Three wonderful days at the #festival in #Arvika

It really got huge, much bigger than 2 years ago. But still worth every cent. Thank you, Arvika! Input overdrive, so you'll have to wait until were back from södra Fjället.



Already on our way up north. Until next post, some unsorted impressions attached.



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Strange ecological meanings and good friends.

If you wake up by melting away, this is a summer in scand with 25c at 7 o'clock. You remember last night when your neighbours started throwing wooden piles, for a Kubb match around midnight and directly afterwards a table pops out of nowhere. Funny teamup seemed to end near 6 o'clock in the morning.

Now let's take back those empty 4 cans of beer (light - thx to ryanair) and 2 bottles of water. There is something called Pant and you should get some money back. But this well-known camping lot in Gothenburg says, they don't take them back, just put the empty cans in a garbage can - that's a funny folk interpretation of environmental protection.

Scandinavias biggest telco managed after 3 years that visitors (at least me) are allowed to use the internet if they own a prepaid card. As ordinary tourist do not forget your swedish ID - but the times they are changing, may it be IPRED. So the service is much better: Telcos service point just frags completely the whole mobile configuration incl. SSL but shows a full functioning integrated browser. Opera, Twitter, Mail and Jabber do not work anymore.

During a wonderful sightseeing trip by boat, you have the time to reconfigure your old settings of SSL, Opera, Twitter, Mail and Jabber.

The end of a wonderful day misses the best: a good meal and to meet friends. So now it gets real interesting, as to become aware that Svensk Piratpartiet knows about ############# (the following has been censored by your personal spare-time management system)



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Day 1: Gothenburg still stands or vice versa.

At first: ryanair is not as evil as everyone says, at least they did not follow their regular rules and made me pay my debts: short-circuited they declared my 25kilo backpack with 7.5kilo!? Thank you very much - you saved me at least one good beer in scandinavia! (*ptsch-sip-sip*)

Flygbussarna on the other hand doubles the price using a neat trick: the map shows the busline from Göteborg City Airport (Säve) till Landvetter Airport. Tricky as you are to reach Korsvägen you pay 60:- (SEK) for the transfer. In the middle of the town the bus stops and you have to get off, climb and pay again 60:- for the other line towards the other airport.

No way, the old man thinks to conquer a public bus or cable ... but all efforts to use everything but coins on the ticket machine are useless as all bank machines fill your wallet with funny printed worthless paper. Its the north, your mind whispers, try a credit card. But where once upon a time seemed to be a slot now shimmers a shiny silver plate - you are able to buy a single beer but not a cable ticket with a CC. Just sit down, noone cares about, mumbles a nice old man on the cable, but his nonsober words smellable 20m against the wind had enough power to put me instantly into GOD-mode: a small tiny itzi-bitzi button on the ticket machine explains the SMS-Ticket! Still in GOD-mode I managed to even understand those swedish instructions and yet in GOD-mode I took out my swedish prepaid mobile (again got 1000 free SMS after refill) and paid my dues to the city of Göteborg.

But the salad with noodles and fresh shrimps for 50:- rocks sky-high!

Already a picture of actual swedish food design - tastes the food the same?



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Culture Clash - IT und Outdoor - Real Life?

Keine gute Überschrift mitten im Sommer. Aber es lesen ja eh' nur meine Freunde, oder so; daher bin ich einfach nur positiv gestimmt.

Man es drehen und wenden wie man möchte - 2009 ist europaweit beachtenswert in Bezug auf die Netzneutralität. Der Iran kämpft mit allen digitalen und realen Mitteln gegen und für irgendeine Form der Veränderung, Europa regt sich über Piraten auf - sowohl aus augebeuteten afrikanischen Gewässern als auch innereuropäischer politischer Aktivitäten; #MJ (d.h. Michael Jackson) verstirbt und das halbe Netz geht in die Knie ... die erste Welt lebt anders; soviel ist sicher.

Es sterben zigtausend Menschen Tag für Tag auf der Erde und die regulären (westlichen) Medien berichten lediglich nur aus den rasch verfügbaren Medien (Copy & Paste), die sie kopieren - Tag für Tag. Und sie verklären es auch noch als 'geschützt' für sich (daher kein Bezug). Das schmerzt.

Ich brauche das jetzt: ich gehe mal eben wieder für 4 Wochen ins Nirgendwo. Kein Netz, weder digital noch doppelt digital; einfach kein gar NICHTS. Stop. (oh, Moment) STOP! #zensursula: Fuchs, Büffel, Bären, Wölfe! Alles gefährlich und böse. Das kann nicht sein, das darf nicht sein. Da muß ein STOP-Schild her; da könnten Meschen zu Schaden kommen.

Was Politiker (bis auf eine Hand voll) offensichtlich bis dato nicht verstanden haben (wir wissen, sie haben es verstanden - aber es divergiert der Linie der Partei), so unterschiedlich Interessen sein mögen, man kann sich nicht nur formieren, sondern auch organisieren (ich mag, bevorzuge und liebe ja die Bezeichnung des shitstorm - #Lesepflicht). http://bit.ly/shitstorm - komplett gepostet, denn der Linkname alleine drückt alles Relevante aus, oder?

Ich wünsche allen einen schönen Sommer. Wir sehen uns im Herbst.

Ich bin dann mal wieder weg bei den wilden Tieren, die mir als Adminstrator nichts antun werden (so blind kann man sein).

P.S. Nur so nebenbei treffe ich mich dann, falls ich überleben werde, mit mehreren Mitgliedern der schwedischen Piratpartiet zusammen, die mir bestimmt noch den einen oder anderen Tip (STOP!) nahelegen werden.

P.P.S. Rage Against The Machine - Bullet In The Head - via last.fm

P.P.P.S. #piraten+

The games have been started - E.U. for beginners.

Many netizens just check the web for first results (incl. myself). Great Britain has its problems and the Netherlands too, but both were first for this years kick-off party.

Without any proposal: Go and Vote!

In a world of financial crisis (oh my gosh), the american NASDAQ is already watching us (and hell, yeah, also me as citizen of the European Union).

P.S. To all left-wingers: Do not forget the Tank Man - Go out and Vote! Today is a good day for remembrance for all kinds of extremism to remember - this deadly one you could forget about - it's 2009.