Blog from the Loft

Today’s Wall Street Journal ran an article talking about the dry air on airplanes. The air’s humidity can be as low as 10% according to WSJ. Technology is available to humify planes. The Swedish company CTT makes humidifiers for planes. Big commercial airlines are just not installing them. They should !

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New stuff came out for the iPod. I am always confused by the software version. The windows updater 1.3 was highlighted on the Apple site so I downloaded that. Then I found out I have updater 2.0.1 on my system, which is newer. So the installation won’t start. Seems like there are two different series [...]

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I was cleaning out my notes and found the following piece of observation. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the original source. If you are the author let me know!
In japan, product designers tend to listen more to consumers (”the customer is God”), and rarely allow their egos or individuality to interfere with customer needs.
One way to [...]

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Random surfing found this story — hotel lost someone’s bags, and the room, and…. Just go read it.
Side note — I actually recommend the metro Soho hotel in Toronto. Same parent. Different hotel. See this entry.

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I am sitting on an American Airline 777 on the way to Frankfurt. Looking at the movie list in business class. Nothing good to watch during dinner. Unusual. I flip through the channels anyway and noticed the movie Italian Job. I always wanted to see it. That was not on the list of movies in [...]

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