Category Archive for: ‘Announcements’
“A Sword Called Rhonda” Now Available as an E-Book
“Hey, Karma,” Rhonda the sword whined, “I need to go, like, shopping.” She hung from the wall of my small home in what used to be suburban Palo Alto. Being far away didn’t help. I could hear her just as clearly as if I’d held …
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Kepler’s Now Has Online Ordering
Last year, when Kepler’s closed, they took the online ordering down, too. I’m glad to say that they now have online ordering again. I loved being able to look things up before going to the store.
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Be Dope Blast from the Past
One of my all-time favorite Be Dope articles (about life at Be, Inc.) can be found here. BE DOPE NEWS (BDN) Tim Self, Be’s vice-president of product marketing, ceased to exist today in a freak accident involving the BeOS port of Squeak, a popular Smalltalk …
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Kepler’s Reopening
I helped out at the Kepler’s re-opening today, checking supplies at the registers before opening and working info desk after. I can’t even remember how many special orders I took. Initially, they were going to have me help at the membership table, but there were …
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Current Availability: available, please contact me at deirdre at deirdre dot net. present Consultant, Virtual.net, Sunnyvale, California Developing applications for clients using Ruby on Rails. 2002-present Volunteer, Artistic Solutions, Inc., San Jose, California Designed, using WebObjects (Java) and MySQL, a database for scheduling people for …
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Caught with my Ribbons
Hah, I was just Technorati surfing the BayCon tags and found a photo of me on Sunday with my entirely too-long set of badge ribbons. I am amused.
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SF/F of Color
Bill Humphries over on whump.com posted a message about the Carl Brandon Society needing some web development help. I think it’s a fine idea. I’d lend a hand myself, but the problem domain for what I’m now working on for BayCon and the problem domain …
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