Hope you have at least as much fun as Rudolph! 🙂
Merry Christmas!
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Growing Tomatoes
This year was a tomato year. Out of 20 seeds I got 17 (!) plants. I started sowing them on the 6th of February, only 3 days later, 2 plants were showing their heads… And it continued in this pace, until all 17 were out within less than 3 weeks. They were first occupying the window board, and then later, when having been replanted an entire room, which we then called our little greenhouse. We had to close the door, because otherwise the smell of soil would have floated through the entire flat.
9 plants moved to a good home and made friends and family happy, 8 of them stayed on our balcony. Our plants had a hard time, they almost died of drought in June while we were away for week… Amazing that we still got a really decent amount of fruit!
Anyway, this is their story in pictures. By now they are probably compost. Tomatoes R.I.P.
Christmas Market Berlin Charlottenburg
Last weekend I went to visit my best friend who now lives in Berlin. On Saturday we went to the Christmas Market at Berlin Charlottenburg. A proper Christmas Market with lots of stalls of local handicraft, something that I didn’t enjoy for quite some years! Proper Glühwein (mulled wine) and fresh waffles with hot cherries included 🙂 .
A special building site?
“Porr” means “porn” in Swedish, and “Baustelle” is German for “building site”… Now you probably get why I had to take this pic.
Mark my words!
Swedish Planes for Suisse Airforce – and what it might mean ;)
Thanks @martinkallstrom for sharing this one, and thanks Burki from Suisse 24heures for coming up with this gorgeous comment on Switzerland buying Swedish Gripen-planes.
An old envelope can protect your life
At least it protects all your digital life carried by your favourite notebook.
I admittedly was a bit skeptic about the quality when I found this laptop sleeve on Coolstuff.se. But since I had already been looking for quite some time for a nice cover that doesn’t look boring, and since I didn’t find any that I liked, I gave it a try. The price seemed very much OK as well. And I didn’t get disappointed! This laptop sleeve really looks like an old envelope! And it is really sturdy, with a nice red, strong padding inside as well. It might take a bit more space in your rucksack, but to me, that’s worth it. You can even customise the sleeve further by writing on it, putting on stickers etc..
For my German readers, you can get this one as well at Yomoy.de , the German platform of Coolstuff.se.
Transport for the Dead?
One of these trucks we saw during the weekend:
Now, for an English-speaking person this is not that funny – but trust me, it is for a German, and especially for a German that knows Swedish…
Cos for us, this is clearly a company that transports dead people (“Toten” = German for the dead ones) and carcasses (what “AS” means in Swedish). And that even as far as to Portugal, when you check out their website. Impressive.
And it’s a Norwegian company, in case you wondered.
I like coffee and I love blogging
A great initiative from Flattr, the Pay A Blogger Day on 29th of November! (Tomorrow!)
This is what blogging would have earned me until now: 
Not really anything, but this isn’t why I blog. I just think it is fun to keep an online-diary, and that it is an easy way to share thoughts as well as cool stuff that one encounters, either online or in real life.
Also, when you look at the range of web content, I think that it is important to find as many views on a subject as possible. No matter whether a journalist has written his take on things, or bloggers theirs. Only with lots of different opinions, uncensored by anyone, we will be able to get the full picture of a story. By the way, an insight about how journalists function, you can read here. Might be useful to know next time you want to pitch a story.
Anyway, even if blogging hasn’t earned me even as much as a cup of coffee yet, I will continue. You are very welcome to take a cup of coffee with me some time!And no worries, I can pay for myself or maybe even invite you 😉
P.S.: I am particularly proud of my company Twingly who supports the “Pay a blogger Day”! Read their interview with Andrus Purde from Flattr!
Recycle!
Isn’t this a cool idea for recycling old tyre-tubes? I might save up a bit and get one of these…
Don’t worry, turkey never tastes good!
Thanks to @Bougie for posting this video on Twitter! It tells us what loads of people ever having tried to make a turkey must have thought loads of times, but never dared to admit, speak out loud etc. However, Aunt Mary doesn’t hesitate to share it with us …
Have fun watching! And cooking of course. 🙂
Following this video, I found another more serious one with Mary. Food Runners! A great initiative in San Francisco. To my mind such a service should be standard in every big (or even smaller) city in our Western world where we throw food away all too easily and without thinking.
Now Christmas time started in Linköping
The tree got lights now!
Great quality Timberland winter boots for sale!
Unfortunately, though, they don’t really fit my feet, and therefore I’d like to sell them.
The Timberland Chocorua Trail Hiker (their official name) are equipped with
– Goretex
– Sturdy rubber soles
– removable inner soles
More information and the current prices you get here on Brandos.se or on Brandos.no.
I have a pair to sell in size 38 – Price: 480 Swedish Kronor, plus shipment.
The shoes are worn twice and therefore really like new.
There is another pair of Timberland ladies boots to sell, size 39 and worn once. Price: 390 SEK, plus shipment
These are no Goretex-shoes, but it says “Waterproof” on the side. They also have a high rubber rim from the rubber sole that seals the area where the outer sole and the leather meet. The inner soles are removable.
Please leave a comment if you are interested in any of these.
Both pairs are located in Norrköping, Sweden. Shipping to wherever you want, payment with PayPal.
It’s not Christmas yet, but…
… since time is just running, I decided to do part of the fun today.
Proudly presenting the outcome:
And what were you lot up to today?
Preparing for SIME next week!
On Tuesday and Wednesday next week SIME in Stockholm will take place! SIME is one of the leading Nordic conferences for digital and online media. And thanks to the Martin Recke and his team at NEXT, I will not only be able to visit the conference, but I will also have the honour to keep you updated about the event on the NEXT-Blog!
Anybody interested in SIME is welcome to read my updates, but there is also the official SIME-blog, which will probably give you some more interesting stories.
Like every year, there is also a SIME Liveboard (by Twingly) where you can follow all tweets in realtime:
Wha'ever! 