Well, cultural differences and all… in Sweden, the 25th of December is a day when nothing happens. All the action is on the 24th.
It’s very early, Petra is asleep while I surf around on my Thinkpad 42p. It’s a great machine. The Chinese may own the brand these days. But way back when Justin Hall compared his Thinkpad to the fictitious Ono Sendai i said to myself: yes, that’s right! And they were always developed in Japan, anyway.
Testdriven.Net is a great tool for testdriven development. I started using it when it was known as NunitAddin and it’s even better now.
URL-forwarding can be very handy: for instance, typing www.jonasbeckman.com takes you to this site. Unfortunately, my domain registrar has put an annoying banner at the bottom of the page and wants money to remove it. Instead, I am moving to 000domains – the banner should be gone in a few days.
In the afternoon we drove around with no particular goal, playing slow, sad music as the rain slushed down over dark, almost abandoned southern suburbs. What we really wanted was a long walk but the weather was just too awful.
Petra told me about this girl from Thailand she knew, who came to marry a Swede a few years ago. The poor girl arrived on the 25th of december. Small northern town, -25 Celsius (-13 F), no sunlight whatsoever – and she had never seen snow before.
Thai girl: I thought there were 100 000 people here? Swede: Yes. Thai girl: But… but… where are they?
Tomorrow we leave town for a week at Masesgården, a Swedish health resort. Plenty of time for sauna up there. Petra will enjoy her new car when we drive up… and I will tease her about the wellknown evil of SUV:s. 