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Diversity

To Google, pregnancy is evil

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Google’s motto is “Do no Evil”. We have to assume the company includes getting pregnant as an act of evil, according to a recently filed job discrimination lawsuit. ZDNet writes: Christina Elwell, who was promoted to national sales director in late 2003, alleges her supervisor began discriminating against her in […]

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Burningbird

Moving House

In the interests of uncomplicating my life, I’m moving all RDF related posts back to Burningbird in categories related to RDF, Semantic Web, and so on. I’ve redirected the syndication feeds for this site to pick up a feed to the RDF category, for those only interested in RDF-related material. Thanks, and see you at the Bird.

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RDF Social Media Weblogging

Really simplifying syndication

My move to simplify my syndication has not met with unqualified success. The folks at Bloglines were able to delete all of the many different syndication feeds for my site. Unfortunately, rather than move existing subscriptions over, they just deleted them, which means about 250 people are now no longer subscribed to my site. This […]

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Internet

Still wired

I did not cancel my internet connection on Monday, after all. I needed to keep it up for some work I’m doing this week, but planned on canceling it at month end. However, I had a nice conversation with a person from Charter Communications today and we worked out an equitable solution to our existing […]

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Diversity

Follow-up to When we are Needed

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The discussion following my posting of When We are Needed last week split into two different directions: one focused on the discussion of women, competition, and need; one focused more on the tech job market in this country and the factors that are driving both men and women out of the field. […]