Article in Swedish available from here.

I am just listening to a Larry Smarr talk I partly missed in San Diego a few weeks ago. He mentioned the Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch. Their blog informs us about the NSD budget allocation for 2007. The cyberinfrastructure office is going to get about $600 million (a 15 % increase).

Today I was late for my traditional Sunday evening café session. Only an hour until closing time. I chose not to buy internet access for that time as the only option is a 24-hour card. After 15 minutes without access I gave up and purchased an internet access card. At present I am using up [...]

Patrik Svensson: “Stepping Up: Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences”
In the US, research infrastructure has become cyberinfrastructure and in Europe, there is a substantial interest in e-science and research infrastructure. In Sweden, there is a new national committee for research infrastructures. On the whole there is a great deal of strategic work going on [...]

I try to walk to work every day. It is good exercise and I quite enjoy it. I usually set out quite early in the morning. This morning I met two interesting people on the way and had discussions about a blog opera project as well as HUMlab’s interaction with the sociology department even before [...]

I need to talk to my favorite café in Umeå about the size of their double/large cappuccinos. I want the kind you often get in US: two shots of espresso and twice as much milk as in a single cappuccino. When I talked to someone their last time she replied “So you want a latte?”. [...]

I am a big Infocom text adventure fan and part of my growing up was about playing games such us Spellbreaker and Planetfall. Here is an article about the company Infocom in the new Escapist.
(via Infocult)