Hacking Corner

I just got my second order from Bike24 (from Germany to Finland), and I’ve got to say it was smooth.

• 2009-03-31 Made the order
• 2009-04-03 Bike24 shipped the order (from Dresden, Germany)
• 2009-04-07 Delivery by DHL (in Finland)
• 2009-04-08 Confirmed everything was a perfect fit

Which totals to a week.

Only issue I’ve had so far when ordering from Bike24 is that the local delivery is done via DHL, which was not-so-good experience on the first time. They tried delivering the package when I was not at home (instead of calling me beforehand to ask when it’s okay to deliver – like our postal service Itella does). When I called them back, negotiating a time was, uh, not easy. They couldn’t say exact time that they can deliver (not even within an hour – if I recall right the span was three hours or something like that), and I didn’t manage to get a delivery after working hours, so I had to ask them to bring it to my workplace.

But, apart from that “no good delivery after working hours” issue with DHL, my experiences with Bike24 have been good.

rant cycling

Nokia Sports Tracker is a nifty service (and S60 application) that allows you to store your walking/running/cycling/etc trip data in a file, and then upload it to the service. This file will contain the GPS coordinates you were on during your trip, allowing generation of nice graphs of average speed at the different parts of the trip, a map of the trip and so on. The data can also be exported and then imported to Google Earth of Google Maps for example. You can also upload pictures you took on the trip, and you’ll be able to see what position on the map you took them at.

It all seems free (for now) and nice, but a closer look at the Terms of Service does reveal something unpleasant.

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Uncategorized cycling, legal, nokia, privacy

… are in the gallery: http://gallery.fealdia.org/v/cycling/2008/2008-05-31/

Not very interesting even to me, I admit… I prefer the real things

Uncategorized cycling, pictures