Chiperoni ku Basel

Day: October 16, 2007

  • APN

    Today’s attempt to use the USB modem GlobeTrotter Connect with my MacBook failed. I had the right PIN and the right software. But couldn’t connect.
    The preferences revealed a dialog box with input fields for an APN, a username and a password. I checked the help. There was no explanation what APN stands for… and whether it’s required or not.
    And I was offline so i couldn’t search either.

    Aaargh.

    APN stands for Access Point Name.

    The user manual can be downloaded here.

    But I don’t know if that’s the missing puzzle piece I need to connect. Or if it’s optional.

  • The Nutella Alternatives Group at Flickr

    Yay, the Nutella Alternatives group is growing (world dominion imminent…).

    Recent additions include:

    pseudo Nutella

    Duo spread

    The question

    Why spend so many hours and bytes on Nutella and derivatives?
    It’s a web differentiator! And when people wander thru the shopping aisles with their phone cams they need a purpose.

    The Flickr group lists all the details:
    http://www.flickr.com/groups/nutellaalternative/

    Childhood memories

    As regular readers of Chiperoni know, the author grew up under African skies. Nutella and all subsitutes thereof were unknown. A friendly soul somewhere in Germany sent a package containing a small bucket in brown plastic of Nutella-like bread spread.

    At school my Nutella sandwich was commented with a universal “Yuck“. South Africans, Brits, Zimbabweans, Indians, North Americans and Malawians didn’t even try it.

    More for us and some classmates from the Netherlands.

    I -in turn- never really acquired a taste for Marmite.