Archive for April, 2006

book covers

What is outside is not unimportant. Particularly not book covers. I remember telling people that the cover is as important as the introduction, bibliography and party when I was finishing up my Ph.D. thesis. Well, of course the content is very important too, but that is a given. And, face it, most theses are read [...]

plane skype

I just had a skype conversation with someone – chat and audio – and it worked surprisingly well. No detectable lag and good voice quality (more or less like from my office). Impressive. I head ear phones and I talked in a low voice. I do not think I disturbed anyone.

on my way

After running really late I actually managed to get onto the plan to Stockholm this morning. Every minute *is* important.
I am presently somewhere off the Norwegian coast heading towards Chicago. I have tried intercontinental flight internet earlier but this some it seems a bit more reliable. The connection speed still varies a bit and the [...]

Off to the US again

Tomorrow morning I will embark on a relatively long trip – all the way to Los Angeles and later Irvine. I will blog more about about my last trip on this trip. And hopefully I will be able to tell you some of the things I will be doing at Irvine and in San Diego. [...]

on the frontpage

It is recruitment time in Sweden. Students have to select courses by April 18 and reaching out to students is becoming more and more important. We used to have a few, old universities and a few young universities (like Umeå which had its 40th birthday recently). There has been an explosion of new universities and [...]

back home

It is nice to be back in Umeå. After 2,5 weeks in the US I will spend 1,5 weeks in Umeå before going back to the US again for a relatively short consortium meeting stay.
I had a good time in the US – mainly spending time in the East Bay (Berkeley and Stanford). I [...]