Before IBM work today, I finished up my usability report for the DELTA folks, and e-mailed it to the team. My entire workday for IBM was spent editing Tracey’s Admin Guide. I edited about 10 pages, then stopped and ran the Terminology Extraction tool on her source files, and made tons of markups using that. … Read more
I finished up my presentation, and ran through it a couple of times, timing myself. The first time it took 25 minutes. The second time it took 16. 16 is about right. I caught the bus to class. We spent the first third of the class talking about the two location-based articles to have been … Read more
I went into the office today, with a note in my pocket to remind me to call mom and dad for their 53rd anniversary today. Did I remember to? At 10:30PM, I did, which of course was too late. I’m remembering three years ago, though. I had a full day’s work, and then stayed in … Read more
A friend of mine sent this fantabulous obituary to me: Mariner, Ruth L. Ruth Latham Mariner knew she could claim an ancestor from the Mayflower; she also knew he had left his family in New England, sailed for the Caribbean, and starved to death. He left nothing for his descendants to glorify except their … Read more
I met Joe-Joe @ Panera’s at Crabtree, where we haven’t ever met. That place is huge. I’d brought my ENG 525 (Variety in Language) to read, but didn’t do too well reading it there. After a couple of hours, I left to go home to focus better on my reading. Tedious reading. I started on … Read more
Today was a Prompt Writing Workshop day. I arrived at Market Street Books in Southern Village with little time to spare, but we didn’t start right on time, so I stepped next door to get a discounted cup of coffee, which they offer to the writing group. Or so I thought. Or, they used to. … Read more
Did you know that “paradigm” is the 10,726th most used word? And that “is” is the 9th most used word? The 9th ranking shouldn’t be any surprise — I’ve already used it twice up to here in this entry. Want to know how I know this? Want to see where your favorite word ranks in … Read more
I updated my usability test materials in anticipation of Phase II of the testing, which I’m starting this Friday. I went to Target, where I bought: I met Joe for dinner at Los Tres Magueyes on Maynard Road in Cary. We had the hottest waiter. He made me think of that new country song, which … Read more
Over in bear_left‘s blog, though you can’t see it if you’re not on his friends list, he says, “But my point here, and I have one, is thinking about how I loved this song [in the video above — Bonnie Tyler’s Holding Out For A Hero] when I was 13 or so, and how that … Read more
Adriana de Souza e Silva’s, “Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces” De Souza e Silva’s article begins by examining three characteristics of mobile interfaces: ubiquity, wearability, and transparency. She makes the point that ubiquitous computing operates in a many-computers-to-one-person paradigm, and one in which computers are “forced to live out here with people.” Wearability is discussed in … Read more