Michael Carøe Andersen

Tag: blog

  • 1 year in Prague

    Sunset over Belohorska
    I just realized that 1st of June it has been a year since I arrived in Prague. Time flies and I must say I have been positively surprised by many things about this city and the people I have met here. One thing that is very appalling is my Czech though. When I came I thought I would take language courses and learn some of the local lingo, but I must admit I gave up on that pretty quickly and have resorted to my English, German, a few Czech words and the international language of hand gestures and body language.

    Last week I met with a fellow blogger, Al from the family blog Tischlers in Prague. After having lived in Prague for almost two years the Tischlers are moving back to Minnesota. I have been following the blog and their trips in and around Prague (and around Europe) since before I arrived in Prague so it was great to meet the man behind the words. Al has been working for Radio Free Europe in Prague while they have been building their new headquarters. He had great stories of his time in Saudi Arabia their life in Prague and filled me in on the New Wave music in general after we went to a museum on the history of the rock music in Czechoslovakia in the 80ies.

    We met in a small beer garden very close to our apartment for a couple of beers. Al got photo documentation and posted it here. Its always a pleasure to meet other bloggers and Im glad I caught Al before they went back home. I wish the best for the three of them.


  • Happy B-day to Blogging.Gelle.dk

    24th of April 2005 – 3 years ago – I started blogging here. Back then I started blogging and did it in Danish because I was going to do an internship in US for one year and wanted an easy way to keep a travel journey and keep friends and family updated. About August 2006 I switched to English since I was moving back to Denmark and I decided to leave it at that. Check the archive if you want to see previous posts.

    Blogging Gelle stats

    I have made 207 posts so thats 1.3 post per week. My stats only go back to 15th November 2005 but since then the site has had 29,323 visits. 10,810 of these were on the post about running a company using free office products online. It ended up on the frontpage of digg.com and sent my server to its knees. Apart from that spike I average about 20-30 visits per day – which I am very satisfied with :)

    Photo-op

    I started using Flickr at the same time. Above is the first picture there which is from my graduation from Aalborg University June 2005. Since then I have uploaded 5,226 pictures or 33.5 picture per week. My most viewed picture on Flickr is the guy with the grillz. My most interestingnessed picture is a panorama of the Big House in Ann Arbor.

    Panorama shot Michigan Stadium
    (check out the original)

    Update 29th: Ulrik just pointed me towards this nifty timeline tool :)


  • Blog status [dk]

    Nu kan man aldrig vide sig sikker, men jeg tror dette bliver mit sidste indlæg på dansk på siden her.

    Jeg startede blogging.gelle.dk for at fortælle folk i Danmark om mine oplevelser under mit ophold i USA. Det er blevet til 50-60 indlæg (findes i arkivet fra juli 2005 til juni 2006), som jeg selv synes er meget sjove at kigge igennem her bagefter. Det var et meget intenst år og oplevelserne var mange, så bloggen her har været en god måde at få nedfældet nogle af de mange ting jeg har oplevet, og det har været fedt at få respons fra folk undervejs. Jeg har altid skrevet rejsedagbog når jeg har rejst, men med en weblog er der pludselig et (imaginært) publikum og fortællerglæden har været så meget større.

    Nu er jeg for længst kommet tilbage til Dannevang og der skal noget andet til her på bloggen. Så for det første kommer bliver det på engelsk i stedet – jeg vil se om jeg kan holde kontakten til de mange folk jeg har mødt på min tur, og det her bliver en af måderne.

    Temaet bliver fremover noget i stil med, hvordan det er at være en jyderøv i København, som prøver at starte it-firma med en kammerat fra Nordirland og de oplevelser, der kommer ud af det. Jeg er sikker på at det bliver spændende, jeg er lidt mere i tvivl om jeg har tiden (og måske lysten) til at skrive om det, men nu må vi se.

    Derudover håber jeg, jeg har energi og tid til at lave flere videoindlæg. Jeg synes det er rigtig sjovt at lave, men det tager mig bare stadig lang tid at få det redigeret.

    Tak til dem som fulgte mig på min rejse i USA. Og velkommen til dem som vil følge mig fremover :)