Gunillocentrism – web diary of a freelance journalist

I hope I soon won’t have to bore you with more details from my eternal struggle with technology. Let me just say that what I wrote in the previous posting about having had my Internet fixed was sadly _not_ true, at least not then.

Some hours after the bug with _sending_ e-mail had been fixed, I disovered I could no longer _check_ them! I had to crash the office of my friend Michel again, and harrass another poor programmer. After sju sorger and åtta bedrövelser, as we say in Swedish, we _finally_ solved all problems – so now I can really send as well as check my e-mails. It hasn’t worked properly for a month!!!
I haven’t been able to work at all, so I am really lagging behind with story deadlines, story pitching, etc… Even going to New York has been severely delayed, which means I have missed the *opportunity* of going to Louisiana and report on the catastrophe there (I hope to blog more on that later). Argghhhhh!!!! What a shame for a humanitarian affairs reporter like me!

The thing we had to do to solve the bug was to write this script into the system:
x-eudora-setting:12909=plain%20cram-md5
from this Eudora support site. Hey, was that complicated, or what?! I hope a blonde like me could be forgiven for not figuring that one out on her own (it wasn’t easy for the pro-programmers, either).

Other than trouble shooting all kinds of technical problems, I have been very busy hanging out at fancy restaurants in and around Stockholm lately, such as Kafé Pladder, Lux and Riche with friends.
Today, I took my sick and poor and lonely dad to Bockholmen Hav och Restaurang. It’s fabulous, and the chicken we had and the view of sea and boats cheered us both up a lot!

And then I spent the evening playing with my cute nieces. Clara, the 2-year old, is so clever - today I taught her pretty strange words such as “fyr” (light-house) and “mullvad” (mole) because they were depicted in one of her books – and she picked them up immediately.

/Gunilla