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Technology

Save Dr. Dotty from the Quicksand

Copy from the Wayback Machine Archive. Dr. Dotty is exploring in the jungle and accidently walks into quicksand. The object of the game is, of course, to save Dr. Dotty. The Save Dr. Dotty from the Quicksand games are a variation of the old paper game “Hangmans’s Bluff”. The object of the game is to […]

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Technology

All you need is PHP

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sam Ruby says life changed for him, for the better, when he discovered PHP: Later this month I turn 41. For me, the last three felt like ten. In a good way. … What changed it all for me? PHP I’m writing the first release of Post Content in PHP, so I’m […]

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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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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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Technology

Today’s Unix: New all over again

Originally published at O’Reilly onlamp.com, recovered from the Wayback Machine. It used to be that Unix was for the geeks, while the rest of the world used less command-intensive, and usually less powerful, operating systems such as Windows or the Mac OS. Even with the advent of native GUIs such as the X Window system, […]