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  • Close call tonight

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    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!

  • Company excursion yesterday

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    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 :-)

  • Sorry about the slow day yesterday

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    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.…

  • Moving into a nice neighborhood :-)

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    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.

  • Delayed news from Pál’s 1500 freestyle here today

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    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…

  • Yippee, my first story in Bulgarian media

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    So yesterday I got in contact with Dr. Ivan Tsanov, Secretary General of the Association of the Bulgarian swimmers and Editor-in-Chief of the number one Bulgarian website about swimming, www.bgswim.info with about 15000 daily visits. He asked me about Faroese swimming, and has now been so kind to translate my somewhat hurried response and put…

  • Sorry about the site being so slow these days

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    It was running fine with way heavier traffic two weeks ago, and then it went to a crawl this week. I contacted my web host when it died totally on Friday, it came up again, and now, well, now we’ll just see if it ever gets up to speed again. If not, then it is…

  • Time to nominate your favorite swimming blog

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    The annual About Swimming Readers’ Choice Awards is on, including categories ‘swimsuits’, ‘goggles’, ‘handpaddles’, ‘training fins’, ‘on-line or brick and mortar swim shops’, ‘swimming twitter feed’ and (most important) ‘swimming blog’. You can nominate your swimming favorites from January 18th through February 15th, vote from February 22nd though March 21st, and then see the winners…

  • Our top ten stories from 2011

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    2011 has been a fun year here on Swimmer’s Daily, with increasing visit numbers since the sort-of-relaunch in March. Site focus is as the motto says ‘a fast fix blog about swimming’, that hopefully can provide readers with short bursts of fun and/or interesting swim-related content, as a break for instance between tedious training. Preferably…