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Off to Oxford

I’m leaving for Oxford this afternoon; haven’t had much time for blogging in the last few days, what with recovering from the Berlin trip and getting ready for this one. Not to mention coping with an extremely clingy toddler, who gets jealous of Mummy’s laptop, and the phone, and anyone who dares get in between [...]

2007 07 19 Family Comments (3)

Thank You

To the anonymous reader of my blog who bought books on Amazon using my associates link, thank you! Not so much for the few cents it brought me but for the fact that it means you thought enough of what I wrote to check out the books and spend your own money to get a [...]

2007 06 26 Books Comments (0)

Papers and Slides

When I was chairing the XML Conference, one of the things I tried very hard to convince speakers to do was to write up their talks as proceedings, and not just use slides. The main reason for that was that 6 months after giving a talk, oftentimes the speakers can’t figure out what they meant [...]

2007 06 24 Comments (3)

Saturday Reading

If you’re looking for something to cheer up a grey day, leave you shaking your head about some people’s behaviour, and generally entertain you, try this story about a DVD-renting outfit’s exchanges with a lawyer. So far I’ve only read a few of the sections, but they’re priceless (a lawyer who copies the other side [...]

2007 06 23 Comments (0)

Single-Gender Groups

Darren had a post praising the idea of Single-Gender Groups. I find that very problematic, and here’s why.
Darren’s main point is that women and men communicate differently. Personally I’ve found more differences in communication style in different countries; I’ve lived in (in chronological order, and only counting places I’ve lived in for more than five [...]

2007 06 15 Comments (5)

Tech Women

Tim pointed me at the article on devchix about barriers women face in tech communities; it’s certainly sparked a lot of interest and reactions out there.
My reaction was two-fold: one was to think “is that how most women are?” To understand that, you have to remember that I’ve spent my entire life past the age [...]

2007 06 14 Comments (8)