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Recent posts
- Strong women and the military May 18, 2013
- Ball lightning: the coolest thing you’ve never heard of May 10, 2013
- Suicide and society: Where does responsibility for preventing suicide lie? January 12, 2013
- Inbox Thirty-Two: How one email addict manages her email January 11, 2013
- Book recommendations please? December 23, 2012
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Strong women and the military
My typical morning news routine is listening to NPR’s Morning Edition while catching up on Twitter from the night before – which can be a hilariously jarring experience. Take the news cycle about removing the no-combat rule for women in … Continue reading
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Tagged feminism, military
Ball lightning: the coolest thing you’ve never heard of
Don’t have enough worries keeping you awake at night? How about worrying about being woken up by a glowing floating ball of light barging into your bedroom in the middle of the night? At 1:36 a.m. this morning I awoke … Continue reading
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Suicide and society: Where does responsibility for preventing suicide lie?
Every time a well-known person commits suicide, I brace myself for a torrent of well-meaning but patronizing advice to suicidal people on various social networks and blogs as the friends of the victim try to find something – anything – … Continue reading
Inbox Thirty-Two: How one email addict manages her email
I was feeling a little panicky today because I was behind on my work email… 32 messages behind. If this sounds heavenly to you, keep reading – I’m about to describe how I do it. First, credit where credit is … Continue reading
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Book recommendations please?
Our fancy modern new Interweb should make the question, “Where can I find more books like this?” super easy to answer. But it’s not, because I often like books for different reasons than the majority of the books’ other fans. … Continue reading
Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions table updated
I finally got around to updating the Lifetimes of cryptographic hash functions table to be current to 2012. I also licensed it CC-BY-SA. Some time when I’m REALLY bored I’ll include all the references inline, but Wikipedia now has pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged compare-by-hash, content-based addressing, cryptography, kernel
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Essential San Francisco software
I sold my car in 2007 because Google Transit was in beta for the city I was living in at the time (Portland). Today, I don’t know what I’d do without the suite of software I use to get around … Continue reading
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The Linux community can’t remain silent while leaders make anti-woman comments
I’ve written about prominent open source software leader Ted Ts’o’s public comments about rape for the Ada Initiative over on their blog. This post is about my personal reactions. I know, you don’t want to read about some Linux programmer’s … Continue reading
Has open source given to you? Give back so women have the same chance you did
This is a cross-post of a post I wrote for the Ada Initiative blog about what open source software and Linux in particular has given me. Like many of you, open source software gave me a good job as a … Continue reading
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Tagged feminism, kernel, linux, volunteer
Another tech bubble is close to popping
Rent prices in San Francisco have suddenly shot up somewhere around 50% in the last year. Every time this happens, another tech bubble pops in the near future. Backing this up is Facebook’s stock decline and the continuing general trend … Continue reading
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