Archive for the 'nerd stuff' Category

Further proof the CASCON WIT Workshop is Spot On…

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

I received two emails today pointing me to this article in the Toronto Star. This article, which discusses lonelygirl15* and her too-good-to-be-true-ness, has the headline: More proof there are no actual women online YouTube’s popular Lonelygirl15 turns out to be a fake, as filmmakers admit they’ve been producing online show Sound familiar? So come on […]

An email to my sister (Subject: Facebook Warning)

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Dear Mutant, As the fabulous sister that I am, I felt the need to notify you that as of today, Mom can get a facebook account. And you know how she’s been wanting one. If you don’t believe me, you can check this out: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2210227130 While I know we both adore our Mama, and would […]

Technorati

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Can anyone recommend a good technorati tagging plugin for WordPress? Thanks muchly! Edit: Technorati is driving me mad!!! Why won’t it see my tags? Maybe registering will help…Technorati Profile

lonelygirl15

Monday, September 4th, 2006

i’m addicted (no, it’s not porn – and it’s all stephen’s fault). at least i haven’t gotten into the whole real/fake debate. yet. there’s just something about these videos that make me keep watching. in any case, i was surprised to find that there are quite a few people talking about it…

And since one isn’t enough..

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

I’m totally psyched to be co-chairing a second CASCON workshop called “Women in Technology: New Strategies to Attract a New Generation of Girls.” From the online description: The recent dramatic decline of female enrolments in computer science and engineering education programs follows a time when female participation had peaked in the late 1990s. This leads […]

Partici-pants Wanted!

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Baron, some other teammates and I will be presenting at this year’s IBM CASCON. We will be running a workshop titled “Introduction to Ajax Technologies – Using Dojo” with a bunch of introductory labs on rapid web development with dojo. We tried to cram as many buzzwords as we can into the description… Not bad […]

Working Girl Woes

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

An interesting article from Forbes. I don’t have the energy right now for a proper rant, but regardless, it definitely made me chuckle. His article, not her response. I’m down with her response. Jessica Simpson probably hasn’t caught wind of it, or she might not have agreed to be in the Working Girl remake. Okay, […]

can’t blog

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

must colour… (check out flickr for details) p.s. I can’t figure out how to log back into the zooomr account i created the other day (yes, seriously) so I had to make a new account to post this pic. (edit: figured it out)

curiosity

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

there are two things i’m curious about: the sketchy video/gambling place under emily’s apartment (pictured below) zoomr, who is hosting said photo and upgrading me to a pro account for blogging this picture which i hosted on their site. i wonder which one of the two will kill the cat. or wait, it’s plain old […]

something worth blogging about

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

The Mac commercials: As not seen on TV.