Last night I was treated to a rare experience: The Mathematics Revue at the University of Copenhagen. My friend Jakob was playing saxophone in the revue band and had invited us to spectate. It was good fun. It reminded me of Biella Coleman’s research on hacker wit and humor, and it seems that this sort [...]
Delivery of the Economist seem to be spotty at best around here, so it wasn’t until today that I got my hands on last week’s issue with its survey of new media. It considers, in some detail, the possible consequences of everybody having a medium of expression through blogs like this one. Participatory media that [...]
In a Slashdot discussion on Open Source Software in the developing countries, the following comment was made by the self-consciously monikered FlyingPig: At the moment software is frequently a tax that poor countries pay to rich countries to be allowed to participate. Poor countries often have weak currencies, but the local cost of goods and [...]
Last night I spent some time downloading the beta version of Ubuntu 6.06. As it suggested that you use a Bittorrent client to download the 684 MB file, I dutifully complied in order to strain the Ubuntu servers as little as possible. Unfortunately, I hadn’t looked properly at how the bittorrent protocol actually works. It [...]
Well, today I’m taking what feels like a plunge, though I guess that’s mostly in my mind. I’ve just sent this mail to the Ubuntu Sounder mailing list: Hello all Ubunteros, My name is Andreas Lloyd and I am a graduate student at the department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Having used [...]
Two British literature experts have been conducting a study comparing the favourite fiction books of men and women. Many of the interviewed had some professional connection to literature. Apparently, they were much surprised by their findings which showed that men preferred angsty existentialist books while women preferred books of passionate struggle. The top 5 lists [...]
I’ve been reading several books on Interaction Design and how to design usable computing interfaces. I’ve read Alan Cooper’s About Face 2.0 and Klaus Kaasgaard’s Software Design & Usability. The former is a sort of entry-level book to the world of HCI, and it takes the reader through all the various stages of design â?? [...]
Having blog often leads to being in the awkward position that you realize that there are things that you want to blog about but you don’t quite manage to fit in. I’m in such a situation now, having looked through some of my old pictures, I’ve realized that I wanted to blog about my adventures [...]
Yesterday I went shopping with my mother and my little sister in Randers (being back home for Easter and all). Both are preparing for my little sister’s big day of confirmation in May. Danish tradition bids that this coming-of-age rite is turned into a grand feast of consumerism, elevating the young teens to a whole [...]