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Technology

Ajax Myth Busting

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Frontforge has a set of Ajax evaluation criteria that look, at first glance, quite good until you drill down into each item. Since the page is created in such a way that I can’t right-mouse button copy text in order to make quotes (and breaks in Safari to boot), you’ll have […]

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Weblogging

Bye Bye BB Gun

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As I just detailed at my Just Shelley site, I’m ‘rolling’ my three weblogs back into one and making various other changes. I’ll still write on the topics I’ve covered here, but in one place. It should make keeping up with comments simpler. None of my other sites on specific […]

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Weblogging

Disturbing Comments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I didn’t uncover this comment thread until tonight. My ears, feet, and most other body parts should have been burning because it was several men talking about me. I don’t find it flattering. What’s disappointing is that each time we bring issues of equality for women to the fore, women’s views are […]

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Diversity

Yeah, quality

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to Ethan, via Radioactive Banana, a report on women in the sciences and engineering disciplines at universities: Forty years ago, women made up only 3 percent of America’s scientific and technical workers, but by 2003 they accounted for nearly one-fifth. In addition, women have earned more than half of the bachelor’s degrees awarded […]

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Events of note Photography

Balloons

I went to the Forest Park Balloon Glow tonight. I didn’t get many good pictures–it was very crowded. My roommate went with me, and it was nice to have the company. We got lost afterward because our usual route home was blocked. I picked out photos that I thought would tell the story of the […]