Me one, five and ten years ago
To be hit by a meme is usually quite entertaining, and I like the nostalgic feel of the latest one. First Faruk got me and then Jonathan Snook took a stab so I have nothing else to do but abide and share some parts of my history.
One year ago
Just a little over a year ago I wasn’t entirely pleased with my employer, so out of boredom/curiosity I started this blog. It was then on Blogger and in Swedish. When I signed up I had to choose a name for it, and in a panicky fashion I choose the corny name “Roberts prat” (which loosely translates to Robert’s talk), and it just stuck around. After a few weeks I realized that I knew a number of English-speaking people who would be interested in reading too, plus the fact that it would make it easier to reach out, so I translated the posts I had written so far into English.
April 11th last year, I launched this domain and presented the blog now migrated to WordPress, a move that I don’t regret.
My wonderful daughter Emilia was about 8 months old then.
Five years ago
I had fairly recently gotten back from my New York stint and been working for some months for a company called iBizkit. Very valuable lessons were learned and I left the company to travel around the world 
in 2002.
I was also (finally) living within Stockholm city, in the great Södermalm part, together with Fredrika. I was also working out a lot of the time.
Ten years ago
Ten years ago it was still seven months till I would purchase my first computer. I had moved away from home to my own apartment located in the area of Mariehäll in Bromma, 43 square meters/51.4 square yards consisting of one room and a kitchen.
I was working for UPS and had just been internally promoted to dealing with their key accounts in the terms of billing and any accounting queries they might have. I left this job at the end of 1997 to travel around in Australia for a couple of months.
Who’s next?
I had to do some serious pondering when it came to this. I wanted to choose persons that don’t normally get memes, to give them a chance. So, therefore, I proudly pass it on to Carl Camera, Stuart Colville and Shane Shepherd.
10 Comments/Reactions
April 19th, 2006 at 10:32
Interesting stuff! Didn’t know you worked for UPS, heh.
That picture of your daughter is precious.
April 19th, 2006 at 12:50
Whoa – we were actually
neighbours ten years ago? I had *no* idea
April 19th, 2006 at 17:16
Faruk,
Yeah, you never really know someone, apparently..
Jarvklo,
Oh my, that was scary!
April 19th, 2006 at 22:12
Hehe, funny name on your first blog, if translated into english:
Robert’s prat
Robert’s http://www.tfd.com/prat
April 20th, 2006 at 8:54
Henrik,
Yeah, it would’ve been pretty bad (but maybe more accurate?)…
April 20th, 2006 at 13:31
Interesting, Robert. UPS wasted your talents on account management? You could have been zooming around Bromma in shorts with dark socks.
Thanks for the opportunity to share. I’ve posted my reply meme. Now you can make light of my past…
April 20th, 2006 at 13:37
Carl,
Cool, thanks!
And if it sounded condescending that you guys don’t get memes, I’m really sorry about that. What I meant was that I haven’t seen any of you ever post a reply to a meme, that’s all.
April 20th, 2006 at 15:28
Robert. Not a problem. No harm no foul.
April 20th, 2006 at 16:12
Carl,
Good.
April 21st, 2006 at 5:45
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