I don’t respond to most of the weblog postings that Halley Suitt writes about women in general. I do think she tends to promote stereotypes as often as not. However, I also think that sometimes she breaks stereotypes by presenting the concept that women can be many things and still be womanly or even girly […]
Day: October 28, 2004
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From the Underworld comes the Troll
Recovered from the Wayback Machine (Insert your favorite mental image of troll here) Introducing the troll We all know what a weblogging troll is; it’s the person, man or woman, who writes a comment or comments in post after post trying to pick a fight with one or more members of a comment thread. This […]
I had volunteered for TechWatch because Missouri is one of the states that had contested election results in 2000 and several of the counties are using the electronic voting system. I heard that they needed experienced tech people, especially people familiar with PHP and MySQL. One of the emails I received was a call for someone […]
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Correction
Recovered from the Wayback Machine Excuse me. The Delta Airlines flight attendant was not fired for blogging. She was fired for posting photos of herself in a rather provocative pose, wearing her uniform, on one of her company’s planes. She was fired for posting the photo, and that specific photo I have no doubt – not for […]
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Following on the theme
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Following on the theme of how we can have a lovely time in London, thanks to RDF and the seman…ooops! Semantic Web, rdfdata.org has pointed to another set of RDF data related to travel: OpenGuides . According to the site, OpenGuides is a network of free, community-maintained “wiki” city guides to which anyone […]