Reflections from Stockholm

... during morning rush hour in the tube.

Why do all handrails in escalators move faster than the escalator itself? I don't think I've ridden a single one where I don't have to move pull my hand back every few seconds because the handrail is not synchronised to the moving stairs.

Perhaps they're designed by the same engineers who make bus engines.

Stockholm _does_ move at a different pace from Gbg. Everyone here is so gosh-darned important and horribly stressed (this is a point of pride and honour, as one can read in editorials, books and blogs; the smugness at being stressed always shines through). I thought I walked slowly in Gbg but here it's twice worse. Plus no one here gives way the least little bit at all ever!

All the streets and tube corridors echo with the clatter of pumps and women's high-heeled boots. What a racket.

But communications are mostly running frequently and on time -- a very pleasant change to Gbg and Värsttrafik!

Only one more day to spend here...

Also...

"Genesis of the Daleks" DVD in my computer -- if work should get too boring here at the office!

BBC vs SVT

British Nationalist Party leader to appear on BBC, protests happen.

But where were the protests when our own version of this took place the other day? There, suddenly, was Jimmie Åkesson in the morning sofa on TV, looking all respectable and Christian Democrat-like in suit and tie. Battling censorship is one thing, but actively inviting them in, those ppl, that's another thing entirely. What on earth were you thinking, SVT?!

Avgå Fredrik Reinfeldt!