BurningbirdAn older woman with a cricky knee and tired faced, but with a twinkle in her eye and a sashay in her hips, was walking along a path one day when she was faced with a fork in the road. She looked down the first path from the fork but all she could see was […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Some discussion recently about the new backchannels that are appearing at technical conferences. If you’re not familiar with the term, in this case it means that the people in the room are communicating with each other on an IRC channel while the presentation or talk is happening. Liz Lawley started an invitation […]
I wasn’t going to talk about backchannels, except I wanted to address a comment directly to Mark Pilgrim. I would send him an email, but he disregards them, and he doesn’t have comments. Mark, labeling people’s comments as hysterical because you don’t agree with them– or more likely because we’re part of a group of people who […]
I once wrote about being a ‘powderpuff’ hydroplane racer a long time ago. A powderpuff race was where all the guys let us girls use their great big boats to race each other, a fun time for us, an anxious time for them. When women started racing all the time, the powderpuff races were eliminated, […]
here was a meme floating around recently about taking photos of where you weblog. Where I weblog is where I write and where I live, other than when running around on errands, traveling, or hiking. My office is in my bedroom, and on the second floor of a townhouse in a nice multi-dwelling complex in […]