So I'm going through my morning routine, catching up on feeds in Google Reader, and I hit Irregular Webcomic. I clicky, and it opens in a background tab, and I go on through my feeds waiting for it to load... and suddenly my computer starts emitting a lovely grinding noise. From the speakers, fortunately.  Morgan-Mar, I'm gonna kill you... no, wait ( Read more... )

Quoth the Eagle (I'm not gonna provide a link, because "breaking news" means "breaking links" under RealCities. Stupid) in one of the BarSol explosions articles ( Read more... )

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My mother just emailed me to tell me she bought a $450 (on sale from $1600!) mutt at freakin' Petland.

I'm glad it was via email, because I'm pretty sure I would be disowned by now if she'd sprung that on me in person.

One of the speakers remarked on the gender distribution: "Raise your hand if you're a girl ( Read more... )

Well, actually, not really any *more* women.

The male/female ratio at YAPC is pretty high; one of the cleaning ladies expressed her amazement while we were standing there waiting for the elevator. I forget what her first question was (
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In the course of picking up various REST and Ajax blogs, I started reading Tim Bray's blog, ongoing. And from there, an article in devChix.

I have mixed feelings about these sorts of things. I have a lot of trouble identifying myself as a "geekgrrl" or a "devchix" (devchik? or whatever the singular is) or any of those things. Same way with "Women in ( Read more... )

http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/ATM0DTforums.foobar.net/

1985 is optimistic, though. Forums don't even have an echomail-equivalent yet.

(Working on it!)

So D was afraid to actually call Tracfone tech support, and I exercised tough love and didn't do it for her, so she brought the phone over today when she came to clean my house. I went as far as to point out the Costumer [sic] Care number for her, and told her to call them and tell them the issue, and if they wanted her to send that phone back ( Read more... )

I just hope *our* mail server isn't dumb enough to accept mail like this (these are *their* headers, forwarded in a backscatter message ( Read more... )