April 2003 Archives

It looks as if I beat Magnus Müller and got the desirable muller.se-domain!

First I thought I lost. Although my name was listed before my competitor's, there was a 1 before his name and a 2 before my name and call me stupid but somehow I thought that meant he was first in line and I second.

Apparently not. The first name on the list is the winner, independent from what figure might be attached to it. Or at least I think so, I haven't yet gotten a confirmation and I'm not celebrating until I know for sure.

Just wanted to share the (hopefully) good news :-)

Today at one o'clock it will be decided who gets it. Gets what? The desirable domain muller.se of course!

After years of rigid rules allowing only corporations and countrywide organisations to register a domain directly under .se, leaving everyone else with a ugly province letter, the Swedish administrators finally decided to loosen up the rules a bit. It used to be like this, if I wanted to register my family name Müller I would have to choose where to register it, for example in Stockholm and then it would have been muller.a.se. In Gothenburg: muller.o.se.

These rules are finally history and now everyone can register what they want. And of course I want muller.se! The problem is another person wants it too and today at one o'clock there will be a lottery deciding who gets all the desirable domains with two or more interested buyers. Everything will be aired at nic.se's homepage so go have a look and keep your fingers crossed for me!

I too, have wondered about the German toilets. Why do they look like that? Reading Scott's posting about it, I had to laugh out loud because it's hiliarious! (via Simon).

Didn't a Swedish stand-up comedy guy make joke about this a couple of years ago? Suggesting that the Germans, after having done number 2, turns around and if they're satisfied with the result, happily sighs das habe ich gemacht!" :-)

All you Germans out there (and Austrians too becuase your toilets looks pretty much the same), enlighten us!

Yes it does. Discovered three new ones today: Dawn in Linköping, Carrie in Kiruna and Gale in Malmö.

Yes, I'm going to Vienna for the Blog Talk Conference. The other Stephanie is joining too. Weeh! Great! :-)

My parents, currently on vacation in Thailand, apparently found an Internetcafé so that they could update their blog which I convinced them to get before leaving.

I'm hosting their blog at the moment, but that's only because their domain and web hotel isn't ready yet.

In Stockholm, the weather seems to be moving backwards towards winter again... it's freezing cold. God, I wish I was in Thailand as well!

I managed to make a new index-page which includes the five latest entries from my blog! I'm very proud of myself :-) The page is not really all done yet but I'm too eager to wait... so go have a look: http://www.steffanie.net/index.shtml

The government negotiations in Finland is over resulting in a three-party-coalition: the Center Party, the Swedish People's Party and the Social Democratic Party.

The new prime minister is a woman, Anneli Jäätteenmäki from the Center Party.

This means the two most prominent positions in Finland are held by women: Tarja Halonen as president and Anneli Jäätteenmäki as prime minster. Cool!

Read more in the international edition of Helsingin Sanomat. Or DN if you prefer Swedish.

I have more or less decided to go to Vienna for the BlogTalk Conference in May. Anyone wanna come along?

Gunnar Langemark isn't in favour of Denmark sending troops to Iraq and made two suggestions for a new Danish flag.

The Danish flag, the Dannebrog, is the worlds oldest cross flag by the way. According to the myth, the Dannebrog falled from the sky on the Danish army at the battle of Volmer 1219.