At long last, pictures and notes from our vacation in Sweden this September. Still stuck writing for work, so I'll mostly post images wi...

A few Monday morning notes, in no particular order: I know paper reviews are simply reviewing your paper, not your work or yourself. Tha...

Dagens Nyheter is the largest paper and normally a quite serious publication. The current headline is "Räddningsarbetare Har Hastigt I...

I gave a presentation at my home department at Kyoto university this week - I normally work at NAIST in Nara as I'm collaborating with a...

The vote count is almost over, and the coalition got one more seat, still two shy of a majority. They lacked nine votes in Värmland and seve...

According to Dagens Nyheter, just a few votes can change the voting results. In Darlarna district (where my parents and I vote), there'...

The Swedish election was fairly close, with the center-right coalition just three seats from a majority. As it turns out, as few as another ...

The preliminary 1 results of the Swedish election are about as expected. The coalition won, but are a meager three seats shy of a majority....

The Swedish election is only a couple of days away. The polls open on Sunday - that's Sunday evening here, and we'll know the result...

We're packing our things and leaving for Paris tomorrow. Meanwhile: The Swedish election is one month away. The two major coalitions - t...

It's election day in Japan today. Rain is pouring over Osaka, which means low turnout and a boost for the DPJ as protest voters stay hom...

As I've said, there's a general election coming up in Sweden in September. I've been trying to write about this for a long time ...

The Swedish parliament voted yesterday for a bill that ends compulsory draft and military service for male 18-year old citizens. From July 1...

Have you heard of "Metal Umlauts" , perhaps? When a heavy-metal band wants a name that sounds exotic, gothic and vaguely menacing ...

It's Tuesday and the new year work-week has begun. Oh, technically it began yesterday - and I was toiling away at work, like a good litt...

Busy, busy, but I have to take up an obvious piece of faulty reasoning here. An opinionator in the Swedish daily paper Dagens Nyheter by th...

Today is Midsummer in Sweden. The actual summer solstice is on Sunday, but the celebration is on the Friday closest to the solstice. It'...

Osaka Gay Parade 2007 In a happy bit of news, the Swedish parliament have just overwhelmingly (261 out of 349 in favor, with only 22 against...

Ikea is: A source of inexpensive design furniture; a famously penny-pinching but attractive employer; killer of local furniture stores; a sy...

Policeman breaks up a fight between a drunk and a taxidriver It can't have escaped any reader of this blog that I like Osaka. I really ...