The media has covered the recent G8 meeting in France, but at least here in Sweden there’s been little mention of the e-G8 conference that preceded it, where Nicholas Sarkozy apparently discovered he couldn’t impose his vision of a controlled…
Month: May 2011
What happened to keeping down inflation?
Huge increase in Stockholm Transport monthly card prices, originally uploaded by radiowood2000. The Swedish press reported yesterday that the Stockholm County Council and Stockholm Transport plan to raise the price of the monthly subway and bus card by 100 kr…
Is Skandiabanken connected to the PlayStation Network?
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…
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