For a rather long time I have not taken proper care of my personal book collection. I do not mind a bit of disorder – not at all – but this was more on a structural and far-reaching level. I needed to do some restructuring and make better use of available space. My study is [...]

I have just come back from a long day at work. I had a very good (2,5 hours) conversation with my number one manuscript reader and commentator. She will send a commented full manuscript soon and on the phone we discussed some key issues.
After lunch the tech guy assigned to fix my computer called me. [...]

My office computer still does not work. I am waiting for the Dell people to turn up. In the meantime I have received some interesting mail. It turns out that my landlord (a big city council affiliated company) have decided to change the cable tv setup. As a consequence I will not be able to [...]

I knew that something was wrong. I could not connect to my office computer yesteday evening from home. Had someone disconnected and stolen it? Major crash? When I went to work this morning it was switched on but there was no monitor image. I switched it off when and when trying to reboot it would [...]

For as long as I can remember (almost) I have been a runner. Some years I end up doing almost no running but this does not make me a non-runner. Whenever there is a sunny day I feel the urge to go out jogging and while there are many excuses and resons for not doing [...]

I am very excited about upcoming seminars in the Fall. The seminar schdule has not been finalized (at all) but we have amazing people such as Katherine Hayles and David Theo Goldberg signed up (among others).

I have spent the last couple of days working on my IT and language learning book manuscript (a long-term project as I am sure readers of this blog know). It has been very hot here (for Northern Scandinavia) and it has been difficult to be really productive. But maybe it is not the heat but [...]

There are quite a few good online sites for finding excellent streamed material. MIT World is such a site. It provides free access to video of some significant public events at MIT. Many of the lectures seem to be ones for parents or people being shown MIT etc. Tonight I listened to William J. Mitchell [...]

For a rather long time now I have had a very large box in a walk-in closet. I am trying to get a bit more organized and as a result of this organizational drift I found myself looking through the aforementioned box tonight. I spent about 2,5 hours doing this and music from In the [...]