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{ Yearly Archives } 2006

Northern Voice Questions

Northern Voice is a small Vancouver conference on blogging, and I’m on the organizing committee. We’re gearing up for the 2007 conference, which we were planning on holding in February, but we’ve run into some issues with the venue. So we’ve come up with a survey to ask people who were thinking of attending NV [...]

Coping with Pregnancy

I found a couple of things very useful for my second pregnancy that I didn’t discover for my first - and thought I should blog them in case they’re useful to anybody else. I’m sure any readers with other ideas will add them - I’ll do another post in a bit about some early babyhood [...]

Bootees

I was a few months pregnant when Tim asked when I was going to knit some bootees (aka booties) for the baby. I wondered why he hadn’t asked for the first child, he answered that he hadn’t known I could knit back then. Fair enough.
So I got some yarn in time for the trip to [...]

Hawaii 2006

We had a family trip to Hawaii (the Big Island) in the last week where I could reasonably fly before I got too big. Mind you, I was still big and bulky and quite glad of being able to float along in the water. I took quite a few photos, but these two are the [...]

Liberty Deployments

It’s good to see analysts writing sentences like “the Liberty specifications are resonating with major IT user organizations” (quoted in an InfoWorld article entitled E-government Group forms within Liberty Alliance). It shows that the Liberty specifications (and not just federation) are being implemented and deployed.
Which brings me to the main point of this posting — [...]

The Wall

The Wall was put up 45 years ago today, an event that seemed to define the Cold War. I lived in Berlin for a few years, starting in 1988; to me the concept of a city belonging to West Germany being in the middle of East Germany surrounded by a system of walls purposefully designed [...]