Saturday morning I drove lovely truna to the airport. She has been a wonderful guest. Look here for film clip from trip the coast on Saturday – truna learning to walk on ice. I guess she might be in Singapore about now – swimming in the open-air pool.
After truna leaving I have done the following:
finished [...]

For some reason there is often a lot of energy in the HUMlab on Friday afternoons. I took some pictures today (about 4:30 pm I think). In the topmost one, Jim is having a meeting with Don Bosco from Singapore (author of cybertext Fast City) in one of our Atmosphere virtual worlds. We are planning [...]

I have a huge email archive from 1995 onwards. Mind you, the 1995 folder only contains 195 emails (but I have become better and better at saving emails). For some years now I have also saved all outgoing email regardless of from where I sent it. In total I probably have a bit more than [...]

I am sitting in the lab working on book chapter and conference paper (as well as some other things). At the same time there is a workshop going on in the lab – “Digital environment design for educators”.

Judging from the laughter and activity from the inner lab room things are going well. The door to [...]

I have been following the gay marriage debate in San Francisco with some interest. When I was in California last – driving south on the interstate – I listened to the inauguration of the new governor. I am not terribly impressed with his arguments for wanting to stop marriages of the same sex:
In San Francisco, [...]

I noticed that some people I know have started to blog maps which show where they have been. I started doing one for the US – I think I have been to about 15 states by now – and started to remember. Or rather not remember – because I couldn’t quite remember the name of [...]

Today truna came to Ume

Here is a screenshot from on-going Atmosphere activity.

Here I am flying – looking down at the main pavillion of the world.

In about 50 minutes we are going to “screen” a new virtual world. We have created it for a national network for language learning and information technology but will also use it for HUMlab later. It is a very nice piece of work.

It is an Adobe Atmosphere world and it can be accessed through a [...]

Yesterday I played Zork and the Hobbit in front of an audience of history students. Maybe I am hopelessly nostalgic but I really like these games. This summer I am going to give a talk on “Iconic and symbolic representation in virtual worlds” and one of the things I am interested in is the role [...]