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Fearing Failure
A director friend at dinner the other night mentioned that people fear failure so much they won’t try new things. That it stunts the creative process, too. I’ve never had a problem learning in public- a contentious issue when I was learning Ruby on Rails recently. I asked this on FriendFeed the other day– “name […]
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Feminism in Web 2.0: Cattiness gets me down.
(part of a series on feminism in tech, in web2.0 world) On Friday, I witnessed some intense, intense cattiness. On Saturday, I was part of a great event – co-teaching Ruby on Rails to 80 some odd men and women who wanted to learn. It was truly touching, the companies and organizations that extended real […]
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Ideas to Creation: Interview with Directeur of SocialWhoIs
Note: you can get this t-shirt at North Beach’s Lola on Grant I went on vacation for a month. When I got back, my chat-buddy @directeur had created a new web2.0 site, SocialWhoIs. We’ve been talking for a while about this industry, and approaches to creativity in technology, so I thought I’d interview him about […]
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Time to Create
This is a good time to start a business. I keep saying that, wondering if it will come true the more times I say it. Why do I think it’s such a great time? – There are some amazing people who have time and energy – Said folks are very highly skilled – Last time […]
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Technology
Credit to Christopher Welle who won the caption contest. There were many good submissions, such as: “iTypewriter” – Baard Overgaard Hansen and “back when i was a kid we didn’t have typewriters, we had to make do with carved tablets of stone” – Cee Bee Also, credit to Bren for the photo, as he owns […]
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Camping Improvements Since the 70s
I just came back from a 4 day camping trip in the El Dorado Forest – great alternative to Yosemite, by the way! As I was comparing my gear to my sister & her husband’s, I started a mental list of vast improvements in camping technology since the stuff my parents had in the 70s. […]
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tagclouds
Ah, very cool. Created from here: Get your NSID from Flickr (view source on a photo page, search for “nsid”) Paste it into here, It will generate all of your tags, then it submits it to another site that generates the tagCloud. Neat!
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Scriptaculous & Working Weekends
I’m experimenting with various little user interface effects from Scriptaculous (hence the working weekend in the title). Try them out! Demo Effects Page I spent about a month getting my drag & drop to work using some code from a German guy, and here I could have used Scriptaculous to do it. I’m not sure […]
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Humbled by CSS
I’ve been putting in some long hours working on Annaboka (feel free to log in, check it out, give me feedback! anna-at-annaboka.com) and I’ve come full circle on one of my least favorite forms of self-knowledge, realizing you didn’t know what you didn’t know. I’ve been cruising around with a 1998 version of web engineering, […]
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Talking to My Splogger
So, mimickry is the sincerest form of flattery. Thursday, a man in San Diego copied my workblog and called it his own. He called me today (Saturday)- I had wanted him to call me if anything was unclear about my request, essentially to cease and desist use of my writing on his servers. He explained […]