I’m shamelessly stealing Tony’s conversation posting style on this one… But that’s okay because he was the other half of the conversation. K: So I decided to register for a blogging conference that’s happening in the forestry building at UBC next month. T: Really?! K: Yeah, i figure it’s good to see what’s going on [...]
I reinstalled Windows XP on our home PC today after several aborted attempts yesterday. In the end, the successful solution involved creating a Win98 boot disk from an old floppy (shockingly, Dan had one in his backpack!), and retrieving an old PS/2 keyboard from the deep recesses of our storage locker the basement of our [...]
Halloween has always been a favourite holiday of mine, but this year I decided to really go all out with my costume. Make Magazine published some great Halloween costume tutorials last year, and I was inspired by Nicole Magne’s awesome Headless Marie Antoinette tutorial. So I created a headless bust from paper mache and cobbled [...]
I always enjoy PhD comic strips but today’s strip is especially funny (and hits rather close to home for me!)
Because the grad students in our lab are all about planning ahead, we purposely overbooked hotel rooms for an upcoming conference with the intention of cancelling later on if we didn’t have enough bodies to fill the rooms. This was indeed the case, so last week I set about cancelling one of our rooms using [...]
The apartment hunt continues but the hunt for a Wii is over. The Source put me on their backorder list when they couldn’t fill my order a couple weeks ago and they finally came through with one late last week. With any luck I’ll be able to pick it up at Purolater tomorrow evening. And [...]
I’ve been coveting the Nintendo Wii console ever since it came out before Christmas, but I didn’t have a chance to actually try it out until last weekend. We went to a party at a friend’s place and spent the evening playing various Wii games, and now I really really want one. I thought I [...]
Nothing like a website redesign to aid procrastination from schoolwork! This lovely WordPress template is from the folks over at N.Design (I added the snowflake). School is winding down for the semester. I wrote my last exam ever (I hope!) last Friday. Now I’ve just got to write a thesis and I’ll be done the [...]
We launched a new version of Status Report this weekend – It is now driven by a content management system which will make it super-easy to keep up to date. I’m really excited to be involved with this project. Lately I have been a bit down on the whole research thing, as I feel like [...]
In my capacity as an HCI grad student/usability professional, I recently had the opportunity to evaluate a blogging tool from a company here in Vancouver. Qumana provides a local software interface to pretty much any web-based blogging software you can think of. While the software is definitely still a work in progress (they are still [...]