The end of the internet?

Received news of two stories about the impending death of the internet: Storm clouds looming for Internet, experts say Internet Gridlock to Occur in Just Two Years Are these stories accurate?  Perhaps not today, but soon they will be!  The internet is a finite resource in many ways, and if the net population keeps on [...]


Break no bones – Kathy Reichs

I must admit I’m kinda hooked on Kathy Reichs right now.  I’ve only read “Death du jour” and “Break no bones”, but I’m actively looking around for the next one.  I have a lot of books I’d like to read, but “Bare Bones”‘s cover looks so good, that I’ll add it to my buy list. [...]


Course week

This week is devoted to my own course work.  It has not started well.  Today I took a started late and took long nap, and now I have to “truncate” the day by going to bed so that I can have a “regular” day tomorrow.  Hmm. I found two interesting links today:  there is a [...]


What’s new, pussycat?

It may seem that I have not been posting recently, but that is not true.  For a while I considered converting this whole site to a wiki, but the idea has passed.  I’ll add the postings from that experiment here soon.  But I have been busy the last two weeks. For one thing, I have [...]


Excursions

On Saturday I visited Ähtäri zoo with Antero and Tiina. Even though the weather was not ideal, it was — just like our trip last summer — a wonderful experience. I saw several animals that I have never (and probably shall never) see again. Except that I plan to definitely go again. According to Antero [...]


Guns, germs and steel

At one point my friend Beatrice told me to read this book and for some reason I was reluctant to do so.  In my mind the topic was “boring”, perhaps too politically-loaded to interest me.  At the same time she recommended another book — I forget the title — which I did read and enjoy, [...]


Progress or regress

This has been a hard week. I have not slept more than four hours a night, and some nights I have not slept at all. I have a long list of items on my to-do list, and I stay busy, but I don’t seem to be making any progress. This mystery is probably explained by [...]