A picture I took today of the three great kids I have in my life: My son Oskar, my daughter Frida (upside down), and my girlfriend's daughter Arésu. 

New Journal on Routledge

Look out for an indispensable title from Routledge: Artifact. The journal for designing human interfaces with technology. Edited by Ida Engholm, Judith Gregory, Erik Stolterman, and me. Appearing in 2006... oh, wait: 2007! Look out for it on http://www.informaworld.com/artifact.

E-mail your blog

I am working from home today, so I thought I would try to find an easier way to update my blog than going to blogspot, log in, edit away, post, view the result, and logging off again. As it happens, this is the way to do it: E-mail your own blog.

I guess there are a number of ways you can do this, but this one is incredibly simple: You get a secret e-mail address from your blog
hosting company, which you write your blog entries to. When e-mail to that address appears at your blog hosting company, it gets published immediately. Great savings in time, and - if you are on dial-up as I am - in money. Good news for the busy blogger!

Getting to school

Junior went to school on his own today. He is ten years old. Sounds like no big deal, right?

In fact it is rather a big deal. I was divorced from his mother when he was three. In the last seven years I have lived a considerable distance away from kindergarten, school, and after school. So in the last seven years we have spent countless hours on busses and commuter trains together. Talking, reading, playing, and sometimes sleeping. Today was the first time that he went to school on his own.

What finally prodded us to take this step was the savings in time and money. He can go on his own for 15 Danish crowns, I can go with him for 32 crowns. It takes him less than an hour, but I work at home today and so would use two hours on the trip and return trip.

I am happy and sad. Sad that he is growing up and that we will be spending less time together, happy and proud that he is gaining in independence.

Getting up earlier still....

Today is Monday. My ten year old son, Oskar, begins an alternative week at school. The idea is to turn school into a smalltown community for a week, complete with businesses, bank, and town council. The great thing according to junior is that they don't pay tax. The bad thing is that the pay is very modest. Junior applied for a position as journalist and was accepted. In order to receive his full pay of ten øf he had to show up ten minutes early. Being one second late meant losing three øf. Consequently, we both got up ten minutes earlier than we do normally. I got up at 5:45. I got to work at 8:11, which is very early around here (University of Copenhagen). Being early feels great!

Link to junior's great school here: http://www.oef.kk.dk/