Man skal ikke plage andre,
man skal være grei og snill,
og for øvrig kan man gjøre hva man vil.

– Fra Kardemommeloven

October 6, 2011

In Tribute

Here is Steve Jobs famous commencement speech at Stanford:

September 27, 2011

Six Killer Apps of Prosperity

Here is an intersting varient on Burke's connections and trigger theory:  Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them the 6 killer apps -- that promote wealth, stability and innovation. And in this new century, he says, these apps are all shareable.


September 18, 2011

Alaska home construction

Been a while since I posted. We spent our summer in Two Rivers working on our retirement home.  This has been a humbling experience, as I discovered that I don't know a thing about home construction.  What a geat learning opportunity this has become.
---Friluftsliv is a Norwegian tradition of living close to nature. The Norwegian hytte belongs to this heritage. See our favorite magazine Hytteliv.
---The Alaska Log Home was built in 2003 by Bill Kisken of Log Weavers using the hand scribed Swedish cope system. Bill is an artist. Notice how tightly the logs fit at the ends, this is very diffucult to achieve.
---Connections: James Burke's Knowledge Web Project inspired by the series "Connections" provides a unique perspective of the interaction of history, technology, knowledge and social change. Everything is interdependent.