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My pilot interviews are throwing up lots of things that didn’t happen last year. I guess, as I’m adding about 25% to my knowledge of this technique, that that is only to be expected.<\/p>\nMy pilot interviews are throwing up lots of things that didn’t happen last year. I guess, as I’m adding about 25% to my knowledge of this technique, that that is only to be expected.<\/p>\n
Gill sent me web links and attachments – thus demonstrating that you can use these interviews in that way if you want. She also replied to my questions from a laptop in Canada, thus demonstrating clearly that the interviews are neither time- nor place-dependent. (The photo shows where she emailed me from. I downloaded it from her Flickr site, and it’s copyright Gill.)<\/p>\n
So that’s the good stuff. On the other hand, I filed one of Sali’s answers in the wrong place, and then thought she hadn’t answered so sent her another copy of the question and then found she had answered so sent her another question. Then the OU server went down. So now I’m not clear whether she got fed up with me messing things up and decided to stop participating, or whether she did get back to me – but Outlook didn’t pick it up. So that’s annoying. Specially bad timing because now it’s awkward to email her without looking as if I’m nagging her. And I don’t want to nag her – if she wants to stop being interviewed that’s fine. On the other hand, if she thinks I’ve just stopped then that’s no good either \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
\u00a0And I’ve been back to look at my Outlook archive of my interviews. It’s lost Martin’s responses to two questions, and a couple of my emails. I can access them via Google Desktop, but otherwise they’re not there. So, again, Martin may have responded and his reply may just be lost in the ether. Luckily, I’ve only sent him that question once, so I’ve just emailed him again to explain what’s happening. Hope he gets back to me, cos we’re up to question seven and it would be good to have a complete interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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