July 7th, 2008 Peter Korkala
Today I woke up to a cold, rainy day. The thermometer tells me to not wear shorts today, +8 degrees C is not warm. The rain is pouring down. Welcome to an ordinary Swedish summer day.
This is a view from my kitchen window, looking towards the main road.
Tags: Swedish summer, photo
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July 6th, 2008 Peter Korkala
Today I signed up for EntreCard. I’ll give it a try, since a couple of blogs I’m reading are satisfied with the result.
My goal with EC is definitely not to cash in a lot of dollars – I want to be a part of the “EC community” and maybe gain some more visitors. As a bonus I’m going to find new blogs that I will love – and I’ve already found the first one (added to my blogroll): Photos from Northern Norway.
Update: I thought I might add my own EntreCard to this post. I made it up from the 3d-flag in the logo bar and the photo in my previous post. It will work for now.
Tags: entrecard
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July 4th, 2008 Peter Korkala
Here’s a photo I took last summer (May, 12th, 2007):
The lake is called Vasman, and this photo is taken just outside the town Ludvika, from an old mining fascility. The view from here was stunning!
This is about 35 km from my home. Here are a lot of lakes everywhere.
Tags: Ludvika, photo, Vasman, view, Sweden
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July 1st, 2008 Peter Korkala
Today I’ve adde a couple of new (for me) Japan-related blogs to my blogroll: MichaelMcKinlay.com, Mottekaero jDonuts and Nick Ramsay’s Blog.
It’s very fun to read these blogs, and the owners seem to be very nice people. You have to love the net – It doesn’t matter if you’re in Sweden or in the USA, you can still be a part of (or at least read about) the daily life in Japan!
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June 1st, 2008 Peter Korkala
Why don’t they just increase the train capacity in some way? Add more vehicles or trains? Or is it impossible without expanding the rail-network? Click on the image to see a video on YouTube where they are pushing people into the subway train.
The people hired to push people into the train is called Oshiya in Japanese. In what other cities are there people hired to push people?
Tags: Japan, Tokyo, subway, youtube
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June 1st, 2008 Peter Korkala
Today I discovered a new (to me) advertising network: Project Wonderful.
You buy and sell ad-space by auctions that never end. The current highest bidder gets his ad showed on the site. It seems to be a very great opportunity to advertise on many sites at a low cost. I’m going to check this out!
Is there any chance to run a Swedish version of this concept maybe?
Tags: advertise, project wonderful, auctions
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May 17th, 2008 Peter Korkala
I’ve added two links in the blogroll. The links are Tokyo-Tom and Japan Explained. I’m very interested in Japan, especially the daily life of ordinary people, and there will certainly be more links in the Japan-related category.
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April 26th, 2008 Peter Korkala
Today I upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5.1. I hope everything works…
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April 12th, 2008 Peter Korkala
I’ve signed up at Technorati, and by posting this link on my blog I’m confirming to Technorati that this is my blog. For all of you others – don’t bother about it. :)
Update June 6:
It’s strange that this post is the most commented – despite the fact that I told you to don’t bother about it. But, spam-robots maybe don’t understand those words? Anyhow I’m closing comments for this post right now.
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April 12th, 2008 Peter Korkala
Hello and welcome to the newest blog of mine.
For a long time I’ve thought of starting a blog written in English. Now – with the release of WordPress 2.5 – I saw a good reason to start up a new site, not just for the sake of testing WP 2.5 out, but also to start blogging in English.
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