This weekend I'll go to a beading convention again, www.facettsthlm.se. I had my shop with me the last time at Facett.STHLM, but this time I'm "only" a participant. That will be nice for a change. Actually, it has already been nice. You sell a lot during one such weekend, but it requires weeks of preparations for a shop like mine that isn't ( Read more... )

The story in book four of Wheel of Time, The Shadow Rising, is straggling to say the least. Everyone heads off in different directions, and the bunch heading off to the Waste talk so little among themselves that they can be considered heading off in different directions too ( Read more... )

The Dragon Reborn, part 3 of The Wheel of Time, is probably the last one in the series that I really enjoyed. After that I continued reading out of habit and because I wanted to know how RJ will knit it all together. The characters are almost through their initial metamorphosis, but not yet so much that the habits they adapt for the rest of the ( Read more... )

The Royal court of Sweden announced today that Crown princess Victoria and Daniel Westling will be married next year. The engagement rings will be shown officially later today. My best wishes to the happy couple :-)

I finished Fable II (XBox360) yesterday ( Read more... )

I finished The Great Hunt (part 2 in The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan) yesterday. It is possibly my favourite book in the series (at least among the first ten books). Maybe it's because it's one of the few books where a lot of things happen. There are developments in every direction, and the whispers of "more to come" in The Eye of the World are ( Read more... )

This is the third time I "read" The Eye of the World. The first time I read it was in 1995 or 1996 and the second time perhaps 4-5 years later when I was waiting for a new book in the series and had found that I had forgotten a lot of what had happened. Now I'm waiting for the last book, and I decided to reread them all before that. I don't have ( Read more... )

The Sims 3 release date has been pushed forward to June (preliminary date was February 19). This is a good thing, assuming they use the extra time for fixing bugs. It also means I can wait a few months before I buy a new computer ( Read more... )

Last week I finally got a new workstation at work. Unfortunately the poor thing came infested with Windows Vista ( Read more... )

Now we've seen all four operas in Richard Wagner's great work Der Ring des Nibelungen. The good thing about operas is that "spoilers" don't spoil them, but still I am afraid to say too much, because that might change your expectations and your experience if you ever see it ( Read more... )