Archive

2010 June
14 » Geeky accessories 2
Plastic tangram camel earrings. That's all you need to know!
06 » Geeky accessories
They use 3D printing to make earrings. Neato.
2010 May
17 » Some Wikimedia news
Links to a talk I gave at the NLA's Innovative Ideas Forum.
2010 April
27 » Digikam on Ubuntu 9.10
Ah Digikam, what went wrong between Xubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.10? Maybe "It'll ship when it's ready" isn't such a bad policy.
18 » Amusing MediaWiki bug report
What do you do when something goes wrong in the world? Like, say, a volcano goes off and shuts down most air travel in Europe? Well, you file a bug, obvs. :)
08 » Your router is a web server   [2]
Ordinary router + OpenWrt + Arduino + Pachube = your plants on Twitter. oh yes.
07 » Drawing directions with canvas and JavaScript
JavaScript is such great cheap magic.
2010 March
24 » "Go to the top": women at the Australian weather bureau
Brief overview of women at the Bureau of Meteorology during World War II and since. Brief bio on Dame Beryl Beaurepaire.
10 » A reason to love Ubuntu 9.10: add-apt-repository
From Ubuntu 9.10, PPAs on Launchpad can be easily added to one's sources list by "add-apt-repository ppa:foo/ppa". Excellent!
08 » New computer: Hardware & OS   [1]
Shiny new hardware! Plus the trials and tribulations of installing Ubuntu 9.10 from scratch.
2010 February
20 » LUV Beginners Workshop, Scratch & crochet   [2]
MY first Scratch project and my first crochet attempts. YARLY.
16 » Bureau of Meteorology & Senator Kate Lundy in Senate Estimates   [1]
Senator Lundy asks the director of the Bureau of Meteorology about their web presence and licensing of data.
2010 January
31 » Bugtracking software gripes
Why aren't bug trackers perfect yet?!
28 » Revisiting craft   [3]
Light bulb moment: Why have I felt the urge to shun or pooh-pooh traditional/stereotypical women's hobbies? Why do I feel so perversely pleased in pursuing traditionally male-dominated things?
23 » Security 101: updating web-based software   [1]
Thinking out loud about the best way to keep my web apps up to date.
20 » LCA Geek Assembly - meet the Rainbowduino
Video of a Rainbowduino in full-colour action and some brief hardware pulling-apart.
19 » LCA recap - Code of our own   [1]
Summary of Liz Henry's talk "Code of our own", at the Haecksen/LinuxChix miniconf, LCA 2010.
2009 December
06 » Scrabble quibblers   [3]
Scrabble: play to the Scrabble dictionary, and no one gets hurt.
06 » Job-finding
How to get a job from attending user groups, in ? easy steps.
2009 November
15 » Frogspotter v4 and GGD Afternoon Hack
JavaScript debugging for the rest of us.
12 » Capitalism and power - a sharp reminder   [2]
What if women ruled the world? No, really.
08 » Frogspotter v3 and MelHack wrap-up
Latest screenshots of frogspotter, and a summary of melhack.
08 » Frogspotter v2
Frogspotter v2 - now with colour.
07 » MelHack - But does it have frogs?   [5]
frogspotter v1 is born at melhack - a Melbourne Hack Weekend hosted by Lonely Planet.
2009 October
25 » GGD Afternoon Hack II - Saturday November 14th (date change!)
GGD Afternoon Hack the Sequel. November 14, ThoughtWorks, bring your hacker friends and your laptop.
07 » Job-hunting   [3]
Blog author now available for hire!
05 » The mysteries of the rich
The strange hobbies and happenings of the rich, as reported in BRW's 2009 Young Rich list.
2009 September
23 » Video editing 101 with ffmpeg
Some ffmpeg commands to do basic video editing.
21 » Software Freedom Day recap
Why is understanding code, let alone software freedom, important? Also, rollicking 3 minute video of geeks giving talks. YARLY.
14 » Conversation traffic   [1]
An analogy: Explicit road rules = language grammar, Implicit traffic rules = conversational norms.
13 » September high   [1]
LUV ctte! Wikimania! BarCamp! (Lightning talk!) MXUG! Software Freedom Day! (Is September nearly over?)
2009 August
19 » BarCamp is three weeks away!
Plug for the upcoming September Melbourne BarCamp.
13 » Finding COCOA in CHOCOLATE without a dictionary?
Given a set of letters, how can you find all the valid words that can be made from them... without a dictionary?
03 » GGD Afternoon Hack - Sunday 9th August
2009 July
27 » Software Freedom Day - speakers wanted
CFP for SFD.
22 » MXUG-style GGD recap
Recap of the first MXUG-style Girl Geek Dinner in Melbourne last night, + slides from my talk.
15 » Using bzr for developing a web app
In which I discover some nice bzr tools.
11 » MXUG-style Girl Geek Dinner, Melbourne   [2]
A short story called When MXUG & GGD Had A Baby. Due out 21st July.
2009 June
30 » Forking out eyeballs
25 » FITT for management?   [6]
Is it too much to ask to have at least one woman who works in IT to take part in an event for women in the IT industry?
21 » Miniconf for adoption   [1]
Free as in Freedom miniconf free to good home. Seeks caring NZ owner with no previous commitments. Non-smokers only.
11 » Programmers on TV
"Its a bit like changing the windscreen to get your car started."
11 » cIIF by MMV
An interesting grants program I discovered coming out of Multimedia Victoria, called the "Collaborative Internet Innovation Fund".
2009 May
17 » FLOSS personal accounting 101
An initial grapple with the free software offerings in the personal finance category.
10 » Feeling charitable   [1]
What if supporting/developing FLOSS was considered charitable?
2009 April
20 » Notes on 'Unlocking IP'
Link to notes and video from the 2009 Unlocking IP conference.
01 » Open sourcing software - pop quiz   [8]
How can a company release existing software under an open source license without just "dumping" it, and foster a community of development? And can you do it succesfully without being Sun or Canonical?
2009 March
24 » Ada Lovelace Day: Stormy Peters   [2]
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. I talk about Stormy Peters, ED of the GNOME Foundation.
16 » StixCamp write-up
It's a BarCamp! In the sticks! At a winery! With awesome food! And the usual (?) interesting folk and deep geeking out.
02 » An unsurprising exchange
A brief email exchange after announcing a LinuxChix meetup. This is just a touch ranty.
2009 January
31 » Django plans for spokenwikipedia.org
Plans for a Django project to build spokenwikipedia.org.
27 » On being selfish   [2]
Contemplations on Mary Gardiner's talk "Starting your free software adventure", and a comment on "girl stuff".
26 » LCA 2009 recap
Overview/recap of LCA 2009.
25 » Techiturn is born