http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog study in sweden 2004-2005 Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:20:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 For all of you wondering about the status of me and my blog: We are still alive… The last 2 months have been extremely eventful and beautiful; they were both final stroke and the beginning of a new period of life. It was time to say good-bye to many people, including ... http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog/index.php/2005/06/30/signs-of-life/ I can proudly present: Two more international students here in Umea who decided to overwhelm the web with information about staying abroad in northern Sweden. And here they are… Whats up in sweden? Marco launched a blog (yeah!) to answer this question. Primarily written in English, the extensive travelogues (are|will be) ... http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog/index.php/2005/05/09/two-more-internationals-online/ Norrlands Guld is a beer brewed by Spendrups. It’s very popular here in northern Sweden (“Norrland”) – especially with the hoi polloi and us international students. They offer – as many Swedish breweries – the “supermarket versions” with 2.8/3.5% alc. and the good old Systembolaget brew with 5.3%. This year, Norrlands ... http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog/index.php/2005/05/06/we-like-norrlands-guld/ There hasn’t been much activity on my blog during the last days. And this doesn’t mean that there is nothing to tell. In fact, a lot of interesting events took place and some new projects just started. I haven’t told you about the first home match of Umeå IK’s women soccer ... http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog/index.php/2005/05/04/time-management/ Just a short post with some links to photo pages and blogs of international students here in Umea… This is what I discovered during the last weeks: Marce’s Dagbladet (Marcello’s blog in Italian – Mica’s pics and much content, unfortunately I don’t understand a lot ) João’s Suécia Photo Blog (Brazilian action, ... http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog/index.php/2005/05/03/international-pix-poets/ Today it was time to do the last presentation for my Academic Presentations course. I was talking about blogs in general in my very first presentation and discussed system selection and article publishing with WordPress in the second one. This time, I used the chance to speak about blogs ... http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog/index.php/2005/04/28/final-presentation/ Today it was time to bottle the second session of my brew. Mindful readers may realize that it’s already 8 days “old”. This time, I used the maximum of the proposed fermentation period in order to minimize the sediments. We will see how it works out. I worked alone, took ... http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog/index.php/2005/04/26/bottling-again-bbb10/ Wow, it took 25 days after our return from the Easter trip to create the gallery! Altogether, we three “digital” photographers shot more than 666 pictures. An adequate selection had to be made, while obtaining the chronological order and adding comments. Lofoten Islands have definitely been the most impressive place ... http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog/index.php/2005/04/23/the-lofoten-islands-abisko-gallery/ Well, I don’t really know where to start this time… I have already mentioned HumLAB and Podcasting in my blog, but maybe it’s good to explain these terms in short: HumLAB is in fact a nicely equipped computer lab at Umea University (under the library, opposite to that hopelessly crowded ... http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog/index.php/2005/04/20/bicyclemark-and-the-secrets-of-podcasting/ Today I started another round in my little brewery to make use of the second half of the concentrate. There is actually not as much to report; I didn’t change the procedure from the last time: Heating the concentrate, adding sugar, mixing with boiling water, adding cold water, stirring the ... http://sverige.2meter3.de/blog/index.php/2005/04/19/the-second-round-bbb09/