Category Archives: Musings

Useful things and high tech stuff

Posted on February 4, 2010 by lukas

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 … Continue reading →

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Why I am not on Facebook (and why it doesn’t matter to t.h.e.m)

Posted on September 11, 2009 by lukas

When people sometimes ask me why I am not on facebook, or some of the other social networking sites (despite the title, this test is general) I usually joke it away saying something like “oh, I know way too much … Continue reading →

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Some initial thoughts on the future of online scientific publications

Posted on August 9, 2009 by lukas

A recent PhD comic is a fun comment on something that I believe will become an important and serious topic of discussion in the science community in the near future (it has been going on for some time already). There … Continue reading →

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Did you feel the Internet stop for a heartbeat?

Posted on March 5, 2008 by lukas

Yesterday, the news spread on the Net, and it stopped a bit. Did you feel it? Posts in forums and on blogs; no not on those blogs, on the ones read by people who make this thing float: Gary Gygax … Continue reading →

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On Knol. Part 1

Posted on December 25, 2007 by lukas

Google announced Knol a couple of weeks ago. It is an upcoming knowledge database, or encyclopedia, probably aiming to rival Wikipedia. Now, to start just a wikipedia clone would be futile, and Google knows this of course. Knol differs from … Continue reading →

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Om namn och anställning

Posted on September 11, 2007 by lukas

Såg på nyheterna i dag att en undersökning visat att folk med utländskt klingande namn ofta sorteras bort innan anställningsintervjuer och inte kontaktas för ofta. (Nyhetskälla: SVT.) Först och främst är det ju trist att det finns sådan diskriminering, och … Continue reading →

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