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Diversity Technology

Women in computing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In the comments attached to the Girlism post, an Assistant Professor of Computer Technology, Dr. Elizabeth Lane Lawley mentioned effort at Carnegie-Mellon to understand why there is such a large discrepancy based on gender in the computer sciences. I found a web site devote to this project and have been spending some time reading publications associated […]

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Writing

Real things

Enough tilting at windmills. In the quiet of the night, when the fires cool and tongues still, one can listen. Loren’s To find out what is true and About the size of a fist. Jonathon’s For a Dancer. No further comment. Go read. Awake to understand you are not dreaming It is not seaming just to be this way […]

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Diversity

Shutting down the conversation

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. What’s particularly difficult about writing something such as my posting Girlism? is seeing the gentlemen in the community linking to Halley’s post, but not my refutation. Huzzahs for Halley’s refreshing honesty and blowing the lid off the terrible games we women play. Perpetuating the myth by controlling the links, and thereby controlling […]

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XHTML/HTML

RSS push back

I guess I won’t be finding any interest in my SORSS syndication format because the weblogging kingdom is now circling about XHTML as a syndication format. In other words, publish your page as XHTML and let aggregators scrape it. It looks as if Anil Dash started the discussion with a well written suggestion: My new syndication format is called […]

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RDF

Newest RDF goodies and challenges

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I spent the last several days reading through the six RDF documents currently under final review. During the last few days I acted the minor irritant to some members of the W3C RDF Working Group, primarily getting clarification on some confusing or complex aspects of the documents. I also spent […]