This is probably nothing in the large context of things going around at the moment. To me however, this is pretty solid news. I'm happy to declare that my PhD thesis, has been approved by the assesment commitee meaning that I'm due to defend the bloody thing on the 29th of September, at the IT University of copenhagen, starting 14.00. M i Aud. 4 4. floor. You are ...

Holy smoke this one got under my radar. As of august 29, 2006 Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to Apple’s board of directors. This is hugh. Not only does two of the largest, and at this time must cutting edge companies mix blood - in itself rather signifcant. And it is rare that two possible contennders are greating each other, simply because they ...

As faithfull readers of this blog will notice, after my last design kind of deconstructed itself, I have made yet another redesign of the blog. Yes I know! Seems like all I do around here is arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic.... This time I went for at little more clean and modern look and feel. Adding also some Ajax functionality here and there, see for instance the ...

Det står virkelig slemt til når min gode nabo - venligt men bestemt - siger at, der sker for lidt på min blog. Well, det må der gøres noget ved. Og jeg gider ikke skrive noget som er utilgængeligt og på engelsk (det går resten af mine vågne timer med) - så her i stedet tre 5 ting jeg tænker på ligenu. 1. Hvorfor er det lige, at der ...

Wow, tangible interfaces has surely come along way, just check out this multi touch "Minority Report" like demo and what seems to be navigation of Google Earth, and a super-funky DJ like interface. more on Multi-Touch Interaction Research Oh, and if you believe that graffiti can't be deligthfully poetic then watch this.

The case about the Mohammed drawings obviously have gone completely astray. No doubt about it - and it's leaving "naive" wellmeaning folks like myself looking pretty stupid. Sure I'd stand up for the freedom to speech, but not to insult someone, and sure I can understand why muslims feel very insulted, yet the reaction is a tad over the line to say the least. In all of this it ...

He's been talking about the 100$ laptop project for years and now it is here! The computer will be given to children in third world contries under the credo "one laptop per child". Yesterday