Hi all

Yesterday the whole family (Wife, two kids and myself) went to an apple farm (http://www.frugtogmost.dk/) to get apples. I’ve never been to an apple farm before, but it was a great trip, even though it rained, and the kids loved it. The farm had a tractor that had some carts after it and we got a ride around the farm in one of the carts

We ended up picking (and hence buying) 7,5kg apples, 6kg pears and some plums. Oh yeah, and 3,75L apple juice

All in all a great trip… and most important to me, off course, is, that I had the time, since I no longer work that hard on the book.

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eliasen

Hi all

So I spent Wednesday and Thursday in this week in Sweden, which was a strange experience.

First of all, even though our languages are actually quite similar, I don’t understand a single word.

Secondly, even though Sweden are bragging that they are the country in the world where the most people have the fastest broadband internet connections (or something like that) they still have a very primitive way to handle train passengers that have bought a 10-ticket-strip. You need to go to an employee and get a manual stamp on the piece of paper.

And finally, a weird experience was when I got out of the airport in Stockholm and needed a cab to take me to my hotel. Funny thing was that there were cabs in 5 lines and the cab drivers from all the front row cabs and even some of the cabs in the second row were all shouting to make me choose that particular cab. I hate that – several people wanting me to choose them and having to reject some of them. And I wonder why on earth the cab drivers from the cabs in the second row were also shouting. I mean… their cabs couldn’t even get out! In Denmark, if you try to get in a cab that is not the cab that was first on the scene, the cab driver will tell you to go to the cab that was first on the scene. They make sure internally that cabs get customers in the same order the cabs arrived in.

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eliasen

Hi all

My older son started school a month ago, and we take our bikes to school every morning. It’s good exercise and it teaches him to do that instead of taking a car no matter where we are going.

But, his bike is rather small and he really must put in an effort to keep up with the rest of us

So today we got him a new larger bike. It has three gears and a hand brake, and he loves it. He is out riding it with his mother right now. I think they are getting a cake from the bakery actually, so we all get something from this

It’s just fantastic to watch him on his new bike, and Monday morning will be great, going to school

So if any of you wondered what the DKr 3000,- were to be used for, this is it!

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eliasen

Hi all

My wife and I just received a check for DKr 3,000,- (around 400 Euro) from The Danish Cancer Society.

It’s a lottery, and we pay DKr 200 nine times a year to participate in the lottery. The good thing is, of course, that even though we loose, the money still goes to research for a cure for cancer.

I think we have played for 6 years or so, meaning DKr 10,800 and we have won DKr 200,- and then the DKr 3,000 today. So DKr 7,600 have gone to research.

Consider participating… It’s a good cause.

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eliasen

Hi all

If you go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/default.aspx you can see that this month I am the featured BizTalk MVP – yeah…

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eliasen