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‘ware strangers
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 […]
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On Poetry and Pictures
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 […]
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Habitual blogging
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 […]
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Ladylike speakers
Meg Hourihan wrote a comment in Liz’s post about her own speaking experiences, and that her main reason for doing so is to increase the presence of women speaking at these conferences. I commend her for this, but her words did trigger a second bugaboo I have about women at conferences – we tend to be ’safe’. Or […]