It is a warm and humid day in San Diego and after the summer institute ended after lunch I have taken it easy. I found some books in the bookshop and I have spent an hour in a café doing emailing. I will write more about today’s cyberinfrastructure activities later. Among other things there was [...]

When I read the free morning Berkeley paper in Berkeley the other day there was an article about a new Peet’s Coffee on Telegraph. The author discussed the problems for business owners on Telegraph Avenue and how there are some 35 vacant shops. Among those is, sadly, Cody’s. Cody’s was a great bookshop that was [...]

Today’s book purchases:
Jerome McGann: The Scholar’s Art. Literary studies in a managed world
Alexander Galloway: Gaming. Essays on Algorithmic Culture
Diane Carr et al: Computer games. Text, narrative and play
I also spotted Jerome Feldman’s new book on molecules and metaphors on the way out. He co-taught one of the classes I took when I was in Berkeley [...]

I am presently on a Stockholm-Chicago flight. This is probably the third or fourth time I have been online during an intercontinental flight. It works really well. Of course you might question the necessity of being online inflight but this time it has been very useful. I have been invited to give a talk at [...]

I am currently writing a passage on humanities computing and text encoding. A topic more interesting than you might think. Text encoding is very basic to humanities computing and while TEI (the Text Encoding Initiative) is often described as the most important achievement in that tradition it is also interesting to note the discussion about [...]

A couple of years ago Sandy Stone and Samantha Krukowski from ACTlab at Austin visited Umeå (a visit mainly organized by Tools for Creativity, the Interactive Institute Studio). In 2001 I went to Austin, gave a presentation at the Actlab and spent a few days there. It was a very good visit and I [...]

In a few days I will leave for this year’s third trip to the US. This time I will mainly spend time in Southern California. The main reason for the trip is the Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute at University of California at San Diego. I will do a presentation there on “Bringing cyberinfrastructures together: Studio spaces, [...]

Looking for high-resolution wallpaper/desktop images I found InterfaceLIFT which is quite good. I was interested in finding 2560×1600 pictures and they have quite a few.
After all the trouble with my desktop computer Dell has now sent me a new one (same type although a little bit better) and I have upgraded it (new, *big* [...]