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  • Presentation plan and class handout

    Here’s the quick plan I came up with last night for the presentation I gave today at LCTTP. It’s might come off as jumbled as I wrote it in the middle of the night, but I thought I’d post it for archival sake. LCTTP interview lesson plan [PDF] Likewise, here’s the handout that I used…

  • The LCTTP interview went really well

    Today I had the second interview with MSU LCTTP. I think it went well. I gave a presentation on usability testing for web sites; I tried to provide the context of where user testing fits into the big picture of web site development, then I actually ran a quick user test to demonstrate how to…

  • Second interview with MSU LCTTP

    I have a second interview set up with the people at MSU‘s LCTTP. The position is for an instructor position, teaching mostly web development skills with an emphasis on database-driven web sites. I’m really looking forward to the interview. They asked me to give a twenty minute presentation on one of the following: Fundamentals of…

  • Field-tested veteran Web Professional.

    Black belt in xhtml, css, and rapid iterative web production Special-Ops duty in the full gamut of web human interface design tactics Guerilla fighter in web site/app usability. ROI! Hu-Rah! Top-secret clearance. I build the stuff you don’t get to look at. Field-commander on reconnaissance and tactical-strike web missions. Scrambled and led teams of highly…

  • Cold calling for jobs

    I just cold-called Tec-Ed, Inc., inquiring about a position. Tec-Ed is a usability company in Ann Arbor. I didn’t know they existed until I saw them listed on the Usability Professionals Association web site. Unfortunately, during the call the person I spoke with mentioned they had just hired someone last week. Dang. Here’s hoping they’re…

  • The U.P., land of penguins and icebergs.

    I was just eating dinner with Lila and she asked where I was born, as we had been talking about grandparents and how Chey and I are the children of Lila’s grandparents. “Way up north,” I said. She uses that phrase to tell people where Grandpa Ron and Grandma Donna live. Lila hunched her shoulders…

  • Yet another interview with Sircon

    That’s right, I have another interview scheduled with Sircon for the end of the week. I’ve lost count of how many this makes. Seven? This is kind of absurd. I’m trying to look at it with a mixture of humor and undestanding (It’s not like I’ve just interviewed for a single position; it’s been more…

  • color shift

    Bear with me. I’m uploading a half-finished stylesheet. Gotta run and something else for a bit. Should be mostly readable, but gonna be some contrast issues until I get back to this.

  • Eva’s mystique with the iBook

    The girls have this uncanny ability to undermine Chey’s iBook. A few months ago, Lila was “working” on Chey’s computer while I was reading a book. When she was done working, she had managed to move the Library directory from /Users/cheygranroth/ to /Users/cheygranroth/Documents. The tricky part was neither Chey nor I realized what had happened…

  • Blasted squirrels

    While watering our little garden today, I noticed that the strawberry plants were conspicuously missing. Yesterday I saw a big fat squirrel sitting in our garden in the midst of the strawberry plants. Now, I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but I’m pretty sure Lila, Eva, and Chey would not have scrounged through the…