Cause people from a distance can’t tell who is who.
Jay-Z lyric, spoken by Jason at the end of Calcanis Cast 20.
Don’t argue with fools
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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Married on Facebook
Jules says that you two are married on Facebook. We need you to confirm that you are, in fact, married to Jules.To confirm this relationship request, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php
These are strange days on planet Earth.
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Banking on Secure Personal Images
If it is not part of my experience then I probably won’t learn it unless it is intuitive or standardized.
Bravery
“The surprising thing is someone speaking up *in public* in her own voice, unmediated.”
Kathy Sierra who helps us so much “Creating Passionate Users“
2007-03-27 Update: “Brave, unsinkable soul” shares Tara Hunt
PayPerPost on CalacanisCast
When people look at blogs they do not expect the content to be ads. Simple Ted.
If it is an advert, the article should clearly show that it is an advertorial. For longer content that means the top and the bottom of the article should clearly display a disclaimer. Simple Ted.
Daffodil Days for Cancer Societies
My teammate Donncha wrote “today is Daffodil Day here in Ireland and in honour of the day I’m offering a daffodil header image to any blogger who’d like it.”
The 780×200 image, a photograph I assume he took, is gorgeous:
I love working with caring, passionate, dedicated people!
My friends causes are my own, so even with my mortgage looming, I made a small donation to the Canadian Cancer Society.
In the process I learned that the Canadian Cancer Society logo also is a daffodil.
And that the Canadian Cancer Society has a whole month of Daffodils Day’s with many of the daffodils coming from here, the garden city, Victoria, British Columbia.
The Canadian Cancer Society’s daffodil campaign began in Toronto in the 1950s. A group of Canadian Cancer Society volunteers organized a fundraising tea and decided to decorate the tables with daffodils. The bright, cheerful flowers created an atmosphere that seemed to radiate hope and faith that cancer could be beaten.
From The history of the daffodil campaign
Make today your daffodil day by donating to your cancer society!
If Linux is a Woman and Women in Tech
“She’s high-maintenance with multiple personalities (read: distros) and expects you to be a mind reader when something goes wrong when you just met her. No Linux deserves better than that. Linux deserves the truth. Bring on a nerdy, brainy, hacker guy. No less will do.”
Comment by Sandra F
Unfortunately, Sandra is correct. “Linux is still regarded as being a geeky system only.” Thankfully, Linux is a work in progress and rapidly improving.
Those Novell commercials with Linux as a woman are a great reminder that of all three platforms, the ratio of women to men that use each desktop OS has to be the lowest on Linux. Thankfully, it is a problem that many people take seriously. LinuxChix seems like a good resource.
I would be interesting to find out what initiatives and successes Ubuntu, Red Hat and Novell have had getting diverse participation in their products? Particularly Ubuntu because as a community they seem to have the greatest appreciation and understanding of the need and value of diversity.
WordPress has few female contributors. How do we attract more amazing contributors like Lorelle VanFossen, Christine Davis, and Jennifer Hodgdon?
For the broader issue, there are successful organizations like Alliance of Technology and Women (ATW) and Women in Technology International (WITI).
Chris Messina asked about the future of white boy clubs. Jason Kottke is counting gender diversity at web conferences this year.
We have a long way to come.
Update 2007-03-23: Today, I read Glenda Bautista’s Agendacide article from yesterday about Jeremiah Owyang’s list of Asian technology speakers
Password Please
apg: for all my random password needs.
Fail All the Time
John Backus said, “You need the willingness to fail all the time.” “You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.”
That is how you write software, and do anything worth doing in life.
To Reveal, Apokalyptik
Demitrious Kelly (apokalyptik) has joined us at Automattic, and Matt immediately points out Demitrious needs to blog more.
Even only after the short time that I have been working with Demitrious, it is clear he fits right in:
- Cheesy, quick wit.
- Speaks the same language as Barry, and I don’t understand a word of it as they push bits from one corner of the world to the next faster and more reliably.
Barry and Demitrious probably think that people with lots of hardware don’t need to blog.