… and the sky is ultra-gray. Not very fun ;/

On the other hand some things are shaping up. As I mentioned previously, my 3G USB-stick is proving to be very competent and useful. Even works in a stone cellar below ground with just one Window (Café Gråmunken, Old town, Stockholm)

The best thing about the stick is that it works out of the box on my Aspire One, as it is detected as “Option 3G”. That is, the unit’s networking software detects it as the 3G option that will be shipped with newer Aspire models. Very nice indeed.

For those interested, this is how it looks:

My provider is Bredbandsbolaget (Telenor), and the make & model of the stick is Qualcomm 3G CDMA GI0225.

Cheers,

Using my new 3G/HSDPA USB stick and it works great. I’m in the middle of nowhere and I got a high strength signal. Makes me think of how much wireless technology has evolved during the last 5 years and how widely accessible it is.

In other news, participated in my first “Readers panel” over at The Local. The questions posed are mostly about the Swedish society and this month the question was “What do you think about the Swedish alcohol policy?”. As usual I was too serious about it and ended up sounding like a politician

In Sweden the FRA-law moves ahead without any of the amendments being implemented as these are scheduled to be included in October 2009. Not good, but really no news. This was announced at the same time that the amendments were presented so I don’t really feel surprised. Same fascistic law anyhow, with or without the pink bow.

PS. For those new to this blog, posts that starts with “Q.P.” are “QuickPosts”. This means that I’m most often on the move while writing them and they won’t have any nice, illustrative, images like most of my other posts. .DS