Wunderwelt Technik / Magic world of computers...
So manch eine(r) musste sich die letzten Tage ueber meine Emails wundern denn eines meiner groessten Probleme hier in Schweden war nicht - wie fuer jeden anderen Laender-Hopper die Akklimatisierung an eine wiederum fremde Mentalitaet (huch, die sind so offen) - noe - sondern der Internetanschluss. Dieses Problem - so habe ich gelernt - kann nach 3 Tagen beim technischen Unverstaendnis eines Vermieters sogar bis zur Drohung des Rausschmisses meiner Person fuehren. Um es kurz zu machen: ich habe bis heute keinen festen Anschluss (und Nachbars ungeschuetztes Netz laesst auch zu wuenschen uebrig).
So bin ich also einem meiner Chefs so lange auf die Nerven gegangen ("Willst Du mich von der Welt isolieren??" / " Haben deutsche Asylanten kein Recht auf Datenautobahn??" / "Nach Hause telefoniern..." (nasal mit dem Zeigefinger E.T.-like nach oben) bis er ein USB-Modem rausgerueckt hat.
In kurzen, praegnanten Worten: klein, schwarz, einfach in den USB-Port stopfen, 3,6 Mbit geniessen. Egal wo, wann, warum...
So kommt es nun, dass ich in Gamla Stan in einem Cafe sitzen kann, warmen Apfelkuchen mit Vanillesosse verspeise , synchron dazu 5 Liter Latte Macchiato trinke UND diesen Blogeintrag schreiben kann.
Endlich wieder ein ganzer Mensch ;)
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Some of the Uli-email-receiving people might have wondered about the problems I was griping about during my first days here in Sweden. It wasn't the usual encounter with an - AGAIN - different mentality (this time "gosh! they are so... normal..") - nope... the biggest problem of all was internet access at my new residence. Soon I've discovered that only after 3 days in a new apartment the landlord's lack of understanding technology can lead to spontaneous expulsion of me as a tenant. To put it in a nutshell: I still do not have a fixed internet access in my apartment and will never have one (although access was my precondiion for moving in). And the neighbour's unprotected network isn't really a real smash...
This fact made me getting on peoples' nerves at work. So my boss constantly had to listen to:
"Do you want to isolate me from the rest of the world??" / "Do German asylum seekers not have the right to an information superhighway??" + an index finger like E.T. whining "skype hoooome...." until he finally came with a solution: USB-modem. --> plug into the USB port, immediately enjoy 3,6 mbit everywhere and at all times.
That's why I am now able to sit in Gamla Stan, eat warm apple pie with vanilla sauce, drink Latte Macchiat by the litre AND write this blog entry.
Finally a complete human being again.. ;)
So bin ich also einem meiner Chefs so lange auf die Nerven gegangen ("Willst Du mich von der Welt isolieren??" / " Haben deutsche Asylanten kein Recht auf Datenautobahn??" / "Nach Hause telefoniern..." (nasal mit dem Zeigefinger E.T.-like nach oben) bis er ein USB-Modem rausgerueckt hat.
In kurzen, praegnanten Worten: klein, schwarz, einfach in den USB-Port stopfen, 3,6 Mbit geniessen. Egal wo, wann, warum...
So kommt es nun, dass ich in Gamla Stan in einem Cafe sitzen kann, warmen Apfelkuchen mit Vanillesosse verspeise , synchron dazu 5 Liter Latte Macchiato trinke UND diesen Blogeintrag schreiben kann.
Endlich wieder ein ganzer Mensch ;)
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Some of the Uli-email-receiving people might have wondered about the problems I was griping about during my first days here in Sweden. It wasn't the usual encounter with an - AGAIN - different mentality (this time "gosh! they are so... normal..") - nope... the biggest problem of all was internet access at my new residence. Soon I've discovered that only after 3 days in a new apartment the landlord's lack of understanding technology can lead to spontaneous expulsion of me as a tenant. To put it in a nutshell: I still do not have a fixed internet access in my apartment and will never have one (although access was my precondiion for moving in). And the neighbour's unprotected network isn't really a real smash...
This fact made me getting on peoples' nerves at work. So my boss constantly had to listen to:
"Do you want to isolate me from the rest of the world??" / "Do German asylum seekers not have the right to an information superhighway??" + an index finger like E.T. whining "skype hoooome...." until he finally came with a solution: USB-modem. --> plug into the USB port, immediately enjoy 3,6 mbit everywhere and at all times.
That's why I am now able to sit in Gamla Stan, eat warm apple pie with vanilla sauce, drink Latte Macchiat by the litre AND write this blog entry.
Finally a complete human being again.. ;)
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