2 Dec 2005 e8johan   » (Journeyer)

I'm at a expedition at Kiruna, Sweden. I've never been this far north before, and I'm not really longing to be here for long either. The sun is up for about 2 hours a day, it is -22 centigrades and lots of snow. I you wonder, I work as a consultant for the car industry and we are performing cold climate (no kidding) testing.

The only advantage of being here is that you really don't have anything except work to do, so you're pretty effective. That is, counting per day, not per hour.

Also, I've got some good reading and coding time here at the hotel when I try to kill of some of my free time. Tomorrow will be a free day, so I'll try to visit Esrange or the mine here. The ice hotel hasn't opened yet and going on a wale safari means getting up at 3:30 am and spending 4 hours in a car... call me boring, but I'll rather stay here.

Well, the hotel has a free WLAN with decent bandwidth and I've got Qt 4 installed on my company laptop, so I guess I have a chance to try out some of the news in Qt 4...

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