I have only visited New York once before, a few days in the summer a few years ago. Both then and now my time was spent trying to meet up with a few friends living here, and pounding the sidewalk in Manhattan to get an idea of the city. This time I was hoping to […]
Late, sadly, for the last time. At a pizza restaurant in New York City, on my way to Norway for my Christmas break. Coming back from Zagreb, I was in a daze of grading 85 long exams, and (minimally) preparing for my own, before taking off for Norway (by Buffalo and New York).
I feel that […]
So since I finally have a laptop that is actually mobile, I can now try out the wonderful Google Gears, which allows me to use Google Reader in an offline mode. This is great, I can catch up with my blogs on the bus. However, there are still some problems. Pictures are not cached, that […]
I love how Web 2.0 and a lax enforcement of copyrights is making it possible to access cultures from all over the world, I can see Russian TV-shows, and music videos from Ethiopia, things that I could never even buy before (perhaps in Toronto, if you knew exactly where to go, but certainly not in […]
I don’t know why, but the Swedes produce a lot of good speakers. Hopefully most of you have already seen one of Hans Rossling’s presentation, if not here is one from TED 2007. And just today, through Eirik Newth’s blog, I found a link to Fredrik Härén, a Swedish guy who went to China to […]
Not one to normally promote Microsoft or the Zune, I came across this site with beautiful short films created by various artists, and wanted to share them. They are very much worth watching. I realize this is just what Microsoft wanted to achieve - viral spread - but hey, if they promote cool artists, I […]
Once again, this submission is egregiously late, and I apologize. I came back from the Open Translation Tools conference, which was absolutely excellent, and provided me with lots of new ideas and great projects, many relevant to open learning/open education. I will blog more about this soon.
I think one of the reasons for taking so […]
by Rabindranath Tagore
An idle, useless fellow he could never keep a job. But of his whims and fancies there was no end.
For instance, in small little wooden frames he would make lovely shell-patterns which, from a distance, looked like some ill-assorted painting: here a flight of birds; or a rough, uneven landscape, with cows grazing […]
So when I changed domain, unfortunately a number of things hosted here that were linked to from other places broke. I have gone back and changed the URLs in the blog posts, but I am not sure if Google will update that, so I will list them again here, with their new URLs.
Boxroom: Screencast on […]
