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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]