Miss Kolka

The internet is just wonderful. Planning ahead has become a state of the art with the help of technology. You can google everything (how happy must the creators of Google be: "googleling" has become a verb!), whether you have seen something and want to know where to buy it, get official information about people you don't know (yet), plan trips, get helpful ideas for birthday/christmas presents, find some cooking recipies or whatever, its there for you.

For example, I want to go out to dinner tonight, dont have time to go all around to find a nice restaurant so I google restaurants in my area.. no problem, in 3 clicks I have found what I am looking for.

Also I want to go to the cinema, so I Order my tickets online and pick them up at the machine to avoid the long queues.

I suddenly remember some great french tv program I haven't seen for years, Les inconnus, and thanks to Amazon.fr I buy all the seasons in one DVD box and it's delivered by ordinary mail 3 days later.

We want to move some of our stuff to Copenhagen in a month... we look up some transport companies on the internet and after a few mails and phonecalls, we get an interesting deal from one of them - and our things will be taken care of from door to door. Perfect.

On a walk in le Marais we saw an interesting babychair. After photographing the item with my mobile phone, I looked up the label on the internet - and like any good website they indicate where you can buy their products in any part of the world so when we've moved into our new appartment in CPH we can just go to one of the indicated stores and check it out.

The technology is good but in some cases not perfect enough. You would have thought a blog with uploaded mobile pictures of food would have been a good idea. That is until you see the result. Good food does not necessarily mean good pictures. Clotilde might have been on to something on her moblog. She goes to as many restaurants as she can in Paris and photographs the food, then uploads them instantly to the blog. Unfortunately the outcome is quite gross. So yes the internet is great but also full of crap.

Exhibit A: Probably tasty food

Exhibit B: Proper use of Food photos -> Coffee art