I learnt a great deal about Stanford outreach activities and especially K-12 connections this morning. On my way back to one of my main points of reference (the bookshop) I took a few photos:

This afternoon I will meet some teacher education faculty as well as other colleagues. Among other things, I hope to get to [...]

Umeå University’s vice-chancellor has started to blog. There is also an interview with him in today’s VK.
- Det är bara kungen och jag som är medlem i tre kungliga vetenskapsakademier. Det kan ingen ta från mig och det väger jävligt tungt i den här världen ska du veta.
I have seen a few other vice-chancellor [...]

I am spending the morning doing a fair amount of emailing. I will spend most of the day at Stanford meeting with people and later this week I will go back to Sweden and Umeå. I am looking forward to going back even if I have not been able to do everything I had set [...]

Yesterday I found out that Axess (Swedish journal) did a special issue on the “two cultures” (reference to Snow) earlier this year and I have now had a quick look at the articles and will come back to them. The issue can be found here. There seems a concensus that the the two need each [...]

I just had a browse-through look at Peter Ekdahl’s recent Ph.D. thesis: “Medieteknik i en senmodern tid – digital teknik, estetik och gestaltning” (BTH, pdf in Swedish available from here). It is an interesting and well-written analysis of the intersection of engineering/technology and aesthetics, and a report of a what seems to be a rather [...]

I have just finished reading “Some Reflections on Studies in Humanities Computing” (Literary and Linguistic Computing, 17, 1, 2002) by Koenraad de Smedt. One of the things I am interested in is getting a sense of sense of the development of field and fortunately, in the case of humanities computing, there has been a great [...]

Working on my article on the humanities and information technology I have been interested in looking at early issues of the journal Computers and the Humanities (first issue in 1966). At first I tried online sources and found issues from 1997 onwards. I am mostly interested in tables of contents (and not necessarily the articles [...]

the UC Berkeley Police have their own bomb unit truck (and bomb search dog it seemed).

I could not find a seat at the outdoor caf̩ Strada this afternoon when I tried. But when waiting for my drink I counted laptops (something I do occasionally Рlast time at UC Irvine Рand here is a 2004 observation).
More and more laptops – I have seen this tendency at my own university [...]

Having read about the Notebook Hardware Control program on the wonderful thinkpads.com support community forum I have tried it for a couple of days now. The point of it all is to maximize battery life and to have as much control as possible. This tool allows you to have processor speed control, check temperature, control [...]