A round-trip flight from Zurich to Stockholm costs 2280 CHF unless you stay over the weekend or you stop over in Prague then prices drop to 680 CHF. I opted for the weekend solution and arrived day early in Västerås. From Monday to Friday the annual Scandinavian System Management Conference aka NordU/USENIX 2003 will take place here. I am scheduled to give a talk on large scale System management on Thursday.
But I am skipping ahead, the Week has not even started yet. In Sweden, shops are closed on Sunday and on this particular one it was also rather cold outside. So apart from a short walk to lakeside I spent most of the day in the hotel room, writing my own web journal software.
I had hunted the net for a bit, but all that is out there seems to insist on doing all the editing over the web. What a drag. Why should I edit with a crappy text widget in a browser when my beloved editor sits on the very same machine. So I dug in, and finally after many hours a first version of the code is working and I am writing my first entry, I am planning to use this for writing reports on the talks and tutorials I am going to attend this week.