Month: April 2004

gems

Some of the students’ blog reviews contain pearls. Catherina, for instance, writes about a personal diary mostly dealing with depression, and notes that the blog only has one category: livet mitt, my life. At first I thought she meant this metaphorically, but […]

blogging homelessness gets press and home

So a student at NYU slept in the always-open library because his $15,000 scholarship and his part-time jobs couldn’t cover the $10,000 a year dormitory costs as well as books and food. And he blogged it: just look at the cover page […]

DVD-Jon has another go

Do you think DVD-Jon will get away with this one? He’s released the source code for a crack that lets you play tunes bought from iTunes on as many devices you want. I’m grading, no time for more links.

problem

One of the problems with the grading is that I’m grading blog reviews and so I keep just having to have a look at the blog the student’s reviewed, and well, you know where that leads.

got distracted

Strange how much easier it is to plan next semester‘s course than to just finishing this week‘s grading. I was just giving myself a few minutes of surfing, honestly, just a moment, you know, only then I thought I’d just ever-so-quickly try […]

change of vision

I’ve been reading Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene, which is a well-written and engaging book. I read it mostly for the chapter that introduced the concept of memes, but I’ve also really enjoyed the discussion of evolution from the point of view that […]

where I’ve been

This definitely belongs to the “I Choose And Personalise My Self-Representations Therefore I Am” category. Can anyone translate that to Latin for me so it sounds more philosophical, please?

dreams

Sometimes my dreams stay with me in daylight. I dream of friends and family, of my lover and of people whose blogs I read but whom I’ve never met. They’re all themselves but different. I wander my dreams like K. searching for […]

change

Now that there’s more images in the standard layout, of course, my photos look different. Hm.