Dagens NÊringsliv has an article about blogs today, with some stuff I talked with the journalist on the phone about, and a huge photo of me hugging my powerbook outside the new coffee shop at the university library. If you happened upon […]

The new Ândsverkslov or intellectual property rights law here in Norway is one of the things I clearly should be paying attention to but have no time or energy for. NRK has lots of articles about it, and one that makes me […]

Hm, if I’d be a US resident Apple would have extended the warranty on my iPod because the batteries of the early iPods weren’t good. They already replaced the whole iPod for me once, when the battery stopped recharging about eight months […]

I have to get up in six hours but how can one sleep away such nights?

Oh my. Today’s choice is of spot lights and down lights. The kitchen and dining area will have those elegant lights sunk into the ceiling (downlights in Norwegian, who knows what they’re called in English), and the hall and one bedrooom will […]

In an effort to teach less next semester (since I’m administrating far, far more) I’ve outsourced 2/3 of the course I usually teach on digital media aesthetics to Rune Klevjer, videogame expert and Scott Rettberg, electronic literature guru. Then I’m picking up […]

Does anyone have any experience with Gorenje fridges? Yes, I just spent two hours researching fridges. I’m renovating, which is awesome, and I’m so looking forward to moving into my upgraded, modern, compact apartment, but for the meantime I’m stuck figuring out […]

[Update: later that day. Goodness. Don’t you hate these “busier-than-thou” posts? Oh well, please forgive me, these things happen to the best of us… And I was feeling kinda guilty for not posting!] Among the next few weeks’ all-consuming tasks are: Read […]

The Bergen Festival’s on. There’s a sound installation in the greenhouse at MusÈhagen up at the university, and resonanCITY is a performance tonight at Teatergarasjen exploring “live cinema” using sounds collected locally. More info on new mediaish performances available at BEK.

Today’s seminar includes a talk by Terje Hillesund on e-books and open access (“Web browsers are designed for browsing, not for reading!”), Claire BÈlisle about how the materiality of books affects our conception of text and reading, and looking at how we […]