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They say everyone has a blog these days so why should not I have one. Not that I usually have anything important to tell the world, but could perhaps be useful when out travelling or if I just suddenly feels the urgent need to share something with the rest of the world. Click the orange RSS-thingy at the bottom of this (or any other) page to get updates whenever I make an attempt of writing something here.

Finally got scanner working

Friday 5th of November 2010 - Farsta, Sweden

I finally got my wireless scanner working! Not that I have been trying that hard before, but anyway. This means I can now put some old photos, from the days before the age of the digital camera, up here as well. Swell ey!?

Added latest Twitter tweets

Sunday 23rd of May 2010 - Farsta, Sweden

Found an excelent and easy to use javascript that I'm using to display my latest Twitter tweets at this webpage.

I'm not a big Twitter user right now, but have started to make some work related tweets lately, as well as to follow some people in my industry whom I've found making interesting entries every now and then.

Another trip to the other side

Saturday 30th of January 2010 - Nanjing, China

It's getting kind of late, especially considering today's adventures around the city of Nanjing, China, but I'm trying to stay awake for some more time - to be able to sleep later tomorrow. Yeah, Jet Lag is a biatch.

So, this is my eighth(?) time to China, but for the first time I'm not visiting Beijing but rather the Nanjing, the capital of the Jiangsu province, some two hours flight south of Beijing (which made the flight here kind of suck).

After a couple of days of work I finally had a day off (those are not usual when working in China) and got to do some sightseeing, and this cith which I really did not enjoy that much during my first days really showed itself from it's best side.

Walked around the small islands in the Xuanvo lake and then (after some confusion as to how to get there) around on the purple mountains visiting Ming Xiaoling's grave and some other beautiful sights before heading back downtown for some tru Asian-city-adventures.

Walking around in allays filled with food stalls and passing crazily-lit shopping malls and markets I could truly apprechiate this melting-pot of a city. Adding to the exoticness I barely saw a non-Chinese person all day... :)

The photo was taken walking back from work an evening, by a lake just next to my hotel. Oh, and if you ever go to Nanjing, you'd most definetaly NOT want to stay at Shuixiu Garden Hotel, it's crap. Stay downtown, that's where the action is!

Christmas Party and Skiing

Sunday 13th of December 2009 - Farsta, Sweden

After last night's Christmas Party I'm spending my day in front of the TV, watching Sweden's successfull Biathlong and Cross Country skiing teams fight for winner's stand positions.

Good start, the ladies Biathlon team finished third - some five seconds behind the winner - in the 4 x 6 km relay.

The picture shows the Orsa Grönklitt skiing stadium where I'll be skiing in some two weeks! :)

If... has to be the best insurance company every

Saturday 17th of October 2009 - Farsta, Sweden

The other day I was utterly shocked by a phone call from my insurance company If. And surprisingly enough I was schocked in a good way!

Unfortunately me and Anna had to make some re-arrangements during our Peru travels this summer, as we got sick. I later filed a claim towards If for the extra costs that was brought upon us because of that.

Apparently, If not only will pay us for those expenses, but also for the "suffering being sick on our holiday" brought us. That'll give us an extra €500!

So in the future, whenever I hear someone having a problem with their insurance company I'll recommend If. I also wrote this blog post. Is that good publicity or what?

And the lesson? Good customer relations for the win!!!

Now with a working rss?

Monday 21st of September 2009 - Farsta, Sweden

While home sick you might as well make yourself somewhat useful.. me, I tried adding a 'real' rss to this page, mening that whenever I make a blog entry the rss is automatically updated.

Wish me luck!

New page framework; blueprint

Saturday 19th of September 2009 - Farsta, Sweden

Being home sick for a few days I took the opportunity to play around a little bit with this page.

The page has now undergone some major changes, but most of them are "under the hood" where I've integrated the page with a little thing called blueprint, making it easier to make things look the way I want to.

Furthermore, over the weekend I'll be adding some more photos from my travelling.

/Andreas

New design and photo studies

Thursday 3rd of September 2009 - Farsta, Sweden

I've somewhat re-done the design of this page, to better fit the map with photos onto it.

Realized that it didn't look to good with the tiny-ass map that I used to have, but still didn't want to spend a week making up a new design - enters this one.

Not too happy with the "logo" thing, the photo attached to this blog entry is the original one.

The helpful elevator

Saturday 13th of June 2009 - Farsta, Sweden

Having just returned from another trip to Beijing I am as jetlagged as always, but hey there is also an upside to waking up at five in the morning - you have a lot of time doing things you feel like doing! :)

Me, I'm just spending my time contemplating over how nice it is to be back in cold old Sweden again, still there is always an upside to everything.

In Beijing we had the helpful elevator, helping us to figure out which day in the week it was since the floormat in the elevator kept on changing every night.

Every now and then the Chinese way of keeping on spelling most English words in the wrong way also added some humor to it all...

An evening of sports in Beijing

Saturday 6th of June 2009 - Beijing, China

Having spent the last two hours of reading the rules of Cricket, or as they're really called the "Laws of Cricket" I now at last think that I've got it all. A few months in Australia wasn't enough but two hours an Wikipedia really did the trick!

Seems the hard part now isn't really to keep track of the rules, but rather to keep track of all the weird phrases used.. and as long as one knows what a "Wicked" is it seems fine.

The rest of my time I've spent searching the internet, trying to figure out if any channels here in China is broadcasting the soccer game between Sweden and Denmark later tonight (2 am) Beijing time... and it actually seems that I got lucky, but I'm not sure so I'll make sure to keep my fingers crossed for the last two hours while waiting!

Cheers,
Andreas

Two down, one to go

Sunday 24th of May 2009 - Ågesta, Sweden

Today I played the first two of my needed three "sponsor rounds" on a golf course in order to get an "official handicap" and be able to play at whichever golf course I would like to in Sweden (or, I pressume, abroad).

A part of the qualifications is to get at least 18 points over 9 holes and my first attempt was unssuccessfull, ending with 16 points - which was still rather good I thought. The second attempt, however, was even better and I ended up scoring 23 points. I also managed to go "on par" on three of the holes!

So give me one more weekend and I'll have my official handicap ready to go!

Where's the sun

Saturday 23rd of May 2009 - Farsta, Sweden

Just need an initial post to this blog thing to see if it works.. you know I made it myself so there's good odds that it won't. And since I'm a Swede, why not write a little bit something about the weather!

Finally we're getting everything set up as we want to on our balcony. After weeks of looking futniture, floowing and flowers (howcome all the things you need to your balcony starts with an F?) we've finally got it all settled... and what happens, the sun dissappears and it starts to rain.

Still hoping for June to be a better month in terms of the weather!

/Andreas