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Weblogging Writing

Trying something new

I’m trying something new: as I finish each book on my recommended and want-to read list, I’m attempting to incorporate a little of the author’s unique style into a few of my weblog postings. With this, I hope to get a better understanding of what I liked or didn’t like about each book. For instance, […]

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Diversity

Jamie and the Reality Test

Regardless of the motives, I think that Jamie Lee Curtis’ recent photo shoot was terrific. She’s showing that in the battle with gravity, gravity ultimately wins. She also shows that it’s time to blow the hell out of our fixation on having perfect bodies. It’s easy to feel beautiful when the world looks at you in approval […]

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Stuff

Focusing on the important stuff

Sure there are starving people in the world, and war, and a lot of pain and suffering and sickness, but hey! It’s time to re-focus back on what’s truly important to Americans: Baseball. I mean, really, stop fretting about the World Summit, and turn off that report about an invasion of Iraq — tomorrow we […]

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Weblogging

Say what?

No, no. I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to rise to this one. I’m still licking my wounds from the last time I let lose with my mouth about “s_x__m”. I’ve learned my lesson. You don’t have to keep hitting this puppy with a rolled up newspaper to make me learn.

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Diversity RDF Technology

Outside even among the outsiders

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Warning: Big time rant. Male/Female thing. Read at own risk. Being a woman trying to find a place among the techie guys isn’t easy, particularly since the areas of technology of interest to me rarely have other women participants. Don’t have to believe me, take a look at the RSS-Dev […]