Category: Swimmer’s Daily
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That new Hadouken meme is Fun
Just saying, wouldn’t mind seeing this Hadouken thing grow into a meme in swimming too ;-) Here my crazy family trying out Jákup’s jedi powers this morning. … and …
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Woohoo, a mention in the New Yorker (!)
Awesome find by Bartal, from August 2012 … Until he set that record, Sun had flown under the radar. He shouldn’t have—his time from the meet in Australia was a sign he’d dominate in London. But swimming news is hard to come by. I read about Sun’s feat on Swimmer’s Daily, a blog run by two…
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Happy New Year !
A special greeting to those of you over in New Zealand and beyond, who are already well into 2013. Next year will be exciting, I’m sure!
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I created a Google+ Community called “Swimming” today
Yesterday, Google launched a new feature called Communities on Google+, that might be a game changer. So today I got to create a Community called Swimming, you are very welcome to try it out with me. First plan is to throw a whole lot of photos up on the Istanbul 2012 – 11th FINA World…
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Close call tonight
I’ve been enjoying the ‘WordPress White Screen of Death‘ tonight, which could have meant that I would have to recreate the entire site, maybe even with difficulties salvaging content off the old one. But thanks to Dan & Ben at Dreamhost, it seems to work OK again. Phew … now for some backup routines!
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Company excursion yesterday
Sorry for not posting anything yesterday, was out on a boat trip before trying to juggle a company dinner with our swimming federation congress and my younger daughter performing music. Weather was nice, which is when these islands beat everything :-)
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Sorry about the slow day yesterday
We had our younger daughter Annika’s confirmation in a house without internet, which was just as well with all the things going on in swimming at the moment. Slowly getting back into speed, and already this Thursday, we’ll have this big thing here in the Faroes called the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching.…
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Moving into a nice neighborhood :-)
Last week this site was included in the new Swimming World RSS feed aggregator entitled “Swimming Around the World, Posts from the Swimming Community”, right on the home page of SwimmingWorld.com. Pretty humbled here, especially when seeing we’re mentioned among great sites like GoSwim, SwimNews, Texas Swimming, SCAQ Blog and Speed Endurance Swimming.
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Delayed news from Pál’s 1500 freestyle here today
Our dear grandmother passed away on Thursday, so me and Bartal will be at the chapel this afternoon. But there are all kinds of possibilities to follow the Danish Trials, by showing up at Bellahøj (admission is free), or watching the live stream from 15:00 UTC, or checking up on the results for instance on…