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Deliver my books bitch.
I tried out Cornell Library’s book-delivery service this week. A nice stack of David Foster Wallace books quickly appeared at my workplace yesterday afternoon, and I got a friendly call when they...
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SXSW Interactive – Sunday
Guess who drank too much last night? Everyone! It’s hangover day here at South by Southwest. The panels are slow and attendance is low. This morning I went to a panel debating the merits of ignoring...
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Portfolio
Got me a portfolio. It’s just screenshots right now. I’ll continue working on it tonight. Suggestions welcome. I haven’t even checked it out on non-OS X/Firefox machines yet… The post Portfolio...
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Wanna be a user tester?
Want $40? Got 90 minutes or so? Want to get paid to check out a 3-D virtual world? My employer and I are looking for local San Francisco people with NO experience using Second Life to help us evaluate...
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Five things I love about Firefox 3
If you are feeling early-adopter-y, you can hop over to mozilla.org and download the new Firefox 3 Beta build. It’s faster, slicker, and has OMG HOT new UI tools that should make your day better. Five...
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Scribefire Rocketh
I’m using a Firefox plugin called Scribefire to post this. Apparently I’m too lazy to fire up WordPress and write something for you guys, but if the text box is sitting at the bottom of my browser...
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SXSW Interactive 2009 – Funologists live and in person: Guerilla Game Research
Happy news! I was invited to be a panelist at the South by Southwest Interactive conference next month, as part of their ScreenBurn track. I’m on a panel called “Funologists live and in person:...
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A nerdygirl review of the Game Developers Conference
Greetings from an ethnic librarian working in the games industry! I’m posting this review of my experience last year at GDC (the Game Developers Conference) held every year here in San Francisco. It...
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Kaiser Perminente’s website causes heartburn, sleeplessness
Yesterday I tweeted: The Kaiser Permanente site is pretty, but someone organized it using their butt. I had just spent an hour on their member website trying to set my daughter’s primary care doctor....
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How FreeFile Almost Cost Me Plenty
Let’s talk for a moment about why I misfiled my tax extension. Melty Jello brain aside, bad software design almost cost my little family $2,500. Background: When I’m not wrestling a one-year-old into...
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