Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dori Smith pointed to a Kottke post where he took on several conferences and their lack of diversity. I find this topic lately to be exhausting, when one considers we’ve been laboring on this issue for several years. I’d be more sanguine about the lack of women speakers at conferences if most people […]
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Know me well
The weather is warmer and with it a lightness of spirit. Today, in the email, I received links to two stories the senders knew I’d be interested in. The first was to the story about Frances Allen being the first woman to win the prestigious Turing Award: Allen spent her entire career at IBM, winning several of […]
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Do it in your sleeve
Via Bad Astronomy the video Why don’t we do it in our sleeves. Sneeze, that is. I didn’t know a health video could be so entertaining.
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Cleaning House
I’m wanting to cut my online costs, including moving my account to a smaller one. Another cost saving move is to eliminate most of my domains. Most don’t have any page rank, but a few do. One I’ve offered to someone, but I have a couple of others that might make good weblogging homes for […]
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Steve Jobs High
Invited to speak on technology and education, Steve Jobs decides to let loose on teachers unions of all things, as the thing most harmful for schools. Not once does he exhibit any understanding of the differences between unions, teachers associations, and the concept of tenure as a separate entity, he blasts away making the statement about how […]