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Category: technology

  • theft. educational kings of incompetence

    theft. educational kings of incompetence

    The story of how my alma mater, University College Østfold broke the intellectual property laws, stole my work, refused to pay, notify, credit or apologise.

  • anthropomorphism – you are like me

    anthropomorphism – you are like me

    Anthropomorphism is any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts (Wikipedia). It is human to see human responses around us, and we have the ability for abstraction. So we apply human patterns to animals and objects. “An evil wind blows..”

  • earth, wind, fire

    earth, wind, fire

    I went to a little talk today, held by Mano Mark, senior geo developer at Google, for whoever at the Smithsonian who wanted to come. I learned some interesting things…

  • the interview

    the interview

    A job interview in Oslo, that goes rather badly. How it turns out that the pro’s are not so pro, and how it is impossible to say ‘sorry’.

  • interfaces, their buttons and the village idiot

    interfaces, their buttons and the village idiot

    I stared at my friend’s washing machine. It has a million buttons, a big wheel, a digital display and a pile of little red and orange lights, with the odd green thrown in. I consider myself not a complete idiot, but have little patience with domestic appliances. They are here to make our lives simpler.…

  • bachelor thesis: a walk in the rift valley, four million years ago

    bachelor thesis: a walk in the rift valley, four million years ago

    Bachelor Thesis: The Smithsonian’s Human Origins Program Database: Relating scientific data through time and space. Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. Lars Bjørkevoll, Audun Hodnefjell, Bente Halvorsen

  • the bachelor years

    the bachelor years

    And so three years ended. Higher education. Just as I got good at playing the game, it is over. It was a mixed kettle; these three years. Most of the courses seemed exciting on paper, and a good handful of them turned out to be dreadful. Pointless. Insulting. Yes, digital media production is a new-ish…

  • computers & bones

    computers & bones

    Back at the smithsonian institution, national museum of natural history in Washington D.C. In the anthro department we are again getting back to work among skeletons, sculls, dust and wonderful people.

  • – au revoir, D.C.

    – au revoir, D.C.

    D.C. is a strange city; it feels like a bubble. It is a smallish, administrative city in a very very large and powerful country. It is rather anonymous. It seems, in this city of administration, power and museums, people live here for a few years, and it gives the city a neutral feel. I am…