För det första tycker jag att denna mail-historia har blivit alldeles för uppblåst. Mailen är naturligtvis patetiska, men försöken att utnyttja det så maximalt börjar bli det också.
Men den viktigare poängen: Sluta tycka synd om Reinfeldt! Sluta klappa honom på huvudet! Ju mer av det jag läser, ju mer får man ju intrycket av att han är en wimp som inte kan försvara sig själv.
I went on another ski tour yesterday. The snow was thawing, but luckily I learned a lot about ski wax the other day!
Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet report on “the first ‘lowest-bid-auction’ in the internet has been launched in Sweden”. The idea with Bidplayer seems to be that the person who places the lowest singular offer on a product, wins the right to buy the product at that price. The auction ends when a set number of offers have been received.
To me, this seems very fishy. For example, they are offering a product where they state the price in a shop to be SEK 10000. Every placed offer (by mobile phone) costs SEK 15. A quick calculation shows us
Oh, and here’s another mind twister: what happens if I put in 1000 offers, two offers for each amount from SEK 1 to SEK 500? No-one wins, because there is no lowest unique offer — because there is no unique offer at all. Very fishy…
(Via Aftonbladet)
On wednesday, I bought skis (and a small set of necessary accessories). I did a little test run on thursday (where the same thing happened to me as to the norweigan olymics team–I used the wrong resin). But today was my first real cross-country tour. It’s been 20 years since I last did this (in the Harz hills in Germany); my experience with “vita blixten” in the Swedish army doesn’t really count.
We skied for a little more than 10 kilometres, from Frognerseteren to Sognsvann via Ullevålseter. I am positively exhausted. And I forgot my camera 
Update
Just a quick pointer to the web site of Skiforeningen where you can get lots of tips, including what resin and wax to use. They also have an RSS feed, updated daily, with information on the state of the many tracks outside Oslo.
Now that Bettina has posted about this, I thought I’d do the same — before and after the trip we’re going on in April.
Before:
After:
Create your own visited countries map.
Actually, there’s an error in the map: The little dot next to Madagascar should be red. That’s Réunion island…
Mark your calendars! May 19–21, 2006: three days of madness in Lund. I can’t even describe what Lundakarnevalen is. But if you’re in or anywhere near southern Sweden that May weekend, you’ve got to experience it.
Excited students queueing for a job at the carneval in Lund. Note that at the point of the picture, the queue is already approx. 500 metres long.
This is just great. A Hamburg court has just ruled that fading pop star Dieter Bohlen (of Modern Talking fame) may use the informal „Du‟ when addressing german police officers. Ordinary citizens would be fined up to €500 for such an offence.
(Via stern.de)
Over the weekend, I sent another e-mail to the unviersité de la Bourgogne, to inquire on the status of my request. Apparently, the persons who are pedagogically responsible for the two programmes whose degrees I aspire to are reviewing the documentation I sent them. No promises on when I’d be told more…
This is a question I’ve always had in ESIB too: can the word responsible be used as a noun in English? In French, it’s of course the «responsables pédagogiques», and it would be the „pädagogisch Verantwortlichen‟ in German. But it sounds all wrong in English to me.
Just the other day, we finally got our tickets! Yay!
We’ll be travelling for about 5 weeks, and we’re going to Argentina (to visit my sister Olga), South Africa (not quite sure what we’ll do there yet), Australia (Perth, to visit Lene’s brother) and finally a 2-day stopover in Hong Kong!
I’m really excited 