Archive for June, 2006

06-24-2006

Thank God for wire-less Internet

I have just installed wire-less Internet at home and I have to say that it’s amazing. I’m outside in the fantastic swedish summer sun writing this :D I can’t imagine how I could survive without this before…. :D

The game between Germany and Sweden today (in a little bit more then an hour) is going to be really interesting. I really hope Sweden will beat Germany, but the odds for that are against Sweden :(

Argentina vs Mexico later today will be rally interesting. Mostly because I have bet some money on Argentina :D I usually don’t bet, but I like the odds for this game (Argentina 1.40 — Mexico 7.00 at Ladbrokes).

If you live in Sweden you can get 500 swedish crowns to bet for at Unibet. Read more about that here.

Posted by bylla in English, Fun, Internet, World Cup | No Comments »

06-23-2006

Watch out for the dollar!

According to five scandinavian banks the dollar (USD) will get weaker against the swedish crown (SEK) in the next 12 months. In the end of December 2005 a dollar costs about 8 swedish crowns, but now you get a dollar for as low as 7,22 crowns!

Bank 3 months 6 months 12 months
Danske Bank 7,08 6,79 6,79
Föreningssparbanken 6,97 6,88 6,74
Handelsbanken 7,05 6,80 7,00
Nordea 7,11 7,08 7,00
SEB 7,50 7,50 6,80

A cheaper dollar will simply mean that scandinavians will see their US investments decrease in value :(

Posted by bylla in Currency, Economics, English | 1 Comment »

06-21-2006

Bojkotta TV4!

Enligt Aftonbladet sÃ¥ har TV4 stängt av meterologen Tone Bekkestad för att hon har poserat i Slitz (hon blev utnämnd till Sveriges sexigaste kvinna). Det är ju fruktansvärt hur TV4 gör, att stänga av en av de populäraste personerna de har i rutan kan ju inte precis bättra pÃ¥ tittarsiffrorna. Jag föreslÃ¥r total bojkott av alla program pÃ¥ TV4 samt sätter en stark säljrekommendation pÃ¥ TV4-aktierna. Det är inte bara Tone av TV4-personalen i rutan som har vikit ut sig utan även Suzanne Sjögren (kommenterar fotbolls-VM just nu) och Ulrika Nilsson (nyhetsankare). TV4 kör alltsÃ¥ med dubbelmoral :( …. nÃ¥got som en seriös nyhetskanal bör akta sig för.

Att Tone har blivit så populär är inte endast på grund av hennes utseende utan även för att hon har humor och är smart (även välutbildad).

Vill du ha Tone tillbaka i TV-rutan, då ska du skicka ett mail till Kinna Bellander och Göran Ellung på TV4.

Vill du läsa mer rekommenderar jag Tone stängs av på Aftonbladet.se.

Posted by bylla in Svenska | No Comments »

06-21-2006

Sweden Rules!

I heard someone say that Sweden hasn’t lost in football against England for 38 years(!!) and yesterday wasn’t any different :-) . The game yesterday ended in 2-2, which is enough for Sweden to still be in World-Cup!!! Fantastic job boys!

Posted by blogmail in English, World Cup | No Comments »

06-19-2006

Sweden’s goal to be oil independent

To make sure Sweden will be oil independent Prime Minister Göran Persson appointed an expert council called The Commission on Oil Independence in December 2005. This summer the Commission will present actions necessary to achive the new goal. :D

However two of the Commission members (Göran Persson and Leif Johansson, from Volvo) do not agree with each other and it looks like the results will be delayed….. :( According to the Commission the oil consumption should decrease by 40% in Sweden till year 2020, but Leif Johansson think that kind of goal will hit the Swedish companies too hard. Johansson and Persson are also disputing on what kind of new energy sources Sweden should use instead of oil.

Lets hope they can find a solution before the end of this summer…

Posted by bylla in Energy, English, Oil | No Comments »

06-18-2006

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Posted by bylla in Erbjudanden, Svenska | No Comments »

06-17-2006

Odds

On Tuesday it’s going to be really exiting…. Sweden will play against England and Trinidad & Tobago against Paraguay. I had a quick look at Ladbrokes web site to check the odds for both games.

Match Win Draw Win
England vs Sweden 2.10 2.80 3.50
Paraguay vs Trinidad 1.72 3.50 3.75

According to the odds it looks like Paraguay and England will be the winners on Tuesday :( . Sweden need at least Draw to still be in the game, but the odds for that is 2.8!

I think a will bet on Paraguay :?

Posted by bylla in English, World Cup | No Comments »

06-16-2006

Mystery Inc & Universial Studios

I promissed you some pictures from my vacation to Florida and here they are :) Me and Mystery Inc. Photo: Fredrik Bylund

Here’s a picture of me and two members of the Mystery Inc: Shaggy and Scooby-Doo :D Cool isn’t it? This picture was taken by my brother Fredrik at Universial Studios in Orlando.

Andreas & Universial Studios logo. Photo: Fredrik BylundMy brother also took the picture of me in front of the Universial Studios logo (you know the famous globe with “UNIVERSIAL STUDIOS” rotating around it).

Sky scraper in Miami. Photo: Fredrik BylundLast hurricane season was hard in Florida and a lot of dammage had not been repaired before this hurricane season as you can see on this picture. Many of the down town sky scrapers still missed a few windows… I just hope that Alberto will stay away from Florida.

Alligator from Everglades. Photo: AndreasBylund.comAlligators are always funny. As long as they are not hungry that is :D. This alligator is only 2-3 years old and was less than a meter from me…. :)

If you would like to see larger pictures you can click on the thumbnails.

Posted by bylla in English, Florida, Fun | No Comments »

06-16-2006

Two stocks you should know about

SanDisk 1Gb. Photo: AndreasBylund.comUBS has upgraded both Sandisk (NasdaqNM:SNDK) and NVidia (NasdaqNM:NVDA) from Neutral to Buy.  

Posted by bylla in English, Stock Market | No Comments »

06-16-2006

Oil price over $70 a barrel

The oil price went above $70 a barrel earlier today after worries over a package of incentives offered by the West for Iran to give up uranium enrichment.

Posted by bylla in English, Oil | No Comments »