BurningbirdExpect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and […]
Ducks say hi.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One of the most upbeat, nicest guys in weblogging is Joey deVilla, otherwise known in blogging and P2P circles as AccordionGuy. Joey’s too nice a person to have this kind of problem. Glad am I that he escaped intact, but sorry am I at his disappointment. I’m also thankful for Joey […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The rest of us watch from beyond the fence as the woman moves with her jagged stride into her pain as if into a slow race. We see her body in motion but hear no sounds, or we hear sounds but no language; or we know it is not a […]
See what I did? I got back into the discussion of women in technology and women in technical conferences, and I didn’t want to. Not again. But I saw a few trigger words and bammo, there I was, back into the fray. Bad self. Bad, bad self. Too few women in technology and speaking at […]