July 2004

stop and start programming

July 23, 2004

in Tech

Sometimes it makes more sense to just stop flogging the darn code. I had been working on a moblog script for a while, with somewhat disastrous results (if you’ve been seeing wierd orphan posts titled “this is fierce cat” you’ve been stumbling on the detritus of my experiments). The more I poked at it the [...]

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Misbehaving has a good misbehaving.net: interview with Ellen Spertus, a Mills College professor on sabbatical at Google. Ellen wrote a paper called “Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?” while she was at MIT. As a girl geek I had never thought much about WHY there are so few women in computing; that was [...]

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Its days like this I think I could really make a habit of being unemployed. I came into town to have lunch with a friend, and then I did some shopping and some banking and some other errands. And then I stopped in at my local cafe and got an iced latte. Its about 90 [...]

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site update

July 19, 2004

in Meta

I finally got around to fixing the web feeds for this blog. Down in the lower left you now have a choice of your favourite flavor of web feed (RSS 1.0, 2.0 or atom), and all of them are finally full text (yay!). A side effect of this however is that if you are a [...]

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delicious bookmarking

July 19, 2004

in Reviews, Tech

A couple of weeks back I asked about bookmark managers. In addition to del.icio.us and hyperlinkomatic, which I mentioned in that post, a couple people also pointed me at furl and spurl. From the research I did it appeared that each of these tools had major strengths, but none of them had all the features [...]

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