Over the last month I have been in Palo Alto, Amsterdam and Tallinn. And soon I will leave on a long trip where Cambridge, Massachusetts, is my first stop. There are lots of things to do before leaving, but I am looking forward to going away for a bit. I will meet interesting people, do [...]

you are on a tight schedule when the hotel staff on you ordering a taxi for the morning looks at you very compassionately. And yes, the taxi will pick me up at 4:45 in the morning.
I had a good conference day here in Tallinn and I have made a number of contacts and there are [...]

It is nice to be back. Fall colors, crisp air, and still not really cold. I had a reasonably productive day today and I hope to do some emailing concerned my upcoming November trip this evening as well as some seminar planning. I have a feeling I will not get too much time for my own [...]

I have had a couple of good and intensive days at Stanford doing project work. I have met a great many really interesting people and made some new contacts. I still have some time left here and I think this will be more low-density time. I have a few meetings but not too many.
When getting back to Umeå on Friday [...]

I bought two new books yesterday: Database Aesthetics: Art in the age of information overflow (ed. Victoria Vesna) and Performative Science and Beyond: Involving the Process in Research (Hans H. Diebner).