I never really took time to read up on this talk of the Web 2.0, but now there’s an article celebrating the new wonderful things made possible with the AJAX scripting and all the other stuff that makes it so new and exciting. I haven’t actually used any of the sites they list in the [...]
Last night, I went to attend a debate at the Department of Anthropology on the much-discussed Mohammed-cartoons. It focused on the anthropological perspective of the reactions and counter-reactions to the drawings and how anthropological theories can help win broader understanding in the current situation. Now this is a rare thing. In all my time at [...]
Writing a computer program is somewhat similar to writing a recipe. You need to do things in a certain order in order to ensure success. In Object Oriented programming such as Java, you focus on writing each chunk of code as a separate object. When you write a chunk of code like this, you shape [...]
Before I go with the lecture for week 2, I need to go back and explain something about compiling. When you compile your textfile with the .java extension, you usually do this from a Command Line Interface (CLI) or from an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The CLI is a basic part of most operating systems [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I began a course in Introductory Programming at the IT University. I don’t know a lot about programming, and I certainly don’t have a lot a training or experience programming, so I’m starting at the very bottom and working my way up. The course focuses on the programming language Java [...]
Having been ill for a couple of days this week has left me completely zonked. This resulted in a rather bizarre case of insomnia which brought me through Samuel Delany’s Babel-17 last night. Uh, Spoiler alert! Babel-17 reminds me a lot of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. Both books use the idea of languages that function [...]
This is pretty cool. Be sure to check out the video.
Today I’ve been searching for various funds and grants to apply for in relation to my impending fieldwork. I’ve been looking at all sorts of grants: from “hotel owner Anders Månsson’s Grant” (which sounds like something from Monopoly) and “Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik’s Fund” to various corporate research programmes. Eventually, as I widened my [...]
Thanks to Front Bumper for providing a good selection of reactions from the Syrian blogosphere. They go a far to show how the Mohammed drawings are being used in the internal politics of Syria.
“The greatest gift that God has given us is the ability to figure things out for ourselves.” – Averroes