Yesterday Amazon.com made the full text of 120000 books searchable. If you want to find books that mention cybertext, for instance, search books for cybertext, just as usual. The day before yesterday that search listed books with cybertext in the title. Today […]

Bulldozers are piling stones in water to make a path all the way around Store LungegÂrdsvannet, and enough of it is ready now that I could walk by the water almost all the way home. It’s raining again and my boots are […]

Had a look at the Alternate Reality Game (ARG) promoting the latest Matrix movie yet? It’s centred around the at first glance run-of-the-mill Metacortex site, perhaps continuing via their employee of the month’s personal website. At some point you’ll probably want to […]

This morning I saw large crumpled leaves still clinging to the stalk but withered by the first night frost. I wrapped an old woollen scarf three times around my neck before going outdoors. I don’t want to crumple.

A choir just started practicing in the downstairs hall! Fullbodied choral music halted only by occasional laughter. I’ve opened my office door and I guess I’ll do my grading here instead of going home as intended. At least until rehearsal’s over.

Hanne-Lovise’s seeing five films today, whereas I’ve only seen one in the whole film festival: Comandante, Oliver Stone’s 100 minute film of his 30 hour interview with Fidel Castro. It was a great movie, though god knows I’m sure they’re all liars, […]

What I have to do now: Write a press release. University photographer: make appointment, go. Write a summary in English for Dissertation Abstracts International. Get an ISBN number (ISBN: 82-497-0183-6). Make sure the dissertation is registered in BIBSYS. Have 40 copies made […]

The fifteenth ACM conference on Hypertext will be the first to accept hypertext submissions. About time, and good on ’em. The conference is in Santa Cruz, August 9-13 next year, and submissions due in March.

The faculty sent me the committee’s report electronically, to reach me more speedily: It is the judgement of the committee that Jill Walkerís dissertation displays the depth and breadth of research, command of the field, and original character required of the PhD. […]

I returned from an hour of silent twilight on Ulriken to the stifling intensity of the city. There was talking everywhere, a shop, a siren, lasers piercing the sky, a tractor beside a half-dug ditch, a woman with a dog asking directions. […]