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Who is Steffanie Müller?

A 31 year old woman living in Stockholm, Sweden.

Why are you blogging?

Because I enjoy writing and the interactivity that comes with writing on the webb. I registered my domain steffanie.net 1998 mostly because I wanted to have cool email address. Then I decided I wanted a homepage as well and started publishing a webjournal. My first entry is stilla available online. I did all the coding by hand, which meant quite a lot of work, so when I heard about Movable Type around Christmas 2002, I immediately wanted to install it to automate all the boring work.

So you have been publishing your webjournal online for over five years?

Yes, but I call it a blog nowdays, although I belive there is no import diffrence between webjournals and blogs. The share the same format, dated entries put in a reverse chronological order. But my writing has changed the last couple of years. I'm not that interested in sharing every bit of my daily life nowdays, I prefer writing about other things.

So what are you writing about today?

About things I read in the paper, about books, what I see on tv, if I go listend to a seminar and stuff like that. Still some entries are more diary-like then others, but it's the mix that makes blogs interesting.

What do you do when you're not blogging?

Well, I have a BA in journalism and I will soon start working at one of the largest newspapers in Sweden.

If you want to know something more... just ask!

I decided to move all my German entries to a new blog: Deutsch für Anfänger.

I thought a new and shiny special German blog might get me to write more often in German (so why the hell am I writing this in English?). Anyway... go and have a look, my poor grammar might give the German language a whole new dimension! ;-)

Test your writing and see if you are a woman or a man. The Gender Genie uses an algoritm to decide the sex of the author and I turned out to be a woman, just as I had suspected :)

Found via jill/txt.

1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country?

To Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while traveling?

Two years ago I went by bus from Nijmegen in the Netherlands to Stockholm in Sweden which took somewhat 30 hours because the busdriver couldn't find the right way (!) The toilet was also out of order and because of that the bus smelled like a urinoar that had never been cleaned. It was a horrible trip and after this I promised myself I would never go by bus again.

3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?

My dream right now is to go to the US. I have never been there and I would really like to see the country for myself, not just hear other people talk about it.

4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car?

I'm very impatient so I prefer plane. Time passes quicker when you get interupted by airhostess all the time :-) Going by train, I have a four hour maximum time limit, then I get really impatient. Going by bus is a nightmare (see above). Going by car is okay but I don't have a car so that doesn't happen very often.

5. What's the next place on your list to visit?

I was hoping to go to Helsinki next week to see some friends and eat crayfish but I must work on my thesis instead :(

A weblog is always both for oneself and for one's readers. If it were only for oneself, a private diary would be more useful. If it were only for readers, and not a tool for oneself, a more polished and finished form of publication would probably be more appropriate.

Blogs exist right on this border between what's private and what's public, and often we see that they disappear deep into the private sphere and reveal far too much information about the writer. When a blog is good, it contains a tension between the two spheres, as delicate a balancing act as the conversation of any experienced guest of the French salons of the 19 th century.

From Blogging thoughts: personal publication as on online research tool by Torill Mortensen and Jill Walker.

Just as email made us all writers, weblogs have made all of us publishers.

From We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture
from Perseus Publishing.

Biljana Plavsic, serving an 11 years' imprisonment in Sweden for crimes against humanity, is problematic for the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.

Before Plavsic was transferred to the prison for women where she will be living, she was placed in custody in Stockholm. At Kronobergsh�ktet she recieved benfits that other inmates don't have. For example: she had a better cell, she were allowed to stay outdoors longer than the others, she got a cake on her birthday (!) and the guards also bought her Serbian newspapers.

The union and the prison guards at Kronobergshäktet is very critical to the prison management for giving the orders that Plavsic was not to be treated as a normal inmate.

- Other murderers are not welcomed to Kronobergshäktet with a handshake, says a prison guard who wishes to remain anonymous, to Svenska Dagbladet.

I re-arranged my category archives today. I removed some that I don't use and made a new one called society instead where put some of the stuff that have been floating around un-categorized.

I also decided to remove the Swedish archive because it's growing too big and I'm still suffering from insufficient disk space. Most of my entries are in Swedish so I guess it's easier to point out the English and the German ones instead.

1. What time do you wake up on weekday mornings?

0700

2. Do you sleep in on the weekends? How late?

0830

3. Aside from waking up, what is the first thing you do in the morning?

Drink water. Go to the bathroom. Make coffee. Collect the morning paper.

4. How long does it take to get ready for your day?

20–90 minutes.

5. When possible, what is your favorite place to go for breakfast?

In my parents garden.

Okay, I admit. It's no secret anymore so I'll just come out and say it. Yes, I would not say no if Mads Mikkelsen asked me to marry him.

Damn, is he good looking! I'm glued to the telly every Thursday night when Rejseholdet (Mordkommissionen pΠsvenska) is on.

Of course, the possibility (or risk) of Mikkelsen asking me to marry him isn't that high but anyway. It feels good to come out :-)

In this week's episode, Fischer (Mads Mikkelsen) and la Cour (Lars Brygmann) goes to a summer house toghether with Fischer's family. Their idyllic vacation is interupted by a murder in the surrounding where the local police needs assistance from Rejseholdet... *wooow* Can ahrdly wait! :-)