I’ve already managed to scare myself this morning by rereading my year-old but perfectly preserved description of a colleague’s PhD defence. I was looking for a neutral description of a Norwegian PhD defence ritual to link from my nice new version of […]

The students are back! Everything’s alive again here in these dusty old corridors.

Roy‘d like bloggers to please participate in a survey to aid his honours research on blogs – you do have to invent answers to some questions, but they’re not too demanding: “How do you explain blogs to a friend” is one we’ve […]

I’m thinking of awarding myself a week in the States after defending my thesis, as a prize for being so amazingly impressive and having managed to complete a PhD. (Yes, I know, I haven’t actually got it yet, and it could still […]

I updated my list of email narratives this morning, with some help from Nick (thanks!). All the commercial efforts at using stories told in email for marketing have given way to sexy webcams, and I don’t know of any new commercial attempts, […]

ISEA 2004 (International Symposium on Electronic Arts) is going to be held August 14-22 on a ferry between Stockholm, Talinn and Helsinki.The works and papers submissions deadline has been extended to September 20 this year. MA students in geophysics go to Utah […]

Letters (weblogs) are secretive, the reader (the writer) is in charge and feels no pressure of the writer’s (the reader’s) presence, and I do believe that a young girl prefers to be alone with her dreams. Or more precisely: Et brev er […]

In the summer of 2001 I received and eagerly read the emails that make up Rob Wittig’s Blue Company, an email narrative. I only just discovered that it had a sequel of sorts, or a homage, Kind of Blue, written by Scott […]

I finally claimed my orphaned essays and publications and linked them from the left sidebar. For some reason I forgot them in my last redesign and yes, it took half a year to get around to the ten minute task of putting […]

Oh dear. The Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs has a website that can only be viewed in Explorer. Unimpressive, huh? However if you do use Explorer, and click “Billedkunst” and then “Bevilgninger” and then scroll to the bottom you get to see […]