On Sandra Gabriele's HuCo Colloquium talk

On November 20, 2009, Sandra Gabriele presented a talk entitled Visual Differentiation in Look-alike Medication Names: Evaluating Design in Context. With regards to errors in a hospital setting, Sandra Gabriele's design background has allowed her to look into how the design of medication labels may affect the frequency of errors. The paper on which the… Continue reading On Sandra Gabriele's HuCo Colloquium talk

On Paula Simons's talk

On November 19, at noon in the Senate Chamber in the historic Arts building at the UofA, Paula Simons spoke about one of her most influential Comparative Literature professors, Henry Kriesel. I was fascinated by her telling of his story: I never really knew much about him before, though I had attended several lectures named… Continue reading On Paula Simons's talk

GIS Day summary

If you hadn't noticed, I have begun to blog about various academic and semi-academic talks that I have had the pleasure of attending. While, yes this began as a course assignment, I have determined that I enjoy doing so, therefore I think I'll continue as a practice — though I likely won't blog every single… Continue reading GIS Day summary

Addresses please?

So I'm about to start the annual Christmas card tradition, and it strikes me, yet again that I don't necessarily have accurate address information for everyone to whom I want to write. Indeed, a number of people have moved into new abodes, some in new cities, provinces, states and countries. Others, I have no idea… Continue reading Addresses please?

My time is more valuable than this, really it is.

Instead of being productive and actually getting started on my php homework like I was supposed to be doing, I got stuck. Why? Because my wampserver isn't operating properly. It's supposed to open a page at http://localhost (essentially opening its www directory) but it won't open this page. All the problems I can think of… Continue reading My time is more valuable than this, really it is.

On Michael Olsson's talk

Today, Michael Olsson gave an excellent talk about Shakespeare, or rather about a study that he completed through interviews of 36 participants from Canada, Finland and the UK, who were all involved as actors, directors, designers or dramaturages with Shakespeare productions. Each semi-structured interview lasted on average about two hours but ranged in length from… Continue reading On Michael Olsson's talk