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most frequently looked up words on NYTimes

Some are respectable; appurtenances, sumptuary, peroration, bildungsroman etc. But feckless, swine, banal and glut are a bit disappointing. Must try harder. nytimeswords.pdf

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SharePoint search: Inside the Index book ‘review’

Inside the Index and Search Engines is 624 pages of lovely SharePoint search info. It is the sort of book that sets me apart from my colleagues. I was delighted when it arrived, everyone else was...

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using your clients language

“Admit it. Ours can be an insular profession. As much as most of us think we communicate simply and effectively, we often don’t. Why? I think it’s because we’re sometimes overly concerned about how...

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working on a new job title

I’m probably going to get a new job title. And it won’t be UX-anything, so don’t worry that I’ve had a change of heart on that. I don’t use my IA title much within the organisation. The web team get it...

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build your own job title

In the old days job titles were created by grabbing a bit of Latin/Greek and adding ‘er’ or ‘or’ to it. The suffix just means “one who does”. Something of the bits of Latin /Greek are obvious, some...

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is UX neo-conceptual art?

So good friends in the UX community have expressed concerns about some of my slightly less than impressed references to “user experience”.  There was the whole penguin thing. And the using your clients...

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desecration in a good cause?

My basic librarian-ness is always a bit shocked by finding writing in books. But this is a bit different: At first I suspected a personally prudish but meticulous scribbler. But there’s a more obvious...

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treen: the woodsman’s miscellaneous category

As a classification geek, married to a tree geek I was delighted to discover treen which Wikipedia says is “a generic name for small handmade functional household objects made of wood”. I may start...

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why I like free-text fields in surveys

I’ve been doing quite a bit of surveying in recent weeks and I’ve been challenged over my liking for free-text fields. My colleague/partner-in-crime was worried that the data would be too...

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mapping Fighting Fantasies

I found a folder down the back of a bookshelf. It was the shelf full of Fighting Fantasy books. The first Fighting Fantasy book that Catherine & I bought was The Forest of Doom from the church...

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