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Monday, February 28, 2005

hours

I saw Stephen Daldry's The Hours on NRK yesterday. Finally. I'm very impressed, it was beautiful. Julianne Moore is always wonderful, but Nicole Kidman really surprised me beyond looking utterly different from herself. Oh, I loved the part where her niese asks Virginia Woolf where we go when we die.
- Back to where we came from.
- I don't remember where that is.
- Neither do I.

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

vegan

The last couple of days Norwegian newspapers have referred to Lindsay Allen at United States Department of Agriculture who claims that it is un-ethical to put children on vegan diet. I'm rather sceptical about her conclusions though. She's referring to research she carried out in a poor African community where children had been raised on diets basically consisting of corn and beans. Does she really believe eating vegan means having a similar diet? She certainly must have a rather restricted imagination, and I would definitely not wish to be invited to dinner at Lindsay's.

Oh, Lindsay Allen in BBC.

Tuesday, February 22, 2005

interviewing

I've just interviewed another informant about his use of personal communication media. I now have 6 face-to-face interviews (including a group-interview) and 3 interviews using MSN. I love learning about their use of IM (MSN), IRC (a few of them use it actually), mobile phones, and of course blogs/LJ's (and any other form of CMC they happen to use). I could write my whole dissertation based on my interviews so far, but I will of course do more interviews. At least 4 more interviews face-to-face, and a few more using MSN. The interviews provide me with wonderful material, and I know I will have a hard time choosing citations to illustrate my points. There will just be to much to choose from.

Sunday, February 20, 2005

time-shifting era

Wheras Anders is not very satisfied with his Sharp HR-DV 350, I love my Pioneer DVR-520H DVD. Recording to the hard disk really makes the difference compared to fumbling with video-tapes. I've spent free hours this week to catch up on TV I missed when in Costa Rica (you wouldn't want to know exactly what I recorded). There are loads of possibilities I haven't yet figured out, but I will when I need it. The user interface is intuitive, and it's just so easy to program the machine. I haven't had any troubles at all figuring out how to use my Pioneer.

Monday, February 14, 2005

picturing my life

I was importing 188 Cahuita/Costa Rica-photos from camera to iPhoto. Camera suddenly turns off, and iPhoto tells me it failed to erase 2 of the originals on the camera. But no photos were actually imported! Meaning iPhoto erased 186 pictures without importing them first? I froze inside. Ohmygod, ohmygod, ohmygod, I've lost all of my pictures, tears and snot all over (really). Of course all pictures were still in the camera. But I was certainly scared. What's a vacation if I don't have the pictures? Memories in my mind, yeah right.

Anyway, Cahuita was wonderful. A selection of photos can be found on my Flickr and in this this album

Friday, February 04, 2005

cahuita!

Tomorrow morning we're travelling for Cahuita, Costa Rica! A supposedly relaxed Afro-Carribean village in the region of Talamanca. White and black sand beaches, snorkling, leisure activities, national park, wildlife, relaxing.

Thursday, February 03, 2005

eavesdropping

I've skimmed James B. Rule's "From mass society to perpetual contact" in Katz and Aakhus Perpetual contact. And there on page 253 he says this thing that I don't quite understand: "Everyone has noticed the irritation of restaurant diners on being subjected to conversations carried on via mobile phone by other diners". Rule compares the mobile phone (and mobile conversations) to an invasive and uninvited plant. Others are offended by people who have private phone conversations in public at all. In public spaces, why is it so much worse to have a conversation with an absent other than with someone who's present? What difference does it make for the eavesdroppers?