I am not with them in the car (thank god because it is too crowded as it is) but I feel very much involved in what they are doing and the cultural, intellectual and experiential implications/possibilities/aspects of the project. Also I have come to realize that you need at least one blogger who is not [...]
Large log trucks carried above clouds of snow as they career through the darkness. We have just passed a truck we have been stuck behind for 30 minutes. I am excused from driving as I have not yet managed to obtain a drivers license here in Sweden. It is, in compared to Australia, a complicated [...]
Just got off the phone with the friendly-sounding Sandstrom family. They have been very helpful and picked up an extra bed for Jim so he can stay with us tonight. Other than that we are moose-watching. Stephanie because she really wants to see one, and I because I really don’t want to…At least not while [...]
After a short disruption (we forgot the video camera) we are on the road again. GPS co ordinates should follow.
The geographical position of the blog team can be followed here. It is still very primitive (and mixed English-Swedish) but we hope to get the map to work soon. You can also hear sound recordings. Update: Map works now. Team has detoured back to Ume
It is happening. After a long day of sorting things out, packing, finishing virtual worlds and doing seminar the team has now left Ume
I really shouldn’t complain about getting the stuff into the car – I should be happy that we have a car at all! The people at the car rental had double booked “our” car, so I’ve been all over town to find another one… (The rental people were helpful and drove me…). But now we [...]
Things are going quite well. The team is getting ready for departure. A few problems have merged today – no car, 37 non-real people in the chat space, pictures from camera to pda to blog end up somewhat too large, anonymous (i.e. no name at all) comments possible, problems with Swedish charachters in chat etc. [...]
We are learning things all the time. Fredrik just fixed a way to upload images from pda:s (via gprs and an ftp server in the lab). This makes it possible to blog pictures directly from the pda.
Now an extended version of the Swedish article in Kuriren is available on their website.
I’m starting to worry a bit about trying to fit technical equipment, warm clothes and shoes, a table and four foldable chairs, seven (?) didgeridoos, kytesurfing equipment and three people into the car that we have rented to drive up to Jokkmokk. On our way back, we’ll also have to squeeze in an Anton and [...]
Will be chilly, but they have had colder (-38C)
