I'm moving my journal to Dreamwidth: http://terriko.dreamwidth.org/There's a few reasons for this move. Dreamwidth is a neat new project with a lot of women involved, and I love supporting women-friendly projects. Dreamwidth's values seem pretty sound, and match up better with my own. They've made some nice improvements to the codebase that make ( Read more... )

I think my talk on attracting women to open source went well enough. The room started out looking pretty sleepy and passive, but I'd managed to seed the crowd with some talkative friends, and once a couple of them got the ball rolling people got down to discussion in a good way ( Read more... )

A friend sent me this, and I'll probably blog about it more coherently for cu-wise, but for now here's the link:

Top Paying Jobs for WomenI like to believe I'm not hugely financially motivated (as evidenced by remaining a student so long) but I have to admit I feel a twinge of happy to see that computer software engineering is #4 on the list, IT ( Read more... )

I'm running a Birds of a Feather session about attracting more women to open source software at the Linux Symposium tomorrow (err, today. Weds, July 15th, 3pm ( Read more... )

Got the latest proposal draft sent off late last night. Not entirely pleased with it, since I was getting somewhat incoherent towards the end, but I'm pleased to see it go.

Promptly installed the new Monkey Island and played 'till I was ready to sleep. The first episode had been released earlier that day, so I wasn't even too late getting to it ( Read more... )

I've been busy, first with the workshop that kept me at the university 12hrs/day, and now with finishing the latest thesis proposal draft on a suddenly tighter deadline. (Turns out it is quite late, and while that won't be a problem, I've been told to finish ASAP.) Not to mention Canada Day and my visiting boyfriend who, sadly, has wound up ( Read more... )

For those interested in hanging out with the MBL folk, our plan is as follows ( Read more... )

Every year, I get a couple of emails from random researchers who want my help finding papers or learning about the area. It's flattering that they think it's worth asking me, I suppose, but many of them do so with such an utter lack of tact or understanding that they border on insulting. They manage in so few words to indicate that they have no ( Read more... )

I got the following message as spam. I'm 99% sure this is random spam noise, but I'm curious to see if it translates to anything. I *think* those are largely real words with other stuff stuck in, like thiskioqlceremony. Anyone feel like making sense of it or pumping it into a decryption algorithm for fun?

Subject: htnm eprd ftz fcygps vj ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what it says about me that when the assignment is "take a picture of a chair" with the dare of "make it something you'd hang on your wall," this is the first thing that springs to mind:


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