{"id":72,"date":"2007-01-17T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2007\/01\/oslo-snow-and-schedules\/"},"modified":"2007-01-17T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T07:43:00","slug":"oslo-snow-and-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2007\/01\/oslo-snow-and-schedules\/","title":{"rendered":">Oslo, snow and schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>I was invited ny Trolltech to come to Oslo and have dinner with the Qt Quarterly contributors from 2006. Yes, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.trolltech.com\/qq\/qq18-mousegestures.html\">contributed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to be in Oslo by 6pm last Thursday so I left Gothenburg just after 1pm. It usually takes 3-4 hours to drive between Oslo and Gothenburg, but there has recently been a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Part_of_major_road_in_Sweden_collapses_in_landslide\">landslide<\/a>, so you have to go around a part of the E6 road that was swept away. That was why I added an hour to my travel plans. Then came the snow.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/uploaded_images\/winterroad-762511.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/uploaded_images\/winterroad-760280.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Apparently most lorrys do not use proper tires adapted for snow. Nor do they keep snow chains. The consequence was that I spent six and a haft hours to travel 400km. When approaching Oslo there where queues in both directions moving at about 10-20kph.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/uploaded_images\/queues-740932.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/uploaded_images\/queues-733516.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I made it anyway &#8211; the dinner did not start before 7pm and I had to be efficient when checking in to the hotel. After getting some food and a beer I could relax and be social again. I got the opportunity to sit down and talk to David Boddie and Jasmin Blanchette (hi guys!).<br \/>I also ran into a whole bunch of trolls (I only remember half of the names, so I won&#8217;t mention any). After a nice evening at Akers Brygge I left for the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning I spent in more or less informal meetings at Trolltech. Very giving. The trolls are really a nice bunch of people. Very easy to work with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>I was invited ny Trolltech to come to Oslo and have dinner with the Qt Quarterly contributors from 2006. Yes, I&#8217;ve contributed. The goal was to be in Oslo by 6pm last Thursday so I left Gothenburg just after 1pm. It usually takes 3-4 hours to drive between Oslo and Gothenburg, but there has recently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/2007\/01\/oslo-snow-and-schedules\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">>Oslo, snow and schedules<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelins.se\/johan\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}