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Writing

Close, very close

Down to my last few pennies, literally, and half a book to rewrite before my next advance when fortune smiles on the Very Worried: I just got a gig that should last at least a couple of months. Now if I can absorb all the new RDF changes into the book fairly quickly and get […]

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Environment Political

Clean sweep cleans forests

The first environmental impact from November’s Clean Sweep is the Bush Administration’s proposal to: … give managers of the nation’s 155 national forests greater leeway to approve logging and commercial activities with less examination of potential environmental damages. Regional managers are easily influenced by timber interests, who tend to have as much interest in the good of […]

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Diversity Technology

Women in computing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In the comments attached to the Girlism post, an Assistant Professor of Computer Technology, Dr. Elizabeth Lane Lawley mentioned effort at Carnegie-Mellon to understand why there is such a large discrepancy based on gender in the computer sciences. I found a web site devote to this project and have been spending some time reading publications associated […]

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Writing

Real things

Enough tilting at windmills. In the quiet of the night, when the fires cool and tongues still, one can listen. Loren’s To find out what is true and About the size of a fist. Jonathon’s For a Dancer. No further comment. Go read. Awake to understand you are not dreaming It is not seaming just to be this way […]

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Diversity

Shutting down the conversation

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. What’s particularly difficult about writing something such as my posting Girlism? is seeing the gentlemen in the community linking to Halley’s post, but not my refutation. Huzzahs for Halley’s refreshing honesty and blowing the lid off the terrible games we women play. Perpetuating the myth by controlling the links, and thereby controlling […]