back in Seattle again for 2 weeks.
The nice, direct SAS flight from Copenhagen-Seattle was pleasant as ever. I sat next to a nice Swedish guy who works for a branch of the WHO correlating negative reactions to drug trials - interesting. But it is a ten-hour flight so you need to fill up the time. This flight used to have in-air internet service ('connexion by Boeing') which they cancelled for some reason late last year.
Looking for something to read, I fired up the New York Times Reader on my laptop. The Times Reader is a WPF-based app that provides a layout much like the printed NYT with some additional features such as search, bookmarking and more. It is so good that we've replaced our home subscription to the International Herald Tribune (the Danish Post was too flaky with delivery each day) to a paid NYT online subscription using the Reader.
During the flight I discovered yet-another-cool-feature in the Reader: There is a seven day cache of downloaded papers, with all the content! So I had the Sunday NYT plus the rest of the previous week to read on the plane. Outstanding!
The Reader was created by the guys at IdentityMine in Tacoma, and they've also created a reader for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Fantastic stuff!
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