The Days Are Just Packed     
The ongoing saga of David D. Levine's writing and other adventures.

I'm a geek, fan, and writer who lives in Portland, Oregon. For more information about me, please see my web page. If you have questions, comments, or just want to chat, you can send me e-mail. Or you can post a comment on my LiveJournal.

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9/22/05: Chug chug

Took the train to work today, saving gas and getting a little time for writing. Added about 300 words to the space opera folk tale story and edited a bunch of the existing words. Also did some critiques.

And as for that reopened bug? Turned out the submitter wanted to talk to me because the problem was really subtle. It's a mental model problem -- the user has a consistent mental model of what the software is doing, but it doesn't match the software's behavior. It would be easy to say that the user is wrong, but others also have the same incorrect mental model, which means that the software isn't doing enough to educate the user about how the system actually works. I need to find a way to gently persuade the user to think about the problem in the right way. Not yet sure how to do this, but I'm accepting the reopened bug as an indication that something needs to be done.

Tomorrow: off to Foolscap!

Posted 09/22/2005 22:08 [e-mail me] [post comment] [permalink]

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