Gone beta

Hello everyone.

Sorry for the long absence and for the changes in the blog, but Blogger has a new version and there was no way I could updated just some of the blogs. The final result is that Gotlanders is now on Blogger Beta. Your profiles have all been updated and you should be able to access your accounts by loging on the Blogger homepage with your gmail address and password. Let me know if you're having any trouble.

As for the changes in the blog itself, well Beta doesn't add much that we use very often. It basically makes the configuration of the blog page much easier and adds a tag system to every post, thus listing them by keywords. It's very useful if you have a big blog with hundreds of posts, but not so much if it's a small one like ours. Still, you'll notice that at the bottom of the screen where you write the posts there should be room for the label, so use it if you wish to.

As for me, things are going slowly and a bit offline, with more time spent reading and writing. The phd project seems to be moving on, though very very slowly. A Literature professor suggested the inclusion of an analysis of all the written sources and translations of the Norse ones so that at least some of them can then be published in Portuguese. This means the phd will probably include a several months long Old Norse course in Uppsala, adding to the already likely trips and field work in Galicia and Northern Portugal.

The rest of my time off I've been spending getting things ready for Christmas and the New Year celebration or, if the weather allows it, riding my bike, alone or with my father. He took me on a three hours and a half ride last Sunday morning! Gods know how tired I arrived home that day...