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Back In The Land Of Kings

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:05:22 +0000

I’m sitting in the familiar chair in front of my three TFT screens, behind my desk. Back in Sweden again, after a horrible day of traveling (I won’t fly intercontinental in economy class again), and a good night’s sleep in a room beyond 5 degrees Celsius. It feels good, albeit a little weird, since I was in Japan long enough to get into an everyday routine.

I’m jetlag free at the moment, a bit tired but that’s all. Flew in the right direction this time. I do believe I will be feeling a bit funky come afternoon, so I’m glad I planned on this day to be pretty unproductive. Gonna catch up on e-mails, finish writing my freelance gigs related to my Japan visit, and install Ubuntu on my Kohjinsha UMPC that I picked up. I was originally going for the Asus Eee PC, but it was sold out everywhere, so I’ll have to wait a bit on that one. The Kohjinsha is a bit cooler though, being a 7″ ultra-mobile tablet PC, but it runs Windows Vista in Japanese, and could be a bit more responsive, so I’m gonna wipe it out. A fun little project. More on that in later posts for sure.

I’ll upload my final photos to my Flickr account as well, didn’t do that this weekend, and I’ve got a bunch from Saturday and Sunday that will go up.

By the way, you certainly know when you’re back in Sweden. Getting off the train from the airport in Copenhagen, Denmark, at Malmö Central, it’s all elbows and people trying to trample you to get either in or out. Not like in Japan, where everyone keeps their distance and got a bit more patience with these things. There you go, cultural differences yet again.

Better get started then. Hello world, from Sweden.

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Four new photo sets from Japan

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:28:24 +0000

I’ve published another four photo sets from Japan to my Flickr account:

Had to upgrade to pro for this to work. Lots of photos… Anyway, follow my Japan 2008 collection for the latest from my trip to Japan!

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I’m in Japan

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:17:00 +0000

I was hoping to be able to start The Green Knight this week, but I’m beginning to think that I just won’t make it. Being in a whole different culture – I’m in Japan – takes its toll, and there’s a ton of things to see of course.

That being said, I think I’ll just push The Green Knight to next week (unless I find some extra time) when I’m back home. Maybe that’ll help me to avoid some stupid mistakes that are bound to happen due to jetlag, lack of sleep, and so on.

If you’re so inclined, do visit my Flickr gallery for photos from Japan. If not, stay tuned for the first part of The Green Knight.

Thanks for your patience.

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Happy Holidays!

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:36:49 +0000

Actually, I celebrate Christmas, but who cares. I just wanted to wish you all Happy Holidays, and urge you to take it really ease, relax as much as possible, and enjoy the time off. As of today, now really, I’m doing just that. Logging off includes not checking in on e-mail, no IM, no microblogging, actually no internet.

And no rethord.com. I’ll be back at work on January 7th, so expect this blog to come back to life around that time as well. Make sure you subscribe so that you don’t miss out, now that’s a good idea, don’t you think?

Happy Holidays, good people!

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I’m back, and can’t wait to relaunch this blog!

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:36:55 +0000

I’m back from my vacation, rested but loaded with work to be done in the coming two weeks. Business is good, thank you very much, I’ve got design gigs lined up and the requests keeps coming in.

In other words, I’m not complaining – but coming back from more than a week off is a bitch, honestly.

Anyway, I’m pumped up for projects and stuff, which means I need to start rolling out my new tdhedengren.com blog. It will make use of the design I made for my Swedish blog, tdh.se, and will sport regular updates. I guess I have to get myself a portfolio as well, my hire me page isn’t very exciting.

So I’m back. If I haven’t answered your e-mail that you sent no more than two weeks ago then send it again.

Peace out, people!

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I’m on vacation

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:48:57 +0000

Good people, I’m on vacation. This is my view, not too shabby, especially since the photo doesn’t do it justice. Click it for a larger version.

No broadband but my wonderful Sony Ericsson K810i at least gives me some kind of connectivity, although I do not intend to use it much. Basically, what I’m doing is checking my e-mail every other day and take it easy. Oh, and I write. A lot. I’ll let you in on what later on.

Anyway, take care for now, and check out Biziki that was relaunched with my design in my absence.

Take care.