OK, so I should be writing but I needs a break and this seems like a worthwhile attempt at procrastination… Every time someone dares to create a canon they are naturally shot down. But at the same time I really want to list the 20  non-fiction books a well rounded person should read. A list [...]

I am now faced with an aesthetic dilemma – I have too many books and not enough will-power to stop buying more. The solution to the problem was to decrease the number of books I had so that I could keep up my addiction to dead trees. So first I used BookCrossing to release a [...]

A badly kept secret about myself is that I suffer from a sci-fi/fantasy/murder/mystery deficiency. It’s a bit like dyslexia (which oddly enough is a very difficult word to spell… is this sarcasm on the part of the non-dyslectics?). Anyway it’s a bit like dyslexia in that I like, enjoy and get sci-fi/fantasy films but it’s [...]

On my way home I was wandering aimlessly browsing stores and walked into a second hand bookstore and found The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson for 1.99 euros! The book includes many of his longer and shorter works and a large selection of letters. My favorite is Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Isaac McPherson [...]

King Oscar I of Sweden 1799-1859 was the son of one of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, one Napoleon’s marshals who became king Charles XIV John of Sweden. During Oscar’s time as crown prince and heir to the Swedish throne he was very socially active. Among other things he wrote a series of articles on popular education, and [...]

It’s been a long weekend going slowly blind over text and screen. It’s time for a reasonable level of Monday normality to start. But before that it’s time for some light relief. These are from my absolute favorite cartoonist Mattias Adolfsson, he does the most amazing artwork, creative interpretations of our inner animals (or just [...]

Sitting indoors typing stupid stupid stupid work stuff. When I take a break and look out the window I see a neighbor sitting on her balcony reading a book in the sunshine. This is totally envious, I want to sit and read a book, stroll in the park and do non-work related things on weekends. [...]

Sometimes, not often, but sometimes I wish I had endless funds. It would be fun to fly to London and go to Sotheby’s on the 17 July and bid on Lot 300, a mouse with glasses reading a newspaper by Beatrix Potter. It’s a 125mm by 70mm fine ink and watercolour drawing, signed and dated [...]

Sitting at the train station waiting for the train – this is really nothing noteworthy in my life since I seem to spend much of it on trains these days. But you realize that you are spending too much time in train stations when you begin to recognize members of the cleaning train cleaning crew. [...]

Finding new books is always exiting and I am looking forward to reading Two Bits: The cultural significance of Free Software by Christopher M. Kelty Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made openly and freely available through an unconventional use of copyright law. [...]

So I was looking at Slideshare which is basically a site where lots of people upload and download powerpoints. Besides avoiding other work the reason for me being there was to see whether this would be a good tool to use. Or maybe it’s enough already with the whole 2.0 thingy. Anyway while looking at [...]