My Spot in the World

A nice day with clear and crisp air - that’s one of my favourite types of weather!
(Although it’s raining in the photo, it’s a good indicator of the fact that fall is here.)

The harddisk arrived the day after I ordered it! I plugged it into the laptop and booted with the XP CD. After the installation was done, I had to install all the other softwares I need. It took almost the whole afternoon/evening before everything was done, but now I have a faster laptop with four times more space! I’m very satisfied!

I’m having the morning shift (6:00am - 2:00pm) this week, and today I woke up at 6:30!! Hurry, hurry! Switch on the coffee maker, call work and tell them I’m late, put new lenses in my eyes, drink two cups of coffee, walk the yellow dog and drive to work… Not a good start of the day…

Today I ordered a new harddisk for my laptop. The HD I looked at earlier was not in stock, so I had to take another one because I’m in a little bit of a hurry. I need to get my laptop up and running, since I have a lot of work to do (websites to update and freelance articles for a magazine to finish).
Hopefully the new HD will arrive tomorrow or wednesday.

The HD I’ve ordered is a Western Digital Scorpio 2.5" 80 GB.

Dammit!
The harddisk in my laptop is broken. The last couple of days I’ve got a lot of bluescreens and hangings. At an early stage I suspected that the harddisk is going to crash, so I’ve managed to backup all the important files (at least I think so – there’s for sure one or another file that I’ll be missing).
I need to buy a new harddisk - the sooner the better. I’ve looked at a Hitachi Travelstar 5k160 80 GB 2.5”. That disk is a lot faster that the IBM 20 GB I have now, and with four times more space I think it’s a good deal (the price is 550 SEK, around $80 USD).

I’m still around here, I’ve just been very busy with other things so I haven’t had the time to blog… I hope I’ll manage to get a post up here today or maybe tomorrow.

As long as I can remember I’ve known that the tallest construction on earth is the Warsaw Radio Mast in Poland. With a height of 646 meters it’s way taller than both the CN Tower in Toronto (553 m), Sears Tower in Chicago (527 m to top of antenna) and the newly built Taipei 101 in Taiwan (509 m to top of spire). 

Today I read an article on Wikipedia about the present construction of the Burj Dubai skyscraper. The current height of the tower is 512 m – 3 meters higher than the current highest skyscraper in the world, Taipei 101.

I didn’t even know about this project, still I think it’s very interesting with skyscrapers… I’m a little amazed that I’ve managed to completely miss the project in Dubai.

I followed some links on Wikipedia about tall buildings and structures, and eventually the shock was on me. The Warsaw Radio Mast collapsed in August 1991 – almost 16 years ago. I didn’t know that, I’ve been living in a false world for sixteen years!

The mast collapsed during maintenance work with the wires that keeps the mast stable. Two responsible persons on the firm, which maintained the mast, were sentenced to 2 respective 2.5 years for causing the catastrophe.

Yesterday we went for a ride in our neighborhood. We visited a couple of tiny villages situated in the middle of the forest (like everything else here).

In the first village there was some kind of event, a flea market and an outdoor café. We went over the market rather fast and decided to continue to the next village, but first we stopped by the church for a quick visit.

In the next village we visited a sheep farm were they make cheese from sheep milk. The cheese is kind of famous, but I’m not going to try it – I don’t eat stuff that’s moldy…

Before we went home we stopped by a very nice lake to grill some hotdogs.

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Saturday night I discovered a new hobby: editing/adding articles on WikiPedia. I like to read all kind of articles there, and why not contribute to such a good site? I’ve edited/added articles both in Swedish and English.
 

Now I have to go to work for a couple of hours. I promised to do some cleaning (well, run a cleaning program) on one of our machines because we didn’t have the time to do that Friday night.

I had to stay at work untill 10 pm, as there was much work to do - and in addition things just had to malfunction…

We ran out of one very important thing, and we searched the whole warehouse without luck. Of course there was no one to call (who could check the stock in the computer, or tell us what to do) due to the late hour, so we had to improvise.

It’s SO irritating when something like this happens! It’s not the first time, it happens all the time (at least once a week).

On my way home there was a gorgeous sunset!

I’m working the evening shift this week (2 pm to 10 pm). It’s only one shift left to work before the weekend, but it’s the worst one – being at work until 10 pm Friday evening really sucks! I hope we’ll be able to go home earlier, but it depends on the amount of work that has to be done today.

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On Wednesday we went to a nearby lake to take some photos. It was very windy and it was about to start raining any minute.

This photo is not in b/w, it’s the light that makes it look like I’ve desaturated it. I used a different setting in the camera to measure the light - spotmeasured instead of evaluated. You can get very dramatic photos using this setting (and it’s perfect if you want to take photos of clouds or the moon).