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Why Employees Should Blog

In Unfiled on 25 October 2004 tagged Unfiled with 2 comments

Robert Scoble aka Scobleizer is the public Microsoft blog voice. Recently, he posted an articly on being afraid to blog that raises some good issues though disregards the risks of having every employee speak as a voice for the company. There are reasons that corporations filter everything through a PR department. Having said that, I [...]

The World’s Election

In Unfiled on 21 October 2004 tagged Unfiled with 4 comments

During election year, many people say things like, “if you’re not going to vote, you have no right to complain.” That’s a sentiment I agree with but what if you have no ability to vote on something that impacts you directly? I am, of course, talking about the US elections. I’ve rarely been interested in [...]

Remembering Birthdays is not Customer Experience

In Unfiled on 15 October 2004 tagged Unfiled with Comments Off

Many sites ask you for birthday information for one reason or another (sometimes for no reason at all). Putting aside the fact that sites really shouldn’t ask for information they don’t need, using the information for additional spam really makes little sense to me. On birthdays (I’ve had a few), I have found I typically [...]

Top 5 Cities

In Unfiled on 11 October 2004 tagged Unfiled with 3 comments

In High Fidelity, John Cusack makes top 5 lists of everything from his breakups to best motion picture soundtracks. Here are my top 5 cities to move to following London in no particular order: Tokyo Vancouver New York San Francisco Seattle The noticeable omissions are Hong Kong, which was excluded because of a lack of [...]

Unique Usernames

In Unfiled on 10 September 2004 tagged Unfiled with 1 comment

Why do websites still insist on using usernames instead of e-mail addresses as unique logins? Remembering passwords for the multitude of sites out there is already a chore. To usernames to that list is like remembering two sets of passwords. I could use the same strange and probably unique username everywhere but then find that [...]

MMORPG Gaming Studies

In Unfiled on 25 August 2004 tagged Unfiled with 2 comments

I am 2 days away from my thesis deadline. The tests and results have been interesting and I lvoe talking about it. Typing about it is another matter altogether but then I’ll be glad I went through the process of collating the infromation in a digestible format (if by digestible, I mean a 70-100 page [...]

Austria: Vienna

In Unfiled on 13 August 2004 with Comments Off

After Budapest, we returned to Vienna to sightsee for a few days prior to the conference. We saw the Vienna Boys Choir, had their famous pastries and coffee and checked out some museums. All in all, a good trip. You might also notice with these two trips that we discovered the super macro mode on [...]

Hungary: Budapest

In Unfiled on 13 August 2004 with Comments Off

After four months, we finally got around to posting our pictures from the trip we took in conjunction with the ACM-CHI2004 conference. The conference was in Vienna but we went to Budapest first as it’s quite close and we stayed with Jay and his girlfriend Andi and her mom. They wer amazing hosts and we [...]

Comics. Lots of Comics.

In Unfiled on 13 August 2004 tagged Unfiled with Comments Off

Yes, I’ve been incredibly busy with my thesis work. If you look at the thread, you’ll see that Tom and others contributed a lot in helping me refine my test. Thanks to all of you, I have a better chance of passing. Actually, I got my interim transcript and found I actually did better than [...]

Newsflash!

In Unfiled on 19 July 2004 tagged Unfiled with 6 comments

People ask if I’m blogging less because I’m busy. Perhaps it’s, simply because there is simply nothing left to report in the world.