I started skiing when we moved to Sweden but I'm awful. I do try, but I'm awful. I think it has something to do with my age and teaching dogs new tricks. It doesn't work with me and I still won't go down the main slope at our local ski hill. But I will this year and I've got inspiration.

But I'm posting this because there isn't enough English publicity about the ski hill in our village and it deserves it. Also, because of that inspiration I've found.

Read more: Bygdsiljumsbacken doesn't get enough English publicity

The Google car has visited Bygdsiljum and you can now drive down one road and to the top of the ski-hill, minus the snow.

You don´t actually get to see much in Bygdsiljum and Google has pretty much missed most, but it´s still pretty cool that you can have a little look. Maybe, in time they will come back.

Read more: The Google car in Bygdsiljum

I say setting up a new ISP, but I've sort of decided against reinventing the wheel, unless I have too. You see, when I started out wanting to do this, I was told that it wasn't possible to set up a service for the village and that if we were to be accepted onto the portal to offer a service, we would have to offer it to the entire region. Things are changing though, so our plans have changed also.

Read more: Final stages of setting up a new ISP

A few summers ago everybody in the village where I live were given the option of getting internet access, but at the time, it wasn't a case of a switch getting flicked.

It involved lots of hard work and everyone that wanted a fiber internet connection had to quite literally dig the ditches and lay the fiber throughout the village and up to their house, to get it.

Read more: Project Bygdsiljum First

Just a few images. Click the image to the right then you should be able to go left and right to view the others.

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When it is summer, I´m looking forward to winter and when it´s winter I look forward to summer. Today, I was told our local cafe is now closing at 6pm instead of the 8pm it does in the summer. Summer is over.

But that doesn´t mean winter is here or that it´s freezing cold or that we will have snow next week, but it is coming and I´m not looking forward to it too much now.

Read more: It´s going to get cold and the snow is coming

The internet connection we get in Sweden is excellent and when you consider we're in a very small village, 60km from what would be considered quite a small town in England, and you get a 10Mbit download connection and a 4Mbit upload connection, you can't complain.

Read more: 100Mbit up and down connection coming soon!

Efter den första någonsin Dell Mini 9 med Ubuntu skall transporteras i Sverige är mitt första blogginlägg på svenska, även om du är svensk, du kommer att inse att det är fel. Om du inte och du har ingen aning om vad du läser just nu, du bara tror att jag är super smart, men om du kopplar via Google Översättning, du vet exakt vad jag ska göra.

Read more: Första blogginlägg på svenska och möjligen det sista