK500 in favor of just a USB programmer for AVR microcontrollers, I decided to rip out the STK500 and instead mount even more breadboard tiles inside the briefcase. This is how it looks now:

The briefcase now with increased breadboard area.
The briefcase now with increased breadboard area.
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Read more about the article A bicycle trip: all municipalities in Uppsala county – on a day
Uppsala county and its eight municipalities (map borrowed from the cache description).

A bicycle trip: all municipalities in Uppsala county – on a day

There is a geocaching challenge in Uppsala: to visit all 8 municipalities in the county of Uppsala within 24 hours. When I first saw this challenge, I wondered if it…

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