Just got back from Ida’s birthday pre-party and we had a marvelous strawberry cake (yummy)!! Congratulations Ida and hipp hipp Hurray! 🙂
The real party is tomorrow evening for anybody interested. Just invite yourselves 🙂

SPring is back and I honored it by taking out my bike again and riding 9.74 Km in high pace (which means in my untrained condition a mean speed of 18.5 Km/h). Wooohooo. I feel good! 🙂

I got my first free issue of Time Magazine today and they always have splendid photos of what is happening in the world. This issue obviously only covered one one subject, the current war in media attention (all the other 20 or so wars going on right now aren’t important enough to get any media coverage), the Iraq conflict. There were many photos from the war that showed many different parts, but one really caught my attention. A photo taken at a demonstration were someone had changed the hair on Bush and put a small mustache on him. This made him look very much Hitler.
If anybody local want to read it please let me know.

My throat hurts. It hurt when I wrote research applications. It hurt while answering emails. It has been hurting me all day. I have a cold. Blääää. Good night.

Do you know what the worst part of giving blood is? It is not all the questions, it not seeing your blood flow out, it is even the large needle they stick into you. No, it is all the disgusting iron pills you have to take for 6 weeks afterwords!
I started giving blood on February 26 2003 and I only have one pill left.

Last Friday it was down for 50 minutes, now it is down again. It always seems to happen when I am about to have an online meeting ;-/ It went down 08:30 and now (8.45) I have to get out in the cold and move to Marratech.
I feel so sorry for myself! 🙂

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I just read an old paper (1992-93) entitled “Why Do Users Like Video? Studies of Multimedia-Supported Collaboration” by John C. Tang and Ellen Isaacs. The paper is long paper and reports on an investigation they did within SUN regarding different video conferencing solutions. They write many good points but one thing really stood out:

“Rather, we should strive to understand how new forms of interaction can be integrated with the existing ones into people’s day-to-day work”

Too much research in this area today is done on the technical details underneath ( that is what I got my PhD in!).

It is snowing 🙁 Oh no! Buhu, I long for the summer!
I am heading out to the play ground anyhow with Tovah. No amount of snow can stop us 🙂

I was out riding my bike tonight and twice I was almost run over by a car. It is like the drivers have forgotten that there might be bikes on the bike paths so they just don’t look before crossing them. I hope that 66666-taxi got a permanent dent in the hood when I hit it with my fist!!
I hate car drivers 😉