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Hey, the university newsletter has a photo of me and my beautiful daughter sipping wine and cordial after the graduation ceremony! And here are a gazillion or so official photos.
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The going rate for an invitation to Orkut (the latest of many rather pointless social networking systems) is currently US$11. (via eleganthack)
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Rob Wittig’s teaching a course that’s eerily similar to mine. Though quite different.
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Torill just posted an excellent photo-documentary of what actually happened during the graduation ceremony. Apart from the rector patting my shoulder, which was about all I managed to report. I look cute in my robe with buckled shoes and a handbag, don’t […]
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Orkut is clearly doing the snowball rolling to critical mass thing right now – I signed up this morning and since then everyone seems to suddenly have twice as many friends. It probably won’t do much more than Friendster, LinkedIn, Tribe etc, […]
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 […]
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Poetikon is a Norwegian poetry site, edited by Morten Skogly. Most of the poems are short traditional pieces contributed by users, but there are some poems, I believe mostly by Skogly, that use the medium for more than simple publication. Bokstavlek is […]
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I think we Scandinavians can stop being alternatively smug and anxious about the horrors of US immigration. Gonzalo’s story of arriving in Denmark is totally disheartening.
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I added a paragraph about joy to my speech and now I feel just so happy and enthusiastic – this ceremony thing’s going to be great. I’m going to concentrate on the pleasure of research and of sharing knowledge and on how […]