BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. According to Techcrunch, the winning team of hackers at Yahoo’s HackDay was an all woman team. The project was a mobile computing device that one carries in one’s handbag or pack, which is a camera integrated with a pedometer that takes pictures every few steps, which it then posts it to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My roommate wanted to see Johnson before it closed so I took him on Saturday, stopping by Elephant Rocks on the way home. The Ameren proposal for restoring the park has been posted and accepted, and work starts on Monday. The people that visited the park one last time on Saturday were […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Despite temperatures this coming week into the 90’s and potentially breaking all records, we are into fall and our best color should be coming out in the next two or three weeks. Now is when I need to get into my car and get the fall color photos I’ve been […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There was a comment at Yegge’s post about good Agile, bad Agile that caught my eye: To the people who complained that because they have other priorities besides programming (families, hobbies, etc) they’ve been lumped in a “lesser programmers” category I can only say this: if you have other priorities besides programming, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A couple of items surfaced recently about the lack of women in science and technology, including a NYTimes op-ed piece rejecting the recent study about women in sciences and another weblogger writing about the importance of having women as role models (via Sour Duck. The latter, in particular, caught my attention because when I was studying science […]