By Norwegian law, making copies of media for your own private use has always been legal. Right now, downloading music or movies is legal, but uploading isn’t. Now a suggested law will make it illegal to download music (except from close friends, […]

I’ve been enjoying the streetart and graffiti on the old student centre in the last week or so. The building’s going to be torn down, so it’s been declared fair game for decoration, and every morning when I walk past it new […]

The next Digital Arts and Culture conference is going to be in Copenhagen, December 1-3, and the call for papers is just out! Full papers to be submitted by August 1. My advisor, Espen Aarseth, started the Digital Arts and Culture series […]

This is interesting. The Eyes of Laura. Will read more later. Blog, surveillance, videos, narrative, yeah, interesting.

Anders got the job! Hooray for f??rsteamanuensis Anders!

Things are really rather hectic. Not necessarily too hectic, but every minute at work is full and my list of things to do is getting longer, not shorter. I bought a paper newspaper today, despite my (unsatisfying) paid subscription to the PDF […]

They’ve identified Ole and Kirsti’s bodies. They probably have Shyrin‘s, too, but are still identifying it. I’m not sure what I’d expected to feel. All I have is an urge to change the subject every time its mentioned. I told my daughter […]

Look! Snowdrops! It’s nearly springtime!

Students are good fun. I insist the HUIN105 (webdesign by blogging) students take photos and upload them to their blogs, and of course, they do, with the eyes of true documentarists.

I’ve been quite amused at comments from students and colleagues who enjoyed my recent Bridget Jones version of department head blogging, but who have totally missed the intertextual reference. I mean, come on, it’s blatant copy-catting! Surely I’m not the only new […]