Monthly Archives: February 2009

On Chimps

February 21, 2009 – 9:23 pm

Here’s an interesting article on the perception of African American as apes even today: The researchers consistently discovered a black-ape association even if the young adults said they knew nothing about its historical connotations. The connection was made only with African American faces; the paper’s third study failed to find an ape association with other [...]

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Performance Testing – A Simple Plan

February 10, 2009 – 5:02 pm

I was asked to outlline what I’d expect someone to decide before they started a performance test exercise. A quick look at StickyMinds shows this document, which looks very good. It is, however, 8 pages long, which is about 7.5 pages longer than I need if my target audience is going to bother with it. [...]

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Quiet

February 9, 2009 – 6:36 pm

Boy it’s quiet round here, eh? I am snowed under by a combination of work, domesticity and online flash games. Oh, and apathy. But mostly flash games. I’m currently pondering switching over to a somewhat longer post once per week. I’ve the feeling this would be a lot less work than either a) my previous [...]

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