Today was pretty awful. I spent basically the entire day dealing with the Swedish medical system. They were mostly nice, but it was incredibly draining trying to navigate an unfamiliar system when I’m sick. Also, it was expensive because I’m not Swedish. First, I went to the main hospital because that seemed like the easiest […]
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Cyber-homeless
January 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Sweden, Travel
Due to the arrival of visiting relatives, I had to move out of the place I’ve been staying for the last week or so. I was planning on staying at the local hostel, but neglected to make a reservation. I sort of figured, “Who the heck goes to Malmö in January?” and assumed getting a […]
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Must…write…post…
January 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Denmark, Shameless link-bait, Technology, Travel
So I’ve done a few things that merit longer, better posts, but I haven’t really written those “good” posts yet. Oh, my kingdom for a counterfactual computer (where the mere possibility of my writing such posts would mean that they were already written). In the absence of reality-bending quantum effects, I’m going to slap together […]
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The DDR, Surveilance, and Informational Self-Determination
February 3rd, 2009 · 6 Comments · Free software, Germany, Photos, Travel
On Saturday, I went to see the DDR Museum in Berlin (a terrible example of an historical abbreviation striking mental miscues). I had originally been planning on seeing the Deutsches Technikmuseum instead, but it occurred to me that I’ve seen a couple other technical museums on this trip (most notably in Zagreb). While the one […]
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Fifteen hour bus ride = travel fail
February 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Austria, Travel
I’m in Vienna right now. I had a lot of ideas for decent, interesting blog posts I was going to write. I still want to write about Christiania, the automated train system in Copenhagen and some stuff for Berlin. But yeah, I just spent 15 hours on a bus. It wasn’t Greyhound-level terrible. (Note to […]
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