So yeah. There is this conference on Norwegian-Russian relations in the Arctic that is being held on Svalbard next week. When I first heard about it I thought it would be cool to attend, but I forgot to ask my thesis supervisor/professor if there was any opportunity for me to go. (He is the leader of the project that is arranging this conference, and my thesis is also attached to the same research project.) Enter the summer vacation; by the time I came back to the university, I had completely forgot about it.. until I happened to read about it this week. I sent an email to my professor, and he told me that, unfortunately, they couldn’t afford to invite me, but if somebody couldn’t come I might get their ticket. I thought that this was it, and was resigned to reading summaries about the different lectures and discussions when they came back home again.
This Friday I got the good news. I’ve never been to Svalbard before, so it’s certainly going to be an exciting experience. We even get to go to Pyramiden, a Russian ghost town not that far from Longyearbyen, where the conference is being held. That’s going to be an interesting trip, especially since I love urban decay and “contemporary” archeology. It might also provide some inspiration for something I am working on. I might post more about that later.
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So I finally made the effort of setting up a blog again, after years of absence. For those who for some reason don’t know me; I’m a 24 year-old guy that finds himself in the norwegian town of Tromsø. I like long walks on the beach, video games, role-playing games, movies, books, music & general geekery. Since I am nearing the end of my Master’s Degree in History, there is bound to be some history-related stuff that ends up being posted here.
For those who care, the site is built with (mostly) compliant xhtml and css, and was written entirely in notepad. It’s been a while since I did any web development, and I had a lot of fun fiddling with this during the last week or so. This time I have chosen to go with WordPress, and so far I have to say I like it a lot. Template editing was easy enough once I had the css and xhtml in order, and there’s a plethora of plugins that do the things I want; both Twitter and Spotify/Last.fm integration, as you can see from the sidebar. There is bound to be a few things I’ve missed though, but I’ll sort those out as they appear.
A few acknowledgements:
I have given myself an open license in regards to content, so it will be about whatever I feel like writing. That means no general overlying theme, but I’ll try to not write any stupid entries about what I had for breakfast. One classic genre is of course Interesting Things I found on the Internet, as well as reviews or comments on games, books, movies, music and TV shows I have consumed or encountered recently. We’ll see.
