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Browsers compatibility

browsersIf your own application is not compatible with anything else than IE6 why should others be?

Yet, there’s some frustration trying to book a ticket from airfrance.fr with Firefox 2, get errors apparently unrelated to the browser, then try with IE6 and see it works.

Something is not working out there.

Adaptability

My cheap and nice morning flight to Paris was diverted to Bruxelles due too poor weather conditions over Paris. The Manneken Pis brought to my attention, once again, the importance of adaptability.

Common culture changes in waves and like many phenomena have the tendency to show a sinus rhythm, like a pendulum.

Adapt quickly to those changes in popular culture is crucial to survive. Long ago men used to pee standing up, that was considered a rough intolerable behavior by most women, a dirty toilet seat could have prevent you from getting into her bed; now, in the Paris Hilton era, pee sitting down is considered womanishly disgusting and a dirty seat a sign of your virility and ticket for her bed.

Always analyze the culture which surround you and adapt to it.

Don’t tell me I am not a positive guy

FrankfurtMy nice and cheap morning flight to Paris is canceled due to a French strike. Stuck in Milan? Of course not. Flight to Frankfurt (in the picture a view of outside Frankfurt main rail station), then a TGV to Paris.

Let’s list the positive things I learned from that experience:

  • when french airport workers strike italian flights to Paris are canceled, german ones does not,
  • when it’s sunny even the workaholic Frankfurt look nice,
  • if you post to your wordpress blog from your mobile phone you can’t edit the html,
  • 2nd calss TGV wagons doesn’t have wifi,
  • the french countryside is really cute.