my daughter and i were watching Social Network when we realised that we were already using Livejournal around the time Zuckerberg apparently started dissing his college girlfriend in his LJ site. it is said that coincidences are God's way of winking at us. i never did like it when someone winks at me.

how easy it’d be to play hookie if i work from this building. i can tell the boss i’m taking the day off because i’m seeing spots. and i’d be able to say it convincingly. (umm.. that sounded funny in my head) http://www.jasonbruges.com/projects/uk-projects/

like a Zen rock and sand garden, only digital.

(this was my contribution to the Takebackthetech's 16 days of action to end violence against women. specifically it was a response to the action point "Challenge stereotypes, Make an avatar." since i can't draw, this is an avatar in narrative form. also this is number 11ty hundred in my looooong list of "projects i wish i have more time/skill/ ( Read more... )

Mathematician and second world war codebreaker Alan Turing took his own life in 1951 after the British government sentenced him to chemical castration for being gay. Today, UK's PM apologises on behalf of his government.

this is what happens when two university-age girls have too much Internet time on their hands. they start shipping sparkly boybands and computer science. it's twisted. the girls are aoimidori, a.k.a. daughter who's still sleeping and her friend kikiam.

computer geeks on my f-list should check this out.

COME JOIN AND PLAY CATCH
C, Java, ASM, PHP and C++
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Even with the weird dream, I had very nice afternoon nap. The first part of the dream now feels disjointed, I remember flashes of images of real people I know in real life. In the dream I work in a bistro. The last part is what stuck, probably because it had a somewhat linear flow. In it I was talking with one of the people who work in the bistro ( Read more... )

I've started dreaming again. The kinds one get during sleep. I think this means something since the last time I had dreams while sleeping was ten years ago ( Read more... )

While digging through the archive of my organisation's site, I found this old piece of writing. I remember writing it as a post to the organisation’s mailing list, but I didn't know that someone thought it worthy of being archived. I was prepared to shudder my way through reading it. I wrote it way back in 1996, when i was just starting to obsess ( Read more... )

The WENT caravan is taking a pit stop today for activities to commemorate the workshop's fifth year anniversary. I'm sitting here inside this small auditorium, listening to symposium speakers discuss about women, power and technology.

As headbint of the training team I was wrangled to deliver the opening remarks for the symposium.

( Here be 710 words duct taped together at the 11th hour. )