Two MTI students made a website where people can register the delays they incurred when traveling on the Belgian railroads. For now the website resides on the ELIS servers, and can be reached at http://trappist.elis.ugent.be/~kmillet/. The idea is that the commuters drive the content which should result in an accurate image of the actual delays, rather than the statistics the NMBS gives, as they tend to drop delays smaller than five minutes and prefer to give a more optimistic picture in general. So if you are a commuter, and you use the railroad in Belgium, register and start logging your delays. Spread the word.
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NMBS delays
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Kinepolis and the art of picking a date twice
Saturday, July 14th, 2007The Kinepolis website officially sucks. And I’m not just referring to the crappy interface. I admit, I was inattentive. I mistakingly ordered tickets for the Friday Harry Potter show at 17:30 instead of the Sunday one. How could this happen? I’m quite careful when ordering stuff online, because once the button is pushed, you’re hanging.
The Kinepolis website specifically states that to buy tickets, one should click the hour of the show one wishes to attend. So, check the day (i.e., Sunday), uncheck the other days, to make sure I’m not picking the wrong day, and click on ’17:30′. Popping up is a nice new window that once again gives you the hours of the various movies playing … the day you click, not the day of the show you clicked on! To the right, it now appears (hindsight is 20/20), there are the days for which you can select a show, starting with today. So, my mistake was to fail to notice this and just click ’17:30′ once again. But what you should click first is … the day on which you wish to go to the movies. What idiot thought up this scheme? And what idiot approved it? Come on!
Now, this movie better had be very, very good. I expect no less than the same thrill the first Harry Potter movie gave me (I had not yet read the books back then).
Besides that, the site is half fubar in Safari (2.0.4).