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If you follow international politics you most likely know who Carl Bildt is. You may even have read his blog before, Bildt Comments. Now that he was chosen to be the foreign minister on the recently elected government of Sweden, he started a new blog, and this time in Swedish – Alla dessa dagar.

Carl Bildt is what we would call a technophile. And he contrasts abruptly with his three predecessors, none of which even had a computer in their office. According to this report, someone in the public office managed to get hold of a computer, but Carl Bildt had to install it himself.

It begs belief that in this day and age, and in a such a developed country, three foreign ministers in a row never felt the need to a have a computer in their offices. Had you been living here for a few years and keeping abreast of the machinations of politics, you wouldn’t be so surprised, though. Out here quite a few people in position of power seemed to be living under a rock. Auspiciously, things are looking up now. We will even be able to visit the Swedish embassy in Second Life, according to reports. If you care for those sort of things, that is.

Swedish government, welcome to modernity. It’s about time.