Category Archive for: ‘Notes’

• Postgres, ugh

  I’m fairly tolerant of things that have fiddly bits for setting stuff up. However, I’d had a postgres install that had previously not been All There ™, so it was more fiddly than it had to be. Anyhow, I’m tired of arguing with it. I …

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• London pic

  The picture I best felt summed up London today:

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• Westercon in Brief

  Too many panels, but all of them good. Three more tomorrow. Whee! Westercon 60 will be in San Jose. Page by moi, though I’m not done yet and I’ve changed part of the color scheme. Calgary is a neat city. Westin Calgary is a nice …

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• Eye Ouch

  I noticed that my eye was dry and scratchy last night. What I didn’t realize at the time was that this wasn’t just another case of “add eye drops,” but rather a rather I’d scratched my cornea. This time, it wasn’t the eye prone to …

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• Midsommar, 43 Things

  The flowers at the top of my blog were from last year’s Midsommar festival. We’re going to

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• Hang Your Bird Feeder High

  From my father comes this sage advice: always hang your bird feeder high.

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• A Point of Clarification

  I received a slightly snarky but well-intentioned email about my last blog entry. To clarify, the vast majority of men in the Linux community are fine. As I’ve pointed out before, men are overwhelmingly the early adopters in technology. Therefore, I don’t find it any …

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• Sexism and the Linux Community

  Anarchogeek makes some good points about sexism in the Linux community. Well, I’ve occasionally written about sexism in the Linux community since starting with Linux in 1998. Elise Shapiro and I co-founded BayLinuxChix, which worked pretty well as a group until the CoffeeNet went away. …

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• Typography humor

  One of my favorite all-time “corporate answers” from the way-back machine. Subject: Medu Neter From: Anne Ogborn Sent on: Thursday, July 18, 1996 23:35:38 Message-ID: 199607182038.NAA24654@post-awful.apple.com And one last question, I understand that Apple can handle scripts that go left to right or right to …

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• Restless

  Today, I could NOT sit still at work. Had a great day, work zipped by. I think a lot of it is being happy about having finally seen to The Dreaded Site Migration, despite some of the issues with rewrite tools. I’ve discovered a lot …

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