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

roman — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:19:56 +0000

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

roman — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:45:36 +0000

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

roman — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:57:23 +0000

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

roman — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:52:21 +0000

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 …

roman — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:33:04 +0000

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

roman — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:13:37 +0000

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! :)

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New Euro Language

roman — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:47:48 +0000

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”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, ples pas on to oza pepl

Forwarded from an uncited source.

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a meta-riddle

roman — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:10:03 +0000

There was an old story. Two brothers, Juha and Jukka, both either always said truth or both always lied – but we do not know which was the case. Somebody asked them, whether they are married or not. Juha answered that at least one of them is married. Jukka then either answered that he is married, or he answered that he is not married – we do not know anymore, the story got twisted later, so nowadays there are two versions around. EDIT: version 1: Jukka said he is married, version 2: Jukka said he is not married.

Which of the versions is correct? We know for sure that, before garbling the story, the problem about what is the marital status of the brothers was correctly solved.

—
Freely adapted from Raymond Smullyan. I am thinking about getting some of his books…

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