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National Day

Monday, June 6th, 2005

Today, the 6th Of June, is the National Day of Sweden, and for the first time its actually a holiday. As we’ve been independent since 1523 it’s not cerebrated with the same intensify as that of younger nations. Such as Norway or the US.
Guess that’s not necessarily a bad thing, shows that we’ve found […]

Upgrade Complete

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

There we go. The upgrade to wordpress 1.5 went fairly smooth. I must say that I like the new template system even though the change meant that I had to re-implement my design. It’s a lot more convenient than the old one and it should make future upgrades easier.
There might be a few rough edges […]

Upgrading

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

I’m currently upgrading wordpress to the latest version, so things might not work as expected and/or look a bit weird for a while.
Please be patient, everything should be back up in a little while…

Winter Solstice

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

At 13:31 CET (12:31 UTC) today the Earths tilt caused the Sun to reach the lowest point above the horizon, on the norther hemisphere, in the year-long cycle (actually the year defining cycle). In other words, today is the shortest day of the year.
In Stockholm we’ll have less than six hours of daylight today, which […]