Did you know that AOL’s network for Instant Messaging (AIM), which iChat talks with, has been deemed a monopoly? Next time AOL upgrads AIM they’ll have to make it interoperable with other networks. So they’re not going to upgrade it. This appears […]

The Association of Internet Researchers conference is on, in Toronto. Liz just gave her talk on blogs this morning, Thomas Burg liked it, and Liz (in iChat while listening to presentations) sends me the URL to a site that collects blog posts […]

Oil refineries don’t let visitors get their fingers caught in the machinery. They load visitors into a bus and make a show of gathering up all the visitors’ lighters and matches to be kept safely at the front of the bus, out […]

Three days at Alver hotel discussing university pedagogy. Among other things we’re going on an excursion to an oil refinery to explore leadership and learning. Or something. If I wasn’t so sleepy from preparing my presentation for tomorrow I’d probably feel quite […]

On Rhizome a few days ago there was an announcement of a new exhibition of political computer games, based in South Africa, called <re:Play>. Haven’t had a spare moment to look at it yet, but it’s reported to be rather fascinating, and […]

Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) starts tomorrow, and Hanne-Lovise assures me there are lots of goodies. I’ll have to try and catch some of them.

There’s an evil bug in Safari or MoveableType that makes comment spam kind of jump into the actual post itself when you delete it. I’d started ignoring this, since it doesn’t seem to affect the actual post if you don’t save after […]

London: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Mm.

Good heavens. “I love you”, machine-translated from English to French to English to German to English to Italian to English to Portuguese to English to Spanish to English, becomes “Master to him”, now would you have guessed that? Lost in translation has […]

So do you think women tend to need more pats on the back than men do? Perhaps we read pats on backs differently, I mean maybe we don’t even get it when men mean to encourage us? Or maybe they don’t bother […]