Back in 1995-1996, during my first year as a student at Uppsala University, while over at a friend’s place doing calculus assignments conversation strayed away from the integrals to an ad in a newspapers beside us on the table. It was a full-page ad for the Swedish postal service. (Back then Sweden actually had a [...]
I spent some of my spare time during the spring at the UBC bike kitchen, building a bike from parts. I realized that the bicycle has been my primary vehicle for the last 15 years or so, but that I couldn’t do much more than fix a flat tire. Figuring that the best way to [...]
I have fond memories of playing computer games on the Amiga 500. Trying to learn programming all by myself. Nowadays, programming is something I do daily, but it does not have the same appeal. Gaming I don’t do as often however. I do not know why. Lack of time, and also a lack of good [...]
I have to confess that I am not a typical todo-list person. I wish I was, but as with much else I lack the discipline… even to make todo-lists. I do try however, and I found that a digital version of my list of things to fix, stored up somewhere in the cloud is pretty [...]
I read Last Chance to See almost 20 years ago. In Swedish. The translation had just arrived to the small library next to my school. As someone who just had gotten his first bite of the Hitchhiker’s, I saw the name of Douglas Adams on the front page and grabbed it. I never regretted that. [...]
First out on my text on useful software then is Mendeley. This is a rather handy application to help organize and manage academic articles and manuscripts. The developers behind Mendeley describes it as itunes for research papers… though I never liked itunes I find this specific piece of software very useful. Like many other researchers [...]
What defines something useful, and what defines something truly high tech? As for the last, I have gradually come to, regard electric devices as high technology. It might be that I have been working with computers since my early teenage years, but I think that it has to do with the fact that electronic gizmos [...]
Anathem is probably the best piece of fiction I read last year (2009). I like Neal Stephenson‘s work. Read the classics Snow Crash, and Cryptonomicon some years ago, and the lack of time is the reason I have not gotten through Baroque cycle yet. I was really glad when I found the time for the [...]
During the autumn I read the last instalment in Stephen Brust‘s Vlad Taltos series: Jhegaala. Again I put off the review due to work and life, but when I started to write it up this morning I realised that I should probably write up a bit on the whole book series as this is the [...]
Better late then … My book reading has declined with as I have been getting back into the never ending flood of scientific articles competing compete for my attention. Funny enough, it has not declined as much as my apparent lack of writing even short reviews here. Sad. I have, in fact, been able to [...]
