OpenLife

Per Chr. Haugaard and I studied law together at Copenhagen University many years ago. He now lives in Belgium with his Belgian wife and their two sons. In his spare time he is the spokesperson for Erkki Liikanen - the EU commissioner for the Information Society.

Christian is a true Danish Internet pioneer. Schade is co-author with Morten Steiniche of Virtual Reality - en bog om den kunstige virkelighed (Borgens Forlag, 1992). The first book about Virtual Reality in Danish. Schade writes about VR and information technology for the danish daily Politiken. He have also written poetry, been editor of a hypertekst-edition of the aforementioned newspaper and written a report for the EU about the TEN-IBC-NAVIGATOR project.

After having worked as chief editor at Ingeniøren - a Danish online newspaper, after having played an instrumental part in developing DR online, and after having been in charge of portal strategy for Yahoo Nordic, Christian is now the chief editor at Virk - the new Danish business - government portal.

Christian and I had pizzas for lunch today Wednesday 13. August 2003 in Hellerup.

I know Mark Hindsbo from mutual association with the Danish eBusiness Association, Aquadux and Worknet. The last few years Mark has been in charge on the .Net initiative at Microsoft Denmark. Now Mark is leaving for a big job in Microsoft Headquarters Redmond, OR. Before his departure we had lunch at Microsoft offices at Tuborg Havn, Copenhagen. A good discussion on open standards, monopolies, the right to innovate and open source was had

Our friends Eva Bøggild and Jacques Blum hosted Saturday 9 August 2003 a private farewell party in Admiral Gjeddes Gaard for Carmi Gillon - the departing Israeli ambassador to Denmark - and his wife.

During Vilhelms, Jeannes and my holiday this August in Jutland we visited Jelling Kirke where you will find some of the oldest stones in Denmark with carved Rune inscriptions. The stones were erected some thousands years by Harald Blaatand (Bluetooth). Harald Blaatand was the first christian Danish king but is from a more neerdish perspective better known as having given name to the Bluetooth standard for wireless communication.

There are two Rune stones outside Jelling church. To us however, the smaller one (in the picture above) erected by King Gorm den Gamle (the Old) is more interesting of the two. We have at home in the courtyard of Admiral Gjeddes Gaard a replicate en miniature of it.

This extremely hot afternoon - Sunday 10 August 2003 - I spent in Sorgenfri Kirke, where my mother served as priest some ten years ago - at a wonderful koncert with the Russian/Austrian pianist Maria Raszwetaeva. The program was Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Skriabin. Fantastic music and performer!