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Appropriation and Travel 2.0
My mother is off to travel the world. She has retired from the sometimes rewarding often frustrating world of teaching in a modern world, her children can take care of themselves so she has packed her bag and is leaving us!
As one of the results of her life’s work to date, it is my job [...]
Assumptions and Skype hearing aids
My mother was very pleased to announce to me that her Skype ‘hearing aid’ had arrived.
It is too easy to forget that the terminology we [people that 'work with computers'] use all the time just isn’t used or understood by others. I had a moment with a client the other day – “why don’t you [...]
I’m feeling lucky
I spend a lot of my time watching people. Mostly I do this as part of some user research piece or the other but often it is because I am just nosy and like to see how people go about doing things. I also eavesdrop. Apologies to all but in my defence, I do pick [...]
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