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  • Adventures with impersonal recruitment agents

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    Adventures with impersonal recruitment agents: No, “Hello Bernard, how are you?”. “No, nice to meet you.” Opening line: “Good afternoon, Your profile looks well aligned to some requirements I have.” Translates to: “You look like a 2×4 plank. I need a 2×4 wooden plank.” — Bernard Tyers (@bernardtyers) August 29, 2018

  • Internet Freedom Festival 2018 – Introverts meetup

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    Details Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Time: 14:00 – 15:00 Room: Patio Naranjos Duration: 1 hour Description (From the IFF Schedule) “This meetup brings together individuals that identify as introverts. Meetups are one hour informal events focused on allowing people to meet and greet.” I’ve volunteered to lead the Internet Freedom Festival Introvert meetup at this years IFF.…

  • Using Apple Magic mouse with Ubuntu sometimes causes unwanted behaviours

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    One of the main annoyances with my new Ubuntu machine is not so much the fault of Ubuntu, or the Dell hardware – but the lack of a decent pointing device. As much as I complained originally, I like my Apple Magic Mouse. My muscle memory has formed, ergonomically it’s (reasonably) comfortable. So annoying! The…

  • Can’t extract rar files on Ubuntu?

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    I’m trying to extract a RAR file (a type of compressed file) on my new Ubuntu machine. I use the built-in archive manager application and keep getting this error message:           Originally I thought it was a problem with the file (maybe corrupt), but after doing some DuckDuckGo’ing I found a…

  • Useful Gnome extensions for UX professionals

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    As I wrote before, I’m conducting an experiment of working with only Open Source software in my day-to-day User Centred Design profession. One of the good things with OS X software was the abundance of useful, single use applications which helped in work. Using Linux, this shouldn’t be impossible to achieve either. The flavour of…

  • Slack and government

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    Anyone working in, or following digital services in (any) government, is probably aware of the use of Slack ((https://www.slack.com/)) as an ephemeral instant messaging service by people working in digital services. If they’re aware of that, then they’re also probably aware of the Freedom Of Information request recently submitted to the UK governments Cabinet Office,…

  • The Open Sourced User Centred Designer – Introduction

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    Hello, I’m Bernard I’m a user centred designer. I work mainly as a user researcher and interaction designer. In my day job, I work in a UK government department. I spend my days mostly doing: user research to build services that are sometimes completely digital, and sometimes a mixture of digital and non-digital interaction design…

  • City Uni talk: User-centred government links

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    Hi everyone! Thank very much for your time yesterday. I really enjoyed visiting City Uni again. I mentioned a lot of different websites and links. If anyone wanted to read more about those thing,  here are some links to the things I mentioned. Home Office Digital Data and Technology If you’re interested in reading more…

  • Seen in India: Biometric staff tracking systems

    Seen in India: Biometric staff tracking systems

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    While we were travelling around in India earlier this year, I saw lots of interesting, fascinating, curious, and worrying things. At the door of a hotel we were staying in in one city, I saw this biometric ((Wikipedia article on Biometrics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometrics)) recognition system by a company called Kanoe Systems ((Kanoe company website http://www.kanoe.com/time-attendance)) who…

  • Léonie Watson talking web APIs at Paris Web

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    Paris Web 2016 I attended Paris Web 2016 last week (more on that later) where Belén Barros Pena and I spoke about our DIY Mobile Usability Testing project. Léonie Watson and Charles McCathieNevile both working with W3C Standards spoke about HTML 5.1 and web APIs. I had a quick chat with Léonie afterwards (in a…