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Stuff

Door number three

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today is a sci-fi kind of day, as I place my order at Amazon for the newly-released-on-DVD, This Island Earth and Godzilla – Gojira Deluxe Collector’s Edition. Gojira is a return to the original Godzilla movie, sans Americanization, and I’m really looking forward to seeing this version. Last week I picked up this 12 […]

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Diversity

Museum Piece

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Women have gone to space. Women have led nations. Women have died for their countries. Women have invented, pioneered, and broken barriers and boundaries. They’ve had babies and buried husbands while they did these things, too. And on the eve of the very overdue day when a woman will lead […]

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Diversity

So much fun

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The conference organizer for Office 2.0 has added three more women speakers. Actually, three very impressive women speakers. To address those who think that achieving diversity means giving up quality–you’re a putz. Speaking of putz, Dennis Howlett wrote the following in comments at Robert Scoble’s weblog related to this issue: Sadly to say Robert, […]

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People

Women can be critical of each other

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m coming down with something and weblogging is actually becoming a least interesting thing to do, but I wanted to toss something out…something absolutely mind boggling. Women can be critical of each other. Yes, that’s right: women can be critical of each other. We can be critical, we can be […]

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Diversity

What will work

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Both Tara Hunt and The Head Lemur have written on the Office 2.0 conference and the fact that of the 53 speakers, only one is a woman. Exactly one. This isn’t a conference on esoteric technology where the participants rush out and say, ‘There are no women who do X’, whatever ‘X’ is. This is a […]