Today, I participated in a scientific experiment. At the promise of a solid gold payment (well almost, anyway), I went to the Faculty of Medicine to play my part as the guinea pig in a test examining the levels of BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrofic Factor) before, during and after physical activity. Now, I don’t know [...]
Over at the Apophenia Blog the local resident, Danah, is pondering how she would spend a billion dollars to design a university. If you had the money and the opportunity, how would you design your dream institution of higher education? I think this is a fascinating question, and one that more people should consider. It [...]
This week, the Economist has a quite interesting survey on the future for Intellectual Property and Patents in the technology industry. Definitely worth a look. Particularly, I found the article on why Big Business are supporting Open Source initiatives quite worthwhile.
Googling leisurely for some of the links for the piece below (which I wrote on the train with no internet access), I came across this short essay by Bertrand Russell. It is from around 1930 but seems remarkably relevant still. His diagnosis of this continuing trend of youthful cynicism is: The work of intellectuals is [...]
Autumn break is almost over, and I’m on my way back home to Copenhagen. I’ve spent a few days relaxing and fixing computers for my little sister, my mother and my friend Jeppe. Some of these problems have different causes, Jeppes were caused by the new version of Ubuntu, codenamed Breezy Badger which is kind [...]
My Digital Rhetorics course is progressing. And the deadlines for the assignments attached are moving closer. We are expected to create (rather than merely write) a mystory – a rather esoteric genre of digital rhetoric invented by the postmodernist academic Greg Ulmer. A mystory is, well, a good question. But answered. At first it seemed [...]
Today, I read the book “The Soul of a New Machine“. Written by journalist Tracy Kidder, it describes a group of engineers’ and computer scientists’ intense race to design and produce a 32-bit minicomputer in just one year from 1978 to 1979. The book is a good diachronic description of this year and a half [...]
Last Friday, I participated in a symposium on computer games as Public Service. Given the luring title Gaming for the People, the symposium was a jointly arranged by Danish National TV (the Danish equivalent of the BBC) and the IT-university of Copenhagen – specifically their Games department. It was a great day with lots of [...]
So, birthday party went well. It was fun to see how well my family managed to mingle with my friends. My mom sent me some pictures from the night afterwards. Here’s mt little sister, Anne, with my friend Martha. And here’s (the other half of the same photo, actually). My wonderful grandparents, who came all [...]