Julie Lerman is doing a phenomenal job of taking on the discussion about women and technology. She has a web site with references, and also brought this up in a recent article where she was honored as .NET Rock Star (It’s funny, but Julie was also angry when Microsoft came out with .NET. She got over her anger. I turned […]
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Just writing
A month or two ago, Steve at LanguageHat pointed out a New York show consisting of Art Deco book bindings by Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler. I was mesmerized at the beauty of the bindings, and the concept that book binding could actually be considered an art form. I’m not an arts and crafts type of person. I don’t […]
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Grammar God
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today it got close to 80 degrees (it’s still 70, at 9pm at night), and this is only the beginning of April. So many plants blooming that the air is perpetually perfumed. I took the grammar test. I hate to break it to the neighborhood but… You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission […]
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Apps behaving badly
I have had a strong writer’s block this last month, which has manifested itself as writing to the weblog. As contrary as this seems, what this means is that instead of focusing on the writing I need to do to make a living, I’ve been puttering around here. Unless ya’ll decide to chip in and […]
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Unbelievable
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today it got close to 80 degrees (it’s still 70, at 9pm at night), and this is only the beginning of April. So many plants blooming that the air is perpetually perfumed. I took the grammar test. I hate to break it to the neighborhood but… You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission […]