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Gerry Gaffney of the UXpodcast interviewed me about my participation in Open Source and the Modified-Delphi Card Sort. I know these are two very unrelated projects, but I couldn’t resist being able to talk about Open Source!

The entire interview is about 25 minutes, with the first 8 minutes about usability in OSS. We had a bad Skype connection during the interview, so there are a few awkward spots that had to be heavily edited. Overall, Gerry did a wonderful job interviewing and made speaking very easy.

seele :: Dec.12.2007 :: Academics, Design, Open Source :: 1 Comment »

I finally completed the content draft for my graduate thesis. After I get a few eyes to read through it, it should be ready to be bound. I have a few more things to wrap up (one of them being Harry Potter 7 and a few work-related things I put of until this weekend) before I resurface and become a member of society.

This doesn’t mean I don’t have any projects already planned for the future, I will remain plenty busy:

• Wordpress contextual help (SoC project)
• Digikam usability report (months late)
• Object-based annotation research paper (for HCIL)
• A number of odds and ends kinds of things that make me the crazy person that I am

Cheers!

seele :: Jul.21.2007 :: Academics, Design, General :: 3 Comments »

It’s crunch time for my thesis. I have until the end of the week to get a content draft to my advisor to sign if I want to graduate this semester. For a while I thought I was on schedule because I had been putting a few hours a day in to it, but I’m beginning to feel the pressure as the last week begins to close. The statistics took a lot longer to report than I had thought which took up most of last week and the past weekend. I think today I will work on an easy section (like appendices) to let my brain rest.

All projects (other than day job related work) have been put on hold until this draft gets out.

More information about my thesis research

seele :: Jul.16.2007 :: Academics, Asides :: Comments Off

It is one of those days where I’m going to have to turn off IRC, AIM/MSN/Jabber/etc, email, and RSS to get anything done. I need the web to work on my project or else I’d flip the switch on my laptop (which I sometimes have to do when I work on my thesis). If it weren’t for the fact I work from home, I would be tempted to unplug my phone too.

Right now I am finishing up a report for the first stage of my WordPress/Google SoC project so I can do a few housekeeping things for work. I would really like to get some work on my thesis done tonight, but I think that will have to wait until tomorrow.

Digikam, I didn’t forget about you. I have the reports from the usability testing on my desk, I just need to create a top line report and give it to you guys. Unfortunately KDE is at the bottom of my ToDo list these days :(

Come the end of July I will be a sane person again. It is both a short and long time away with all the work I have to get done by then.

seele :: Jun.26.2007 :: Asides, Life :: Comments Off

I’m back from Berlin and LinuxTag. The funny thing is, I have no pictures of LinuxTag. Here are some of the pictures from me and J. traipsing around Berlin and Hamburg.

  

seele :: Jun.07.2007 :: General, Life, Open Source :: No Comments »