I’ve been feeling good this year about the status of women in F/OSS. The percentages are still low (in spite of the Google bursary, the number of female attendees was abysmally low at the UKUUG spring conference) but there are a number of factors contributing to my optimism: Hey cool, female computer scientist Barbara Liskov […]
Archive for April, 2009
Ubuntu Open Week: Ubuntu Women Project
April 28th, 2009 by pleia2
Tomorrow, April 29th, at 23:00 UTC I’ll be doing an Ubuntu Open Week session on the Ubuntu Women Project in #ubuntu-classroom (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions and discussion). I will be focusing on: General intro to project Why we feel such a project is important Project resources Aside from the basics of above I’ll try to put […]
Heat, test server, vlc and thunderbird
April 26th, 2009 by pleia2
Today was hot, it appeared to have peaked around 91F, matching the record set in this area 19 years ago. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced 90F degree weather in April before, this is the second day of it and it looks to be lasting through Tuesday. My apartment is retrofitted for A/C, which means […]
PLUG at the Trenton Computer Festival
April 25th, 2009 by pleia2
Today I woke up at 6:30AM (oh, is that why I’m so tired?) to head out to the Trenton Computer Festival where I was running a table to promote PLUG. I was accompanied by friends Stephen Nichols and Mike Edwards. Upon arrival things were a bit confusing – but within about 20 minutes we’d finally […]
“One’s never alone with a rubber duck”
April 21st, 2009 by pleia2
I moved into this apartment about 6 months ago. I can’t say that I was ever particularly excited to be living alone, at first I was reeling from the divorce and coming to terms with living alone for the first time in my life. I’ve been able to enjoy the novelty of living alone during […]
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Pink Sansa Fuze
April 21st, 2009 by pleia2
About 3 years ago I got my first mp3 player, the Sansa e140. It was a decent little $80 player for the time, did basic things you need an mp3 player to do and was great for the gym. There really is nothing wrong with it even today, but the lack of features and some […]
Philadelphia Geeknic: Success!
April 20th, 2009 by pleia2
The first Geeknic, right here near Philadelphia, took place yesterday at Betzwood Park. We topped out at around 30 people, we invited folks from Ubuntu Pennsylvania, Ubuntu New Jersey, PLUG, PhillyGeek, PASUG, PACS, Temple ACM, a few other nearby LUGs and through advertising in the Freenode motd (yes, some people do read those!). We even […]
Upcoming Linux events near Philadelphia
April 18th, 2009 by pleia2
April 19, 2009: Philadelphia Geeknic 2009 @ Betzwood Park On March 31st PLUG member Jonathan Simpson and I had the following exchange: < JonathanD> pleia2: lets setup a geeknic < pleia2> geeknic? < JonathanD> geeknic < pleia2> define please < JonathanD> it’s a geeky picnic! < pleia2> oh :) The rest was history! I was […]
“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.”
April 17th, 2009 by pleia2
In spite of my supreme love for good beer, since living alone I’ve hardly been drinking at all. I think I just don’t enjoy drinking alone very much, and the places I’ve gone out to lately haven’t really had fantastic beer so I’ve tended to just go without. However I do like a nice brew […]
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This morning I had a bagel
April 15th, 2009 by pleia2
My blog used to be much more “daily life” oriented. When things started getting tough life-wise I scaled back a lot from my near-daily entries and just posted about events. Then life got busier and I continued to not make blogging a priority, getting to the point where blogging is something that ends up on […]
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