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By Nana | January 4, 2006 | Topics: General | 9 Comments »
How Serious Is This?
This morning, I received an email from a friend, saying this: “Thank you for your congratulations on my analysis [this is the only sentence I understood in your message!]…. but I suppose you sent me this message by mistake?” Of course, I sent it by mistake, I should have sent it to one of my researchers who is working on the 2. experiment. Ok, this was just for a starter… but read this;)):
This morning (again), I wanted to pick up my mobile to call my mum. Then I realised it was nowhere around to be found. Not on the bed, not in the bathroom, neither on my desk. Then I wanted to be smart and find it with my land line. I called my mobile number, turning my head around my apartment and trying to locate the bip sound and the vibrations. There was no ringing sound but instead a voice ANSWERED MY phone (not only my call;)). I almost fainted out of surprise … and this very polite voice said: “Hello, are you calling to come picking up your phone?” I managed to answer a question with a question: “Is my mobile lost like *really* lost?” Then, this very nice person told me a story of how he and his wife had found my mobile yesterday afternoon outside nearby where I live. Since then, they were waiting for the owner to call them. I quickly ran to the address they gave me and on the way I bought a chocolate box Merci to express my appreciation to them.
Only now I am beginning to realise, how lucky I really was that such honest people found my mobile and returned it to me. I could have easily ended up less lucky and without it right now, probably whining over it as it is quite new.
However, it really makes me wonder how serious it is, that I only realised I had lost my mobile in the same moment as I found out somebody had found it. Am I losing myself? It is absolutely no wonder this happened, as I work almost all the time and sleep four hours a night in these days. When this experiment is over, I will surely take a break. Without any bad conscious!
Thank you, very honest people from Grafenauerjeva ulica 25!! I will not forget this.
By Nana | December 12, 2005 | Topics: General, Personal, PhD | No Comments »
One Year Old Baby
This blog has just turned one and I completely forgot about it. Could it have something to do with the fact that my ten researchers and I are in the middle of 2. experiment for PhD, this time mixing web surveys and online focus groups. Gotta rush to the class …. later!
By Nana | December 9, 2005 | Topics: General | No Comments »
Been working all days …
… yeh I know. Lousy excuse for not blogging. But it’s so much true these days. If I ever had used ‘I am oh so busy’ excuse for not blogging before, now it’s for real. I am working nites, I never did before. I lack time so much that I even skip my morning habit of reading all my favorite blogs. I took a moment today tho to discover that Michael changed Carniola’s looks - wow, Michael! Anyway, I am busy with something extremely pleasant for a change: my PhD. The ‘mixed-method experiment’ is in a full run and I can’t wait to discover what comes out of it. I am keeping the details for myself so far. I am gonna be presenting the preliminary results at Cambridge conference in July.
Things that also occupy my mind lately:
-what the heck is wrong with my laptop (ventilator on all the time);
-when am gonna be playing with my cute nephews again, I am starting to miss them;
-my friend is getting married this Saturday (my first friend getting married, mind I found out three days ago, cos my mum didn’t tell me about her snail mail invitation), so what should I buy as a wedding present;
-(no,I am not worried what am gonna be wearing, tho);
-been busy finding a flatshare for my London summer stay, quite successfully I dare say;
-trying to prepare my brain to the idea of writing up my Oxford paper, deadline approaching fast;
-daydreaming about various things;
-being worried about one specific thing.
Gnite;))
By Nana | April 18, 2005 | Topics: Conferences, General, PhD | No Comments »
“Mirror Mirror On the Wall …
… what is the world’s, largest, most varied, most participatory, most controversial encyclopedia of them all?”, Britannica asking its mirror, grinning while waiting for an answer. The mirror: Erm …… hmmmm ….hmh … WIKIPEDIA. Little piece of statistics: as of November 2004 there were about 28.000 Wikipedians, 109 languages and 380.000 articles in it’s archives.
And a piece of gossip: its co-creator, Larry Sanger, is a professional epistemologist, a devout doubter, believing only the things that he could directly perceived or that could be logically derived from what he perceived. But eventually he began to realize that some truths can not be observed, and this pragmatic view even became the focus of his dissertation. Anyway, he left Wikipedia in 2002, party because the funding for his position ran out and partly because the fractiousness and nasty revert wars among Wikipedians themselves. Now he’s a lecturer at Ohio State University.
By Nana | December 25, 2004 | Topics: General, Tech | No Comments »
Wiki With Social Computing Resources
was recently created by Lab for Social Computing at Rochester Institute of Technology. This wiki’s intention is to be kind of starting point to learn about social computing and social software as well as gathering point for researchers interested in topics like weblogs, internet relay chats, social networking and content sharing sites. They also created a database of researchers, interested in these topics and you can add yourself in. Everything is still pretty much under construction so …. you might have to look in.
Otherwise my day was quite monotonous … sitting at the desk, finishing the first RIS report and again - crying from laughing so hard. Ian sent me a link to a song, the so called Hokey Cokey song. Well, Ian just wanted to say OK and he used Hokey Cokey instead and I immediately began to interrogate him. I was told it was a silly children’s song/dance. Then I got that link into my mailbox, I listened to it and …. tears were running down my cheek … from laughing sooo haaard.
By Nana | December 21, 2004 | Topics: General, Tech | No Comments »
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