tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-114875322024-02-19T13:56:04.371+01:00ArchipelagoPer Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-36466138668036433352012-07-21T17:21:00.000+02:002012-07-21T17:49:24.866+02:00Team Rynkeby Day 8: The last day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiodUl3hVKuC4nfmZEID7-lJjerLdea9beARnWttEsSO0DpIx9rasPtEdMwmpKuWgcX1VUcZU6f2umYx6vWvRJqxnp2t5tT4Xb4xY28V6IjuAQDq7aON_EaaErvHGV2pkOVp6tN/s1600/day8.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiodUl3hVKuC4nfmZEID7-lJjerLdea9beARnWttEsSO0DpIx9rasPtEdMwmpKuWgcX1VUcZU6f2umYx6vWvRJqxnp2t5tT4Xb4xY28V6IjuAQDq7aON_EaaErvHGV2pkOVp6tN/s320/day8.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="p1">We were blessed with an extra 30 minutes this morning and didn't plan to leave until 8 am. Yay! Too bad I hardly could take advantage of those extra minutes. My body made sure I was wide awake around 6 am, telling me to "get on with with it!". </div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">The Mercure hotel breakfast buffet was in the typical French baguette-croissant-youghurt-milk-cheese-ham-butter-marmelade-juice-coffee-style, and I really missed eggs and bacon (proteins!) after noticing how a lot of my muscle mass everywhere else than in the legs has started to disappear. I really don't have an excess to get rid of and would very much like to keep whatever I have, thank you very much!</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">When we rolled our bikes out from the storage room, it seemed like we would have a great morning - partly cloudy, slightly below 20 degrees and not particularly windy. Perfect biking weather. I think a lot of us started to feel some mixed feelings about the day - on one hand, we were so close to have been cycling all the way to Paris and the Eiffel Tower, but on the other hand our very special adventure was coming to an end. At least that's what I felt.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">We took off knowing we only had a measly 80-kilometer ride ahead of us before hooking up with all the other 16 teams at Place Auguste Baron, and then ride the final 10 kilometers to the Eiffel Tower as one large (and above all, long) bunch of 800 cyclists.</div><div class="p2"><br />
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</div><div class="p1">After more eating, drinking and eating we finally gently, gently applied one large last dose of Assos (a GREAT antibacterial vaseline creme that decreases friction and hopefully keeps your most valuable parts at least somewhat recognizable). And took off again. Ouch. </div><div class="p2"><br />
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</div><div class="p1">The last kilometers to Place Auguste Baron went better than we thought, and we got there well ahead of time before the joint ride. We kind of started celebrating already there. A lot of songs were sung. Probably around four or five teams were there when we arrived, and Team Stockholm wasn't one of them. Some of us cheered something like: </div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">"Före Team Stockholm!</div><div class="p1">Vi åker före Team Stockholm!</div><div class="p1">Före Team Stoooooock-hoooolm!</div><div class="p1">Vi åker före Team Stoooooock-hoooolm!"</div><div class="p2"><br />
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</div><div class="p1">And I have to add a disclaimer here. Of course it isn't as if anyone of us in Team Täby feel any kind of rivalry with our smaller sibling from the southern parts of Stockholm. It just happens to be a fact that we purposely chose a longer (and probably more scenic) route than they did, and that we were faster than them to the Eiffel Tower. We even let them get a head start from Rostock when we split our routes. That's all.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">The ride to the Eiffel Tower was unbelievable. We were team five out of seventeen, but still there was no way we could see the front of our "peloton" even on the longest boulevards. That must've been one of the longest pelotons with the same bikes and clothes ever formed. 29 out of 30 bystanders looked happy, cheered or took photos. That last one out of 30 seemed to be stressed to get somewhere, and weren't particularly thrilled with coming to a halt and getting a sudden fifteen minute view of exhausted, deliriously happy Skandinaviens on yellow bikes. </div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">And before long, we saw it/him/her/hen: The Eiffel Tower. It was far from my first time, and like most other tourists to Paris I've been up there a few times. But never has this sight been greater, and never has the feeling of this monument's magnificence been more powerful than in those moments when we were coming closer and closer.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">The last few hundred meters were fantastic. Both loved ones, friends and family, tourists and perhaps even a few Parisians were standing packed together, cheering as if was the last meters of Tour de France. A few of us shed a tear or two after the finish line, and afterwards there was an hour or two of hugging, cheering, drinking bubbly and eating crackers (yes, this was an interesting sensation after biking for eight long days in a row AND skipping lunch).</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">A lot of photos were taken, and I think the ones where you were lifting your bike in front of the tower was the most popular motive. Visit your loved one's Facebook pages, and you'll probably see them as profile pictures or at least in the photo stream.</div><div class="p1"><br />
</div><div class="p1">After that: a fantastic mexican debrief dinner, and then a couple of hours of after-midnight dancing for some, and a bit more sleep for others. Since I have an early flight on Saturday morning I chose the "early" option and got back to the hotel at 1 am. Exhausted and very, very happy.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">I'll try to let this experience mature for a few days, and then sum up some thoughts and reflections here that could come in handy for future bike rides like this one.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">I'm just so very grateful for this opportunity, and want to give my warmest thanks to everyone involved. I know you have worked really, really hard to make this possible. Our captain, the whole service team with technical service, food and transportation, Alex and Robin, the paceline captains, our navigators, our sponsors, and every single one of the team members. Thank you.</div><div class="p2"><br />
</div><div class="p1">And finally: let us always remember all those children with cancer who are fighting to stay alive in Lund, in Sweden and all over the world. Their challenges are so much harder than the ones we have faced during this week. They are fighting for their own life when it has hardly just begun.</div>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-55963539515441057612012-07-21T02:01:00.000+02:002012-07-21T02:01:58.378+02:00Team Rynkeby Day 7: Smooth sailing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Every moment took a bit longer than we had planned, which was kind of stressful. Just before lunch we reached Huy and it's famous "Mur de Huy" which is one of the most well-known slopes in the biking world. Sadly for me, my right shoe clip (fixing the shoe to the pedal) had broken the day before, and the left one gave in just a couple of hours before the Mur. I didn't even give the slope a try without any clips, but a couple of handfuls of the team managed to ride all the way up the Mur without stopping.</div>
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The day ended really late, and we reached our weird hotel in Laforet, Belgium at perhaps 22:00 at night. The hotel was run by some kind of French version of The Addams Family. All of this can be a bit stressful when you know you HAVE to eat, shower, eat, participate in debrief/brief, eat, clean your clothes, drink Resorb, eat, go to the bathroom, eat, call home, eat, write something for this blog, eat and go to bed to get a few hours of sleep before you have to wake up at 06:00 and do the morning routine: eat, get dressed, eat, drink Resorb, eat, apply sunscreen, eat, pump the tires, eat, pack all clothes and stuff for the day, eat, carry down the luggage and get out to your bike. Did i mention the eating part?</div>
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Today, Thursday, turned out to be really good considering the challenging distance, steep hills for at least a third of the road, and the fact that most of us has felt pretty exhausted for quite some time now. We rode 207 kilometers in less than 10 hours including a few shorter breaks for some small stuff like munching bars and going to the "bathroom". I was almost stunned with surprise how we had been able to ride so fast as a team, and making so few mistakes. No accidents at all.</div>
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I've also been on the "draglag" of our peloton for the past three days. As you might suspect, this has nothing to do with drag shows, drag queens or anything like that. Instead it's a few people in the front of the peloton who takes turn up front to break the wind. I think this is called "paceline" in English, but I'm not sure.</div>
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For me, this has been a fantastic opportunity to learn more Finnish, since half of the draglag is Finnish. Memorable phrases include "Jaksaa, jaksaa!" (Work it, work it!) and "Hyvä Fiilis" (Feeling good). It has also been a great gift to realize that it is very much possible to go on exercising for days even though you have lactic acid basically dripping down your legs.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">See you tomorrow for the last day of our entourage, our ride into central Paris and the Eiffel Tower together with the other 16 teams. </span></div>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-87386857402727935742012-07-18T23:58:00.002+02:002012-07-19T00:02:23.606+02:00Team Rynkeby Day 6: It's getting late in La Fôret and dreams of IV drip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the latest arrival so far... I won't even try to write anything today. Gotta get some sleep, gotta get up in the morning. This was a hilly day. Will tell you more tomorrow, if we get to the hotel earlier.<br />
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All I will say is that I would appreciate an IV drip with water and sugar like those Tour de France guys sleep with.Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-70800521197548735122012-07-18T00:27:00.003+02:002012-07-23T22:44:30.975+02:00Team Rynkeby day 5: The rain that never came #2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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First of all. It is insanely late (by our standards). Our close to 230 kilometers long ride took a bit longer than anticipated, and we arrived at our hotel here in Aachen just past 9 pm. We were blessed with nice weather and not a drop rain. I'll be very brief.<br />
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The pizza saved us. Thank you so much, service team. You knew when we needed it the most. Of course the pizza slices were topped off with the Arla Keso cottage cheese that we get every day, for every break, since Arla is our sponsor, and Keso makes you strong. We really love Arla and Keso :)</div>
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We had our worst wipeouts so far with a total of eight people involved. Luckily no one was badly injured. Basically only scratches and bruises. We're doing our best to make sure that those were the last crashes for this years trip.</div>
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I am sharing room with the greatest guy in the team, Staffan. Great as in - you know - a great pal, but also great as in the tallest and the most muscular of us all. Today we got a room with one 140 cm wide bed. Smaller than a queen size bed. Yup.</div>
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Tomorrow we are looking forward to something around 180 kilometers, including the great <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mur_de_Huy">Mur de huy</a>. I really hope that we get to the hotel earlier than we did today.</div>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-78852553182708355032012-07-16T23:14:00.000+02:002012-07-16T23:14:34.638+02:00Team Rynkeby Day 4: The rainy day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This was THE rainy day so far, and since it took so long to reach Münster I'll focus on just getting up the photos and go to bed. You're mainly here to see those anyway, right?<br /><br /><div>
This was also the day when we learned that biking through a small city centre could take an extra hour, stopping for twenty or so red lights. We'll try to avoid that tomorrow and ride for somewhere close to 220 kilometers instead of the planned 195 (we managed a bit more than 180 kilometers today). In heavy rain, probably. You understand why I'm looking forward to getting some sleep, right?</div>
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Today's best break activity was the "head-shoulders-knee-and-toe-knee-and-toe" game that we played; Sweden vs. Finland. Pictured above. The Finnish version manages to switch "knees" to "buttocks", which make the song much more fun. I love Finnish music!</div>
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Other highlights of the day was Ilka's acrobatic wipeout and some more flat tires. Ilka is showing his warface just before his somersaults in another of the photos above. </div>
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Gotta go to bed. Sleep tight, and don't let the bed bugs bite! </div>
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PS. Sometimes it feels as we are peeing our way through Europe. I'm borrowing a pic from Marie that shows you what it looks like during our so-called "micro breaks" that are snuck in between our regular "coffee breaks" and "other short breaks". </div>
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PPS. Just seeing these photos you might think that our ride basically consists of an infinite number of coffee breaks. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is just kind of complicated and stupid to take that many photos from the ride with my unprotected iPhone in pouring rain. The Finns in Team Täby have their own <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TeamRynkebyFinland">Facebook page</a> with a lot more action photos and movies.</div>
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This morning was weird. It began with me biking around in Vaxholm carrying some kind of meeting protocol that I had to sign on each and every page. For no particular reason I stopped in front of a house and started the signing job using someone's mailbox as a small desk. A woman came out from the house and looked strangely at me. Since I really didn't know what to do, I slipped a few sheets into her mailbox.<br />
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Suddenly the alarm woke me up and saved me from this really embarrassing situation. A new day with 190 kilometers laid ahead of us, and I started my "usual" painkiller gel/sunscreen/rehydration tablet routine. Our great hotel had an as great breakfast, and before we knew it we were off.<br />
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We were prepared for a cloudy, pretty windy and somewhat rainy day. It turned out to be nothing more than an almost perfect balance of cloudy and sunny moments, and a really fantastic bike ride. I think that most of haven't had a nicer and more relaxed 190 kilometer trip. Apart from the fact that Colin managed to flatten his tires three times (!) in a few hours, and apart from a few minor accidents, this was a really, really good day.<br />
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For my part, I managed to temporarily lose the screw-bolt-thingy that goes in to the crank - I lost another one yesterday. I broke off from the team and managed to find it a few hundred meters back in the middle of the road.<br />
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Tomorrow we'll have close to 180 kilometers to go, see you then!Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-42889882630693847102012-07-14T21:20:00.000+02:002012-07-16T06:07:53.463+02:00Team Rynkeby Day 2: A sweet sauna in Ludwigslust<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.306322131305933" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our bikes were still parked safely down on the lowest transport deck, and after a few goodbyes all of the teams (Täby, Stockholm, Jönköping/Gränna and Malmö) parted planning meet again only outside Paris next Friday. (Of course we got to see the Stockholm Team a couple of times along the way also this morning. They always manage to start before us, choose a very interesting route, and somehow end up behind us in the end.)</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We had a nice start, with roughly 50 kilometers to go until our first break. The weather continued to be better than we had anticipated, and there were only some scattered showers together with a bit of headwind. During these first hours there were a few minor incidents, but nothing serious. The most amusing one were when we accidentally lost our captain, Robin and Alex. They were simply left behind, and no one seemed to know where. After the rest of us stopped for a 20-minute break they caught up with us again - but they didn’t seem to find any of this amusing at all.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The break - our first - was fabulous, and I really want to thank all of our service who are doing such a great job to keep us on the road. Even though I might not mention it in writing every day, I certainly still mean it :)</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Afterwards, we had a pretty non-dramatic next 50 kilometers up until lunch (served in the middle of Nowhere, Northern Germany), and then set off for our last 40 kilometers before we could call it a day. The headwind grew stronger, and those last tens of k:s were probably the toughest one of our trip so far. But - we made it to Ludwigslust and our really nice hotel (Erbprinz) before it got too late.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We were able to kick back with some sauna before dinner, then a good debrief making mental notes about things to remember (keep your tire pressure up, don’t frighten everyone by yelling “HOLE” as soon as you see a small crack in the road, eat lots and make sure to get as much sleep as possible).<br class="kix-line-break" /><br class="kix-line-break" />My GPS stopped at 142 kms today, and we’re supposed to go for 190 kms tomorrow. I’d better follow that advice and go get my beauty sleep.</span></b>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-88471356852401396612012-07-13T23:43:00.000+02:002012-07-13T23:52:19.693+02:00Team Rynkeby Day 1: All the way to Paris <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRov0JlyiuFsdZ9S9cbW6_47b8XWoiYSy0znu65npYOnqwfgo5czviM1WD7Prtfzs1NbzjpiCjG3-U5y8dlj0on9BXY4LgBmRjgDrJgPlYdysP7F6ctE7jFvG2XwcoJAr6g8pi/s1600/image-3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRov0JlyiuFsdZ9S9cbW6_47b8XWoiYSy0znu65npYOnqwfgo5czviM1WD7Prtfzs1NbzjpiCjG3-U5y8dlj0on9BXY4LgBmRjgDrJgPlYdysP7F6ctE7jFvG2XwcoJAr6g8pi/s320/image-3.jpeg" width="320" /></a><br />
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.306322131305933" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today, the four <a href="http://www.team-rynkeby.se/">Team Rynkeby Sweden</a> teams started our 8-day bike trip from Malmö to Paris. Together with the 13 danish teams, we are a total of 700 half-crazy, adventurous people who will be biking our way down through Europe.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I heard of Team Rynkeby for the first time around one and a half years ago. A dear friend of mine had decided to join, and he was asking around, trying to find kindred spirits who maybe would apply to come along with him. He and his whole family had been through a really tough time, where their son had fought and defeated a serious form of cancer. And the main purpose of Team Rynkeby is actually to raise money to <a href="http://barncancerfonden.se/">Barncancerfonden</a> (the Swedish fund for fighting childhood cancer) and its Danish equivalence.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I couldn’t join for 2011, but after I heard of Team Rynkeby’s fantastic trip to Paris last summer I was really excited, and decided to apply for 2012. And here I am, as member of Team Rynkeby Täby.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After too few hours of sleep, I was woken by double alarms around 04.24, just barely half an hour before I had to catch the bus to Stockholm. My bike already started its trip to Malmö last night in truck together with all the other bikes, so I managed to leave home without that much trouble since I made sure to pack everything using my checklists last night.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bus for Malmö with the Stockholm teams left from Arla’s head office around 06.00, and everyone in both teams was really happy despite the early hour. I managed to sleep all the way to Jönköping, and then a get a few hours of quality time with <a href="https://twitter.com/mosseby/status/218610147793186818">my new lover</a>.</span></b><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Malmö, Jägersro, we changed clothes, rearranged our luggage, and saddled up for the first short ride to the city of Lund and the Barn- och ungdomssjukhuset (a children’s hospital). Up until the visit, it had only been something on the agenda - a couple of speeches, and then off to Trelleborg. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead, it was so much more than I was prepared for. We were recieved by a big crowd with cheering and applause, and amongst the ones waiting were a lot of kids - cancer patients - with their parents. It is really intense to meet these children, and instead of focusing on the sadness and hardships that comes with cancer (since it nearly made me cry), I tried to focus on how Barncancerfonden are able to support projects that leads to better rates of curing and helping the kids and their families. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After that, we had a wonderful ride through the Skåne countryside to Svedala, where we probably broke some kind of world record in how many bikers you can fit into a McDonald’s restaurant. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And after that, a short ride down to Trelleborg and a longer wait to get on the ferry and to go get our assigned rooms. But now where here, and I’ll have to get some sleep before we get to Germany. </span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PS. Yes Petra, we’re going <a href="http://allthewaytoparis.com/">All the way to Paris</a> :)</span></b>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-8320319932060850032011-03-21T09:39:00.000+01:002011-03-21T09:39:45.311+01:00Film business... remake or makeover?Ever since I worked in the more digital parts of the music business, I have become increasingly astonished over how slow the film business evolves. I still have my Lovefilm (Amazon.com) subscription active, since it is the most reliable and convenient way of watching film in Sweden.<br />
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<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/18388998">The Economist</a> writes about the need for a remake.Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-23177428248416750022010-06-23T13:12:00.002+02:002010-06-23T13:46:53.705+02:00Handelsbanken: Maybe the worst online banking login solution ever<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibSmnEGdwRFOw8EzDYFrlrmX-rmzdmWcO1ImXMgjhyRXOYgRUoV8Fo4fC2syDuVoPFLTlHsxwYmJ9GZMf7pdcx-al1VeGWqQJ_lKiP4ZeGlL8ND9yLKDjY7bnziSeMXv2MsZjc/s1600/dongel.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibSmnEGdwRFOw8EzDYFrlrmX-rmzdmWcO1ImXMgjhyRXOYgRUoV8Fo4fC2syDuVoPFLTlHsxwYmJ9GZMf7pdcx-al1VeGWqQJ_lKiP4ZeGlL8ND9yLKDjY7bnziSeMXv2MsZjc/s320/dongel.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5485934184763791954" /></a>I am speechless.<div><br /></div><div>A couple of days ago, I got a large and heavy envelope in the mail. I opened it today.</div><div><br /></div><div>Inside, I found a USB card reader, a 2 meter long USB cable, and a card. This... is Handelsbanken's new login solution.</div><div><br /></div><div>The stuff weighs in at 102 grams - that's the equivalent of a normal mobile phone! What were they thinking? Up until today, I've been using their online banking service pretty much everywhere. At home, on the bus, in the office... pretty much everywhere. So now they think I'll add the equivalent of a third mobile phone to my bag just to have the opportunity to use their service? Forget it.</div><div><br /></div><div>Since I've been working with online banking, I've had the opportunity and tried most solutions on the Swedish market. Since 1995. And this must be the worst solution ever. In 2010.</div><div><br /></div><div>But that 2 m long USB cable is my favorite. What were they thinking? If you know that you have the most clumsy security system for online banking in the history of mankind, ever, you might want to think about ways to at least take away a bit of that burden? Instead, Handelsbanken now gives you the opportunity to carry your card reader with you between rooms, wherever you want to go in your house. While the reader is still plugged into your computer, that is. </div><div><br /></div><div>PS. I've called Handelsbanken and asked if there are alternatives for using their Internet banking service. There aren't any.</div>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-80440840026953373162010-06-15T13:57:00.003+02:002010-06-15T14:01:27.215+02:00On my wall<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXBp3IoCsUSyglcMavZ9GSmTmxUcKxWKjIn_IZFrp6z6WjWi73AFRMAqqVCshADKFoZ7taU5ERO_rm3lYAPrdOpZYZQSh1Wm6bvXVE2P8aFP1Iwzxd13ZJWhVeb2qYRwYPZfX/s1600/beatiger.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQXBp3IoCsUSyglcMavZ9GSmTmxUcKxWKjIn_IZFrp6z6WjWi73AFRMAqqVCshADKFoZ7taU5ERO_rm3lYAPrdOpZYZQSh1Wm6bvXVE2P8aFP1Iwzxd13ZJWhVeb2qYRwYPZfX/s320/beatiger.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482968559517432514" /></a>I have this ad on my wall in my office. I love it so much. The new dimension of meaning that it was given from last fall's media circus around Tiger is just... great.Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-42018253168431364382010-06-15T01:37:00.003+02:002010-06-15T01:49:25.689+02:00Another Stockholm MarathonI haven't had the time to write anything at all here for quite some time now. But one day...<div><br /></div><div>Anyway, one of the main training goals for this year was last weekend's Stockholm Marathon, and we were blessed with perfect weather this time. The knee gods were on my side this year too, and I managed to beat last year's time and score a new personal best with 3.48. </div><div><br /></div><div>I really miss having a running club here in Vaxholm. If I wouldn't be kind of occupied with working for our local society already, I would start one tomorrow.</div><div><br /></div>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-35166180017949194522010-04-29T16:43:00.003+02:002010-04-29T17:18:55.675+02:00iPad and Flash<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTyt8u-6-ucLO7uQJ7ukEY6gXXAg1yiq3BZPr3CfB7oz2zxM2gHTzSnmGLIxs_Vad9qmYJNpjWXgAx-SLcA9q62fJ0B_S8TXP_QvCkH51TEEC1hHs2fOBiXUFsSrDmq9rLnZY/s1600/ipadadam.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlTyt8u-6-ucLO7uQJ7ukEY6gXXAg1yiq3BZPr3CfB7oz2zxM2gHTzSnmGLIxs_Vad9qmYJNpjWXgAx-SLcA9q62fJ0B_S8TXP_QvCkH51TEEC1hHs2fOBiXUFsSrDmq9rLnZY/s320/ipadadam.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465578943999078114" /></a>I finally got my own iPad this week, and I must admit that I'm pretty happy with it. But not overwhelmed. There is one thing that really sucks, though: the lack of Adobe Flash support. In my "everyday life" - while following links from Google Reader and Twitter - I end up not being able to view content like 33% of the time just because the iPad doesn't support Flash. The same as with the iPhone, that is. But somehow I have a hard time accepting that on a device as physically large as the iPad.<div><br /></div><div>The result? Already today I was eating lunch with my MacBook Pro instead of using my brand new iPad.</div><div><br /></div><div>Proactively answering my then unasked question, Steve Jobs published <a href="http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/">"Thoughts on Flash"</a> today. And his reality distortion field is strong - I agree with Steve after reading it. Hopefully Apple's decision means that most video content on the web will work with the iPhone and iPad pretty soon (because the video feeds from most of the companies that Steve is mentioning are NOT working seamlessly from Safari in iPhone OS).</div><div><br /></div><div>But here's a thought: Meanwhile, couldn't I secretly get access to a beta version of Flash for the iPad? Please? I will accept the downside it will have on my battery life, and I won't tell anyone. I promise.</div>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-38478865348926464722009-09-08T16:04:00.003+02:002009-09-08T16:15:46.191+02:00Go Google books<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">There have been a <a href="http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/artikel_3483771.svd">few</a> <a href="http://www.svd.se/kulturnoje/nyheter/artikel_3483783.svd">discussions</a> in Swedish media over the past few days about <a href="http://books.google.com/">Google books</a>, where most of those discussions have focused on the risks with a "private monopoly" of books online. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">I am not scared at all. I think it is wonderful that a private company is spending huge amounts of money on making the world's literary heritage available and searchable online. A few years ago, things were significantly different. If you didn't know which specific book you were looking for, you could get help to search on a few keywords - at best - and then possibly get your hands on a book within a few days or weeks. With Google books, you can search on all the text, and have the digital version of the book in your hands a second later. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The Economist wrote <a href="http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14363287">two</a> <a href="http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14376406">pieces</a> on Google books last week that is good. And all the nay-sayers who would rather see that Google stopped the project have one huge problem to solve: what is the realistic alternative other than a privately owned solution, if you want to make most of the books in the world available in 179 countries? </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, serif;">And from this perspective, I'm very happy with the Swedish government who have chosen not to file a formal complaint in the same way that some of our neighbors have.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The Google books initiative, more than anything that I've seen to date, will be the start of a new era in consumption of older books and texts. Tomorrow's networked e-readers will match and outperform <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=AwNAu1b9VSgC&dq=enders+game&hl=sv&source=gbs_similarbooks_r&cad=2">Ender's</a> tablet computer. </span></div></span>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-73674000063813822742009-06-03T07:04:00.002+02:002009-06-03T07:35:03.212+02:00This year's Stockholm MarathonI had the pleasure of finishing this year's <a href="http://www.stockholmmarathon.se/">Stockholm Marathon</a> the other day. I was really happy about it, since <a href="http://per.mosseby.com/2008/05/tomorrows-stockholm-marathon.html">last year's run</a> ended in <a href="http://per.mosseby.com/2008/05/32-good-kilometers.html">disaster</a> thanks to my left knee. I've tried to run fewer kilometers this season, and done my best to come out a bit more regularly instead. I gotta admit I was really nervous about the knee all the way, but less kilometers in combination with a kind of "<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8182821717902511243">pose method</a>" light seems to have paid off. The knee is still OK a few days after the race...<br /><br />Up until last year, I didn't think much about either stretching or that it really mattered how you put in your kilometers during pre-season. Now I know better :)<br /><br />I hope anyone who are thinking about the Marathon signs up for next year in Stockholm. The registration typically closes already early in the fall.<br /><br />And if you know about a good race, let me know. I've signed up for the <a href="http://www.nycmarathon.org/">NYC Marathon</a> ballot, but I really don't expect to get lucky just yet. But if you participate in the ballot for four years in a row, you seem to be guaranteed a start the fourth year.Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-86929732708771552812009-05-16T11:07:00.003+02:002009-05-16T11:46:43.028+02:00Make money and save the world<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ifnfEsE78oIvk1HnB_0qjBvPL6SoNsm8kWTDajeEnUZwYE_LPPnz-54ok1C9N5PzvpjI-NDhazvWtmLNSYganALZ6h9nXiF-GerFjwmcDPeoVaHMlbqsE4KZTM5GaXVmVVDZ/s1600-h/tjanapengar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ifnfEsE78oIvk1HnB_0qjBvPL6SoNsm8kWTDajeEnUZwYE_LPPnz-54ok1C9N5PzvpjI-NDhazvWtmLNSYganALZ6h9nXiF-GerFjwmcDPeoVaHMlbqsE4KZTM5GaXVmVVDZ/s320/tjanapengar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336348774383885282" border="0" /></a>Proud as always of <a href="http://maja.brisvall.com/">my wife</a> who did great job in <a href="http://tv4play.se/aktualitet/nyhetsmorgon?videoId=1.998773&s%20elId=1.923808&currPage=1&renderingdepartment=2.34562">yesterday's morning news show </a>in TV4, talking about her new book, <a href="http://www.bokus.com/b/9789189388369.html">Tjäna pengar och rädda världen</a>. She argues that a portion of today's stimulus initiatives in Sweden should be invested in encouraging social entrepreneurship rather than trying to protect old industries.<br /><br />Needless to say, I would marry her once more if I could :)Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-11032071147328037862009-04-26T09:32:00.003+02:002009-04-26T09:48:29.440+02:00The cover and leader are equally scary<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBm6b_7XgkpaZqB837mRmZhHlc7HmHvABvizJn7n0jVXWGOe77zIaSM7Wn2U1_2eccRKyahYUcoV_qg56In7lwTBM3ohqgN1eOEhMJqs5IjthvJgIVp2wbz7cFI4xXV27pwUCW/s1600-h/economist_currentcoverrow_large.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 243px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBm6b_7XgkpaZqB837mRmZhHlc7HmHvABvizJn7n0jVXWGOe77zIaSM7Wn2U1_2eccRKyahYUcoV_qg56In7lwTBM3ohqgN1eOEhMJqs5IjthvJgIVp2wbz7cFI4xXV27pwUCW/s320/economist_currentcoverrow_large.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328899907361521666" border="0" /></a>I'm not exactly the type that runs around and worries about a coming Armageddon. And I actually don't think the financial crisis will trigger Armageddonish types of events on a significant scale (civil unrest, wars et c). But I do agree with the <a href="http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=13527685">leader in this week's Economist</a> that there is a significant risk that last weeks' signs of a turnaround is premature.<br /><br />And the obvious risk would be that all different types of stimuli together with an unfounded optimism can create a boost that ruins the world economy even more. There is a reason to why you need to rest when you're sick.<br /><br />And the cover is just brilliant. As scary as the inside.Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-23686035602241645792009-03-20T18:36:00.002+01:002009-03-20T18:42:25.691+01:00President Obama's Newruz message to Iran<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HY_utC-hrjI&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HY_utC-hrjI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2009/03/20/president-obama.html">Joi writes</a> about President Obama's Nowruz message:<br /><blockquote>US President Obama <a target="_blank" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/Nowruz/">posted a YouTube video on The White House site</a>. "This year, the President wanted to send a special message to the people and government of Iran on Nowruz, acknowledging the strain in our relations over the last few decades. 'But at this holiday we are reminded of the common humanity that binds us together,' he says." <p>The video has Persian subtitles.</p> <p>Very impressive. Although some might argue that it's not enough and others that it's too much, I really like the respectful tone and change from the tone of the previous administration.</p></blockquote>Word.<br /><blockquote></blockquote>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-76332484923762149892009-03-12T17:27:00.003+01:002009-03-12T18:12:57.182+01:00A proud dad - Oreo (not the cookie)Yesterday, the electronic procurement company Oreo (no, not the cookie!) was acquired by Eniro (OMXS: ENRO), the leading Nordic search directory company. You can read the <a href="http://www.cisionwire.se/eniro/eniro-forvarvar-oreo-ab-">Swedish press release</a>, or an English article on <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090311-707124.html">Wall Street Journal</a> [subscribers only].<br /><br />I worked as CEO for the company during 2005-2006, releasing the first public version of the service and signing the first customers and partners. Congrats to all my friends at Oreo, as well as the investors who have kept on believing and investing during these years!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: I am (or since yesterday: was) a small shareholder of Oreo.</span>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-69259619831475992242009-03-12T17:22:00.002+01:002009-03-12T17:27:56.120+01:00A proud dad - our baby girlOn Feb. 28, we were blessed with our third child: a wonderful baby girl. She is absolutely gorgeous and wonderful, of course :)Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-3355122764205301712009-01-28T02:56:00.002+01:002009-01-28T03:12:22.172+01:00Top BushismsSlate Magazine has published a hilarious list of the <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2208132/">Top 25 Bushisms of all time</a>. But since they published the list on Jan 12, 2009, they missed the last great Bushism uttered on that very day.<br /><br />George W. was talking about his mistake to declare "mission accomplished" a <span style="font-style: italic;">bit</span> too early. <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1871894,00.html">Time Magazine</a> gives it to us:<br /><br /><blockquote>"We were trying to say something differently, but nevertheless it conveyed a different message."</blockquote>Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-26066845994586557712008-12-10T12:59:00.004+01:002008-12-10T16:34:34.550+01:00Joi Ito loves to share<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg_GP2LPvH8SnxjsU3VpGuH733TVF62wy5LmREuWvmzHL0UvDgDEkOJqbJufWNXjmBhcl6lxvmGJqYZMqIby7uUEqcG32N9t-vXRUVEXajhnFkmCD7WzWx2RWgTL0rxw6F1aSY/s1600-h/joiito.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg_GP2LPvH8SnxjsU3VpGuH733TVF62wy5LmREuWvmzHL0UvDgDEkOJqbJufWNXjmBhcl6lxvmGJqYZMqIby7uUEqcG32N9t-vXRUVEXajhnFkmCD7WzWx2RWgTL0rxw6F1aSY/s320/joiito.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278184339947275666" border="0" /></a>It was great listening to <a href="http://joi.ito.com/">Joi Ito</a>, who had refined his <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a> presentation <a href="http://per.mosseby.com/2008/11/joi-ito-show.html">further since SIME</a>. For those of you who haven't looked around too much at the Internet for the past few years, Creative Commons is an NGO that provides licenses that gives copyright owners the possibility to easily share their works in the way they want. A very famous and recent example is the Barack Obama campaign who continuously <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/barackobamadotcom/">shared CC-licensed photographs on Flickr</a> during and after the campaign.<br /><br />Of course I share a lot of my own material using Creative Commons, and I'm also using it for both this and my other Swedish blog both for building and posting to the blog. Sharing digital content in a creative manner is becoming hugely important. I am becoming more and more concerned over the fact that quite a few legislators in Sweden seem to be out of sync with how technology is changing the world.Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-86686469981533817732008-12-10T12:38:00.003+01:002008-12-10T16:32:03.898+01:00Marissa Mayer on LeWeb08<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4m67lSNYrycHfeLIXjvUrQe_Hwn4gOQhTAZNelkxc_tf16dJ7M9pjnDF8YNTrAq-Qa2svouYsbjvNs2oAyojSbbkqnrK7eyPdZCrb3d5Lj9WM5lRxXzpLay-PMCbvcSlYPcz/s1600-h/marissa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4m67lSNYrycHfeLIXjvUrQe_Hwn4gOQhTAZNelkxc_tf16dJ7M9pjnDF8YNTrAq-Qa2svouYsbjvNs2oAyojSbbkqnrK7eyPdZCrb3d5Lj9WM5lRxXzpLay-PMCbvcSlYPcz/s320/marissa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278184485796110770" border="0" /></a>It is always interesting to listen to Marissa Mayer. She's employee no. 1 at <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>, and still deeply involved in both Google's core search interface as well as new products.<br /><br />When it comes to the future of Google's products, Marissa explains that there is a lot of interesting stuff in the long-term pipeline.<br /><br />"We're thinking: 'What if we made it easier to search from your phone? Or from your car? Using voice?' You can imagine a search interface where you can search on concepts rather than keywords, and doing that using your voice."<br /><br />It could take a while, though: "I think we'll see great advances in these areas over the next 5-10 years." Michael Arrington at <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/">Techcrunch</a> followed up and asked if Google isn't having some kind of super-cool, secret, advanced search interface that they are keeping to themselves and from the rest of the world? Marissa dodged that question, alright :)<br /><br />The most interesting question from the audicene was one about how she had managed to hire so many talented people, and Google had been able to scale so fast. Marissa said that they early on had a discussion in top management together with recruitment consultants, deciding upon the two most important characteristics Google should be looking for in candidates: People who are <span style="font-style: italic;">smart</span>, and who are <span style="font-style: italic;">getting things done</span>.<br /><br />Photo by Tiziano.Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-56540877026751959562008-12-10T01:19:00.002+01:002008-12-10T01:32:19.911+01:00French simplicityI am in Paris for the <a href="http://www.lewebparis.com/">LeWeb08</a> conference, and hopefully I'll manage to write a few lines about my reflections from the sessions tomorrow. Right now I'll only comment on a wonderful and pretty neat restaurant we went to tonight: <a href="http://www.relaisentrecote.fr/">Le Relais de l’Entrecôte</a>.<br /><br />They do not take reservations, which means that we (and everyone else arriving 9-ish) had to stand in line for half an hour, and they only serve one single meal: Entrecôte with french fries and their super-secret sauce. Vegetarians should go somewhere else. At least you could choose between soft drinks, beer or wine with that. It was wonderful.<br /><br />After that, some drinks at <a href="http://www.laduree.fr/">Ladurée</a> wrapped up a perfect evening. Looking forward to the conference tomworrow when <a href="http://joi.ito.com">Joi</a> and Marissa will speak.Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11487532.post-88308075018709282082008-12-03T16:05:00.006+01:002008-12-03T21:50:57.866+01:00My Swedish blog as Mayor of Vaxholm<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIldmKTYaCYJeztqc9ALZU5jP_OIxf4AUqdvQBBSxx2t2QQi8zvRyaPB_KBR__6M7Pq1N_FRArkwtapoaAremCgRXB0wGfbtS38tj8fS_V9ZFH6p0gf38TgFBhoo5EWzHAvpxB/s1600-h/Vaxholm_vapen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 251px; height: 304px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIldmKTYaCYJeztqc9ALZU5jP_OIxf4AUqdvQBBSxx2t2QQi8zvRyaPB_KBR__6M7Pq1N_FRArkwtapoaAremCgRXB0wGfbtS38tj8fS_V9ZFH6p0gf38TgFBhoo5EWzHAvpxB/s320/Vaxholm_vapen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275592203914716946" border="0" /></a>I fired up a new blog (in Swedish) a couple of weeks ago at <a href="http://www.mosseby.com/">www.mosseby.com</a>.<br /><br />I'll use that blog with the ambition of having an intimate online relationship with the citizens of Vaxholm. During my years as a politician, I have heard one above all from the people in Vaxholm: "We don't know what's going on!" I want to change that.<br /><br />I also acknowledge that times really have changed. People can't/won't/don't want to acquire information in the same way as yesterday. People seldom want to spend a few hours after work on workdays to listen to/discuss local politics - unless it is something that <span style="font-style: italic;">affect them immediately and significantly</span>.<br /><br />Yesterday's model with general meetings, covering a broad variety of different stuff, is simply not the format. If a certain road/school/arena/building is in a process of change, people want to be able to find specific information about what the change is about, what the likely outcome is and what considerations that has been taken. They do not want to try and parse through a number of protocols, which in the end doesn't state anything more than the actual decisions, anyway.<br /><br />People also want to affect the processes for change win input in a direct, and often open and transparent way. Through forums, e-mails and IM to their politicians and officials. And the politicians and officials need to have a workflow that give them the opportunity to use such input in a contributing, positive and creative manner. Not to be seen and felt as a burden, as it seems many looks upon such input today.<br /><br />So that's going to be part of my mission as Mayor of Vaxholm. And I'm starting with <a href="http://www.mosseby.com/">www.mosseby.com</a>.Per Mossebyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06315782158028478002noreply@blogger.com0