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The designer’s “I think the controls are intuitive”-claim

Posted in Uncategorized on August 12th, 2011 by roman

When I hear or read that line, it’s like a red flag in front of a bull, a warning light. It’s translation is: “Hello user experience, haven’t seen you for a while, but I got it right.”

The best addition to it is: “…and no manual is needed.”

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Deadline extensions, everywhere

Posted in Uncategorized on March 31st, 2010 by roman

It seems like every conference, workshop, and meeting now sends out deadline extensions (including the events organized by us). Can the financial crisis be the cause that there is not enough submissions?

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Media fee replacing TV-fee in Finland

Posted in Uncategorized on April 24th, 2009 by roman

Starting 2011, the TV-fee should be replaced by a Media-fee, proposed yesterday a work-group dealing with financing the Finnish YLE (Public broadcast company). Instead of the present way where the TV-owners pay about 225 euro annually, next time all households –regardless do they own a device that can receive TV signal– will pay about 175 euro. This means virtually everybody: all students, seniors, or companies.

As you can imagine, there is some discussion and resistance. What do you think about this new tax?

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The golden advice for writing a dissertation

Posted in research, Uncategorized on October 3rd, 2008 by roman

For the opponent and for the wholeness of the defense, it is important to show that the opponent read the whole thesis carefully. It is then a good idea that the candidate leaves at least one obvious typo in the manuscript.

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One day, I’ll be a …

Posted in banana, edtech, Uncategorized on July 3rd, 2006 by roman

wanna-be-phd chat

skype me next time you want to give me a call, thanks.

Posted in life, Uncategorized on April 3rd, 2006 by roman

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6056325.html

I think there will be a lot of controversy still coming up, anyway, VoIP is not only safe but it’s also cheap. So skype me please! :)


Call me!

New Euro Language

Posted in banana, internet, politics, Uncategorized on March 31st, 2006 by roman

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.
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