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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]