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I am in the process of collecting all of my online blogs and journals on my own website. Some entries from this one will be moved as well, but I am fairly certain that I won't update this one from now on.
In the future, visit me at:
http://www.frandzen.com/
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Tomorrow we'll embark on a six day tour of Northern Germany, more specifically Lübeck, Wismar, Schwerin, Ludwigslust, Gustrow, Stralsund and the island of Rügen. Stay tuned for lots of pics taken with my new 12x Zoom camera :)
-Thomas |
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I have made a somewhat more personal blog for my Danish friends (and others) which is available - in Danish - at http://spaces.msn.com/tfrandzen/. I'll still update this journal occasionally, but as most of it's readers are Danish and some of the topics about which I write are of interest mostly to Danes, I've decided to split it up.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause ;-)
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Last week was fairly eventful. On Monday I attended U2 singer Bono's speech to the Børsen Executive Club, on Wedensday I turned in a complaint over the result of a recent exam, on Thursday Louise and I went to Slagelse, on Friday we left for Hungary, the morning and early afternoon of Saturday was spent strolling around in Dunaujvaros, at around four we watched the CL match between Dunaferr and Slagelse DT, and Sunday evening we arrived back home in Lyngby..
In a weeks time the spring semester begins - possibly my last semester before I get my M.Sc. :-) And I'm probably starting on a new job soon. So, stay tuned for further updates.
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Well, we have completed unpacking all our stuff and organizing our new apartment, which is GREAT. "It's a regular space - fest", so to speak.
On Friday I've got an exam in Knowledge, Firm and Market, based on a mini project co-written with Mads which we turned in last week. In the project, we combined the innovation theory of Boisot with the systems theory of Luhmann to explain and develop a framework for innovation in major companies.
In early February I'll start what will hopefully be the last semester of my M.Sc.BA.Phil. education :-) - two courses and my masters thesis is what I need to do for the next 6 months.
This journal (as well as my personal website) is rarely updated, for a number of reasons - firstly, I haven't got the time, and secondly (and more truthfully) I'm just not up for writing it these days.. So, expect infrequent updates. I won't quit it - I'll still stop by every now and then, if anything particularly interesting happens.
More frequent updates can be found at www.jamesboswell.info - which, of course, is not about me, just made by me :)
Happy new year, everybody
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The apartment is a mess - because tomorrow - WE ARE MOVING TO A BIGGER PLACE :-)
Dec. 2nd, 2005 @ 03:07 pm
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Yet another quick update: Today we signed the contract for our new apartment - we're moving into a nice 91m2 place, just about 1½ km from our present home, on December 1.
Tomorrow we are going to Malmö for a weekend break, staying at the Ramada Mayfair, if anybody need to get in touch with us ;-)
-Thomas
Oct. 13th, 2005 @ 10:55 pm
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| » Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
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Finally. A few minutes ago I finished by project Post and Late Modern Legitimacy Crises: Arla Foods Explored, which hopefully will complete two courses. That means that I just need 3 courses and my final Masters thesis to get my M.Sc. :-)
In an hour or so I'll go to Copenhagen to turn in the project, and at 17 Louise and I will go look at, what will probably be, our new apartment, about 80% larger than this one - that means I can finally get my own library ;-)
Oct. 3rd, 2005 @ 09:21 am
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I am studying - I am working - I have been sick for weeks - I play Everquest II - I read Boswell - I expand www.jamesboswell.info - I watch football - at this very moment I am making a Cornish Pasty.
Ask for further details - or wait for next update
Sep. 8th, 2005 @ 06:57 pm
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| » Back from Berlin |
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An otherwise excellent tour to Berlin and Potsdam was somewhat marred when, on our way home, about 50km north of Potsdam, we got the news, that a series of bombs had detonated in London some seven hours earlier. As some of you probably know, I have a soft spot for London, so naturally the news was particularly disturbing (apart from the fact that all acts of terrorism are awful).
It didn't destroy the overall joy of having spent 5 great days in and around the German capital. It was my 3rd time in Berlin, (4th if you count a short stop on my way to Warsaw in 1996) and 1st in Potsdam. We got up early and visited the German Bundestag (Parliament) on Tuesday, and had coffee in the fancy restaurant in the dome. When we got out, the queue was gigantic. We then visited the newly opened Holocaust-memorial next to Brandenburger Tor, although we didn't visit the underground museum on the site. Then we walked to Potsdamer Platz, where we had some lunch and then tried the fastest Elevator in Europe to reach the Panoramapunkt am Postdamer Platz - it took the elevator ca. 20 seconds to rise the 100m. The view was great too, of course.
Then the U-bahn to Mitte (near Checkpoint Charlie on Friedrichstrasse), and a walk up the road to Friedrichsstrasse S-bahn, strolling through Galeries Lafayette on the way. A train from Friedrichstrasse took us to Alexanderplatz, from where we walked to the Nikolaiviertel area, in which we dined. The weather was very poor at that time, so we had early dinner - the rain was still very poor when we had finished, and so, as we were rather tired as well, we took a bus back west towards our hotel, stopping at Potsdamerstrasse and Wittenbergplatz where we did some shopping. Then back to the hotel.
On Wedensday we spent the morning in KaDeWe, the drove out to Charlottenburg where we had lunch and visited the Bröhan-museum of industrial art and the impressive Charlottenburg park. Then we left Berlin and drove to Potsdam over Wannsee. Having rested for an hour or so at our hotel - the beautiful NH Voltaire in the historic center of the city - Louise and I took a Tram to the Central Station, and then walked back towards our hotel - just to see some of the city. At 20:30 we had dinner in the old restaurant Klosterkeller - it is somewhat touristy, but the food is great and the surroundings are very charming.
I'll write some more tomorrow - I am tired...
Jul. 8th, 2005 @ 09:36 pm
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Status from Berlin!
Long live the era of WiFi. This is an update from our Hotel Hamburg - in Berlin. We arrived well yesterday, after an 7 hour journey from Kgs. Lyngby. The weather was great, which is, of course, a problem when driving as it gets d***ed hot in the car, but we managed to get through without too much trouble. Our hotel - as viewed from the outside - was quite a disappointment, but when we got inside - and especially, when we entered our room - it more than made up for it..
We had some dinner at a resturant at Wittenberg Platz that evening, in the shadow of KaDeWe (which was closed, of course, it being Sunday and about 19:30). It was a nice outdoor place, but the service was fairly bad - we got our starters fairly quickly (after Berlin standards), but when we had finished them, we just waited, and waited, and waited, and after 35 minutes our waiter came and asked if we wanted to pay - it turned out they'd forgotten all about our main dishes. Well, we got our food and it was quite good, but it just doesn't do to forget an order in that way. Anyway, the place - Faustus, I think it was - seemed to have some decent speciality beer, and also some beer from Weihenstephan - the world's oldest brewery. And if you actually get your food, without waiting too long, it is probably quite a good place..
This morning we had a late breakfast at the hotel - it was lavish as always when staying at up-market Berlin hotels. The weather was *great* - about 30 degrees celcius for most of the day, and even about 25 in the evening. We walked around the famous Berlin Zoo for a few hours, then had lunch at the Bristol Kempinski café at the corner of Ku' Damm and Fasanenstrasse. Around 15 we walked down Fasenenstrasse and visited the legendary bookshop in the small garden of the Literary House. We then walked to the Berlin Story museum, in the Ku' damm Arkade, which is probably the closest thing to a city museum you'll find in Berlin. It is a great experience - very dramatic and a complete multimedia experience covering a period of about 800 years.
We caught a bus back to our hotel, relaxed for some time, and then embarked on a three hour boat trip of Berlin, beginning and ending at Cornelius Brücke, just 5 minutes walk from our hotel. It resembled a tour we took last year, but this time my mother was with us, of course, and the weather was - as I said - *great*. We have just arrived back at the hotel; tomorrow we'll start early at the Bundestag (or whatever - the parliament...). And then work our way thorough the more charming parts of former East Berlin - ie. Mitte and parts of Friedrichsstrasse.
Jul. 4th, 2005 @ 10:49 pm
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The past 10 days or so have been rather good. On Saturday June 18th, Lyngby BK was promoted to Division One after having played 0-0 against Brabrand. I was in Århus to watch the game, and in Lyngby to celebrate in the evening. The next few days were spent studying, so that I would be thoroughly prepared for my VIP exam on Wedensday - and the exam went very well indeed. I received a rather high grade, and couldn't be happier. The last 3-4 days I have relaxed for the first time in months. It is wonderful having done with the VIP project. Now I can relax for a few weeks, although I ought to be doing some light studying to prepare for my next major project which is due in August.
I'm also in the process of updating my James Boswell site, and on Sunday I'll be leaving for Berlin were I'm going to spend a few days with my girlfriend, as well as with my mother who also wanted to see the city. We're also staying for a night in Potsdam.
So the last week has been decent - bordering on great - and the next weeks look rather promising as well :-)
Jun. 27th, 2005 @ 12:26 am
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I've been working almost non stop on this d*** VIP-project for the past few weeks.. It is due in 48 hrs and 35 minutes. I'm really looking forward to that. I've no idea whether it'll be finished or okay by then, I just need to get it out of my system ;-)
I had a short break on monday when, following an excellent meeting with my project supervisor, I went to see the Lyngby-Taarbæk Philharmonic Orchestra perform at Christianskirken just 500m from where I live. They played Saint-Saëns 3rd Symphony, which I'd never heard before, but which was excellent, and Elgar's Enigma Variations, which I've never heard performed live before (although I've got three different recordings of them ;). All in all an excellent performance, masterfully directed by Morten Ryelund.
Now it's back to the books and the writing. Wish me luck :)
Jun. 8th, 2005 @ 11:21 am
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| » The absurdity of British politics |
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In many ways I quite like the British political system. The first-past-the-post constituency system secures local representation in the parliament, which I find is most important. If a local area is not represented in parliament, then parliament can not legitimately take any decisions on behalf of (or affecting) that local area.
However, the system does lead to some awkward results - at the recent UK General Election, Labour received just about 36-37% of the total votes - but they've got more than 60% of the seats in parliament. And when they won, the Labour candidates all talked about having received a new mandate from the British people, who confirmed that Labour was the way they wanted to go - despite almost two thirds of all votes going to other parties. Labour aren't even close to having a majority of votes, and still they talk as if the British people in it's entirety has supported Labour... Actually, they have done nothing of the sort - and it is surprising that supposedly intelligent Labour MPs don't see that.. Anyway, Tony Blair tells the British people that he has learned from his mistakes.. Let's see about that, shall we?
May. 7th, 2005 @ 01:51 pm
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Done:
* Made the journey all the way to Aarhus(!) to watch my old pal Jakob receive his Ph.D.! Congrats, Jakob - and what a great party! :-)
* Updated my website James Boswell - a Guide, so that it now include bios of virtually all people mentioned in his London Journal 1762-1763.
* Written three pages of my Advanced Integrated Project..... So the project itself is actually only about 1/14th done :-(
* Begun reading Wilde's The Pictures of Dorian Gray, which I've never done before...
About to:
* Watch Election Night on Sky News - although Labour looks like a safe bet tonight, it'll still be interesting to follow the individual constituencies.
* Write the last 13/14ths of my AIP.
* Doing just about nothing else for the next month or so, because I have to do the AIP plus one equally time-consuming project before July 1..
May. 5th, 2005 @ 06:22 pm
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Rowan Atkinson's master series Blackadder will return for a fifth series, BBC reports! Most of us were pretty sure that the Millenium Special (Back and Forth) were the final one for sure, but it seems that we were wrong. Looking forward to watching Rowan in his greatest part once more.
Apr. 20th, 2005 @ 11:10 am
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I got myself a new toy yesterday - a HP iPAQ Hx2410 - a PDA, that is. A wonderful, small handheld computer that can do just about everything that you could reasonably expect from a computer the size and weight of a mobile phone. Hopefully it'll increase my productivity. There isn't much room for relaxation or fun in the next two months, due to three exam papers totalling about 100 pages of hardcore theory...
First project is an essay on the hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer... So that's what I'll be doing for the next week or two.. Apart from going to Århus on 29/4 to watch my old pal Jakob defend his Ph.D.-dissertation.
-Thomas
Apr. 20th, 2005 @ 09:03 am
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| » Back again |
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We arrived back home from our trip to Dunaujvaros on monday evening. The trip was great - the city was not all that interesting, but fairly harmonic and with a great view over the Danube and the Puszta. The Handball match, which was the reason why we drove 2x20 hours for a 12 hour stay, was won by our team, Slagelse FH/DT. The atmopshere in the hall itself was great - thanks goes to the local Dunaferr fans, and the waitresses who served for us at the Corner Cafe - very nice people, indeed. I'll probably upload a few pics at my LJ gallery one of these days.
Apr. 13th, 2005 @ 11:11 am
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| » And were off |
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Having spent a Great night at hotel Frederik II in Slagelse, we have just Left the city headed for Dunaujvaros south of Budapest. The sun is Shining and all is well.
Apr. 9th, 2005 @ 09:10 am
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In a few hours we are leaving for Slagelse, from where a bus will depart tomorrow morning, bringing us to the Hungarian city of Dunaujvaros. We'll be back on Monday. I may update the log via my mobile phone a few times during the next few days.
Apr. 8th, 2005 @ 01:58 pm
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