I am ready for research, writing and blogging again. Two weeks in Scotland gave me energy and inspiration for at least a year. These are some of the breathtaking views we saw on the Isle of Skye, and that I hope to keep with my in my mind’s eye for a long time: 

Although I have been awfully [...]

The online library catalogue at Utrecht University not only has a design homepage to go with their cool design building. It has also just integrated Library Thing into their catalogue. When you look up a book, the search results come with a set of tags from Library Thing users, as well as a list of [...]

My hopes of Apple ever releasing an e-book reader with beautiful software and the same sleek looks as their new MacBook Air were crushed by the New York Times this morning. In an interview, Steve Jobbs declared that the idea of e-books is based on a fundamental mistake:
It doesn’t matter how good or bad [...]

A book token I got for Christmas came with a ticket from our National Railservice (NS), which allowed one free trip, as long as the traveler was accompanied by another person who did buy a ticket. So we made one of the longest Dutch train journeys possible from where we live (still only 2 hours), [...]

Blow some life into this forgotten corner of the web.
Do more research next to teaching.
Write more about said research here.

I hope this is all going to work, because I have a lighter teaching load the coming semester, and lots of research projects lined up. I even blocked days in my diary using different colours for [...]

No teaching this week, so we escaped to the very southern tip of the Netherlands for some autumn hiking. Here are some impressions of the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness in Limburg (more on flickr).

No teaching also means that there will (finally) be some more activity here, climaxing in the early modern carnivalesque [...]

Have you heard about Blackle? I hadn’t, a friend told me about it yesterday. It’s a black, energy-saving version of Google. Apparently, a black screen uses less energy than a white, and every time you use Blackle instead of Google, you help the environment. At least, that’s the theory:
In January 2007 a blog post [...]