For me the moment came during my twentieth or twenty-fifth or maybe fifteenth lesson in Alexander technique. My RSI had almost gone, I was feeling happier but still so horribly anxious about finishing my PhD. After another conversation about the principles of […]

This evening I rediscovered a small stack of family papers, mostly relating to my grandmother Lorna’s family. Lorna Walker, nÈe McAuley – I posted a scrap of video of Lorna a month or so ago. Each person on the family tree has […]

Amazing, really, that I’ve been blogging for nearly three and a half years (!) and only got one of these t-shirts today. I’ve never seen one in person before though, and I’m giggling (alone in my office) thinking of all the interesting […]

This is my grandmother, Lorna, on a Christmas day in Perth in the eighties. She came to visit us in Norway when I was little and did yoga and when we visited her she had a cat and a dog and lived […]

An article in Søndag Aften provides an annotated list of a dozen or so Danish works of electronic literature – that is, literature that uses the medium and isn’t just a book converted to a PDF or unlinked webpage. Poesi.dk has lots […]

Being able to reuse teaching materials is brilliant, and embarking on my second year of teaching I’m just reaping my first crop. And you know, they get better each time, because I’ve learnt from last year’s problems. Well, from some of them, […]

Responses are invited to a report on open source in Norway: “Åpen programvare i Norge – status, effekter, hindringer og drivere”. The report and more information (in Norwegian) is available from e-norge, the government’s information site about IT strategy in Norway.

I’ll be defending my doctorate just a fortnight shy of a hundred years after the first woman in Norway was awarded her doctoral degree.

There’s a Jenny Holzer installation at the new Telenor building at Fornebu, a 30 kroner bus ride from Oslo, and on Saturday afternoon James and I went out to see it. Running Letters consists of words that scroll from right to left […]

I blogged this two years ago but obviously need a refresher: everyone thinks they’re a fraud. At least some of the time. I didn’t actually realise that until I read a book my sister lent me – I used to think it […]