Skandiabanken offline, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Has the hack attack on Sony reached into the world of Swedish Internet banking? Probably not, but it is weird that in the midst of the outage at Sony my Internet bank is suddenly…
Author: George Wood
I was born in California, but have lived in Sweden since 1975, working at Radio Sweden. I spent many years writing and presenting our program for shortwave listeners, “Sweden Calling DXers”. With the gradual phase-out of shortwave in favor of the Internet, I’ve since moved on to being our webmaster. My big claim to web fame has been that I was the first person in Sweden to post a radio program on the Internet, in 1994…the first person in Europe to post a radio program in English.
Don’t the would be pundits watch “The West Wing”?
This picture has prompted many comments, at least here in Sweden. In the Swedish version of “Thought for the Day”, the radio program with religious commentary, one person denounced President Obama and Hillary Clinton for watching the killing of Osama…
Despite the weather they turned on the Karlaplan fountain
Karlaplan, Stockholm. May 3 on the calendar, must be Spring (no matter what the weather is). It was warmer two weeks ago.
Snow on May 3
Lidingö, Sweden, May 3, 2011
Back in Strasbourg
Strasbourg Cathedral, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. Back in Strasbourg to celebrate Easter. We’ll be moving back for eight months in late August. Hopefully the blog will also relaunch then, with comments on life in France.
First barbecue of 2011
Lidingö, Sweden, April 17, 2011
Ice remains on Lake Kottlasjön
Ice remains on Lake Kottlasjön, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. April 9, there’s still a thin layer of ice on Kottlasjön.
One of my Favorite Days of the Year
Iced over Lake Kottlasjön
Download now or watch on posterous p110.mov (25869 KB) Lidingö, Sweden, December 12, 2010
Apple Killed My iPad
The ios 4.2.1 upload, runnlng on my work computer, totally froze my iPad. When I hooked it up to its primary PC at home, the only solution was a complete restore, erasing everything. So now I have to reinstall all…