Zero Sum/Guerilla Research has some interesting bluetooth statistics
(Wait! Come back!) from a survey of 1500 individuals in one of
London's central business districts:68% of personalised devices were
given 'male' names, with only 20% allocated a 'female' name. Although
mobile phone ownership is higher for men than women in the...
Gender Confusion04/22/2004 10:43 PM I really wish spammers would get their story straight. Hey, I just
wanted to share with you the experiences I've had in the past...
Gender Genie
Gender Genie12/30/2003 01:26 AM Interesting... This neat little program claims it
can guess the author's sex by the distribution of words in text. At
least it guessed my sex correctly, but it did make the grave mistake
of thinking that one of the people on my blogroll (right) is a male,
even though I'm pretty sure she's a lady :).
Gender and style12/11/2003 11:53 PM
I rarely quote another blog's entry in its entirety, but this one
needed to appear whole. It's from Dorothea Salo, reacting to Edd
Dumbill's report, on XML.com, about something I said in my Tuesday
keynote:
...
Awesome!
Awesome!01/08/2004 08:45 PM Congratulations to our friends at Rogue Amoeba for winning the
MacWorld SF Best of Show. That totally rocked, and I...
War So Isn't Awesome
War So Isn't Awesome12/24/2004 12:58 PM The members of Boy o Boy, the last boy band on Earth, ask everyone to
"point your missile in my direction" this holiday season.
I opined a few months ago on the beauty and joy of the command
line, but I had another experience today that really illustrated the
fact that GUI’s aren’t the best tool for everything.
I have both the privilege and burden of dealing with Rational
Clearcase for some version control tasks. I recently wrote a large
module with a number of new files, and it was time to add it to source
control. Clearcase’s GUI has no ‘recursively add all these
files’ function, which is one of the many ways in which it
strives to suck, and succeeds beyond expectations.
Fortunately, I’ve got Cygwin on my Windows box. First up:
get a list of files to check in. I want only my module, and not any of
the Frontpage crap that Visual Studio adds to web projects. So, I need
a list of all the files in the project, then get rid of any of them
that are not in my module’s folder, then get rid of any
directories that start with an underscore (the frontpage crap), then
save that list to a file.
find . | grep /MyModule | sed /\/_[a-z]/d >
list.txt
(Yes, there are plenty of more efficient ways to write this, but it
was the first way that came to mind, and it works.)
Now I need to take each of those items and check it in to ClearCase
one by one. (Clearcase has an import commandline command that would
take them all at once, but I don’t have permission to run it in
my environment). No sweat with bash.
for file in `cat list.txt`; do cleartool mkelem $file;
done
Awesome. Two commands instead of an hour’s worth of clicking,
saving me so much time that I waste it on things like posting to blogs
while I wait for the checkin to finish.
You need Cygwin if you are a serious power user of any
kind. Learning it will not only make you faster, it will make you more
platform independent. Almost all non-Windows platforms that you run
across use some variation of this syntax.
Awesome combover06/07/2004 03:51 PM I try not to post things that make fun of people's appearances, so I
have to explain that I'm linking to this picture of an extreme
combover not because I think it looks bad on the guy, but because I'm
saluting him for being so in-your-face about it. He's pushing the
envelope, and he deserves recognition. Link
Google IPO underwriters learn their roles
Google IPO underwriters learn their roles05/24/2004 06:40 PM Monterey County Herald,CA-16 minutes agoNEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) --
Google Inc., whose very name is a metaphor for easy access to
information, has lifted a shroud of secrecy on its estimated $2.7 ...
Pitt rules out further epic roles05/14/2004 03:08 AM Brad Pitt says he has ruled out making another historical epic film
after Troy, at the Cannes Film Festival.
Windows takes on multiple roles07/22/2004 11:08 AM As IT Week revealed recently, Microsoft is working to make Windows run
Linux software, and not before time. Windows and Linux would be much
more useful platforms if they could each run software originally
written for the other.
Now let's talk about Longhorn. Longhorn is the codename for the next
version of Windows, currently slated for delivery in 2008. Though
Microsoft has mentioned the possibility of a 3D graphical user
interface, and a new database-like file-system, it has actually made
no promises about what will be included in Longhorn. Many people note
that 2008 is so far away that without an excellent crystal ball,
nobody could predict what the update will contain. But one thing I
reckon for certain about Longhorn is that it will be able to run Linux
software.
"I feel like I'm at a Microsoft monastery here," wrote Rory Blyth from
the most recent Professional Developers Conference. "I think I've seen
about 2.5 females ... it's like they're an endangered species." The
observation holds equally true for open source conferences.
...
If we expect social software to help rewrite the productivity
equation, social skills and protocols become critical parts of the
game. How can social software succeed if, in its development, half the
population is so poorly represented? [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
This column touches on two third-rail issues: personality and gender.
The Wired
article on Asperger's syndrome cited in the column was incorrectly
dated, by the way. My error: it was of course published in 2001, not
1991. That slipped past me and my editors, but my friend Larry Welkowitz, a
psychologist and AS specialist, caught it.
...
Gender correction for Saudi girls
Gender correction for Saudi girls06/17/2004 03:23 AM Five sisters in strictly conservative Saudi Arabia undergo operations
to become men.
Italy, Spain Have Big Gender Gap Online (AP)01/17/2004 11:02 PM AP - Italy and Spain have the largest gap between men and women who
are online, while Chinese users are most likely to credit the Internet
for connecting them with the politically like-minded, according to a
worldwide study coordinated by UCLA.
Italy, Spain Have Big Gender Gap Online01/17/2004 10:53 PM A UCLA study says Italy and Spain have the largest gap between men and
women who are online, while Chinese users are most likely to credit
the Internet for connecting them politically.
Exploring New Roles for Community Technology Centers
CompuMentor Report Examines the Capacity of
CTCs to Provide Technology Assistance to Nonprofits. Over the past
several years, much discussion has taken place in the nonprofit sector
and particularly in the community technology movement around the
evolving roles of community technology centers (CTC). One idea that
has received significant attention is whether CTCs may expand their
roles to act as nonprofit technology assistance providers (NTAPs).
With the support of the AOL Time Warner Foundation,
CompuMentor took a closer look at this issue and published its
findings in the report "Exploring New Roles for Community Technology
Centers: Can CTCs Serve as Nonprofit Technical Assistance Providers?"
CompuMentor's interest in this subject came from two vantage points.
First, as an NTAP we understand there is a very large unmet need in
the nonprofit sector for technology support services. Second, as a
provider or services and technical assistance to CTCs, we know that
sustainability is a huge challenge.
The key findings of the
report, conducted by Rem Hoffmann, include:
* Although CTCs
are perceived as tech-savvy organizations, they may not have the
capacity to function as NTAPs.
* Technology skills are only
one of five categories of qualifications necessary to serve as an
NTAP. Others are mission congruency, business capabilities, the
ability to subsidize the cost of providing service, and position in
the community. While a number of CTCs meet some of these
qualifications, very few meet all or most of them.
* NTAPs
reported that fundraising to subsidize the cost of providing services
was critical to succeeding. The report found that it costs much more
to provide these services than nonprofits are able to pay, which
directly contrasts the perception that CTCs acting as NTAPs can
generate earned income to support their other programs.
There appears to be a small subset of CTCs that can offer NTAP
services. The paper concludes with a recommendation to conduct further
research of new models for NTAPs and CTCs to partner to deliver
services to community-based organizations.
2 PC Makers Favor Bigger Recycling Roles05/19/2004 01:26 AM Hewlett-Packard said it is supporting a proposal that places more of
the financial burden for recycling used computers on the companies
rather than consumers or local governments.
'Sex and the City' Star Switches Roles (AP)
'Sex and the City' Star Switches Roles (AP)09/24/2004 11:42 AM AP - "Sex and the City" has taken on a whole new meaning for Cynthia
Nixon. The actress, who just won an Emmy for her role as Miranda
Hobbes in the hit HBO comedy, is in a relationship with another woman,
a source who works with Nixon told The Associated Press on Friday.
Robert De Niro Defends His Mafia Roles (AP)
Robert De Niro Defends His Mafia Roles (AP)09/11/2004 07:38 AM AP - Robert De Niro dismissed accusations that his Mafia roles have
smeared the image of Italian-Americans, arguing that he plays
realistic characters including many who could not be construed as
stereotypes.
Another D70 Review (Hint: It's Still Awesome)
Another D70 Review (Hint: It's Still Awesome)04/15/2004 07:48 AM JOEL JOHNSON -- Another great, painfully in-depth Nikon D70 review,
this one with a little more "old-fashioned camera geek" slant. Thom
Hogan finds the D70 to be a breakthrough performer all around, with
very few downsides. As for the inevitable comparison with Canon's
Digital Rebel, Thom says, "If the Digital... Grok Description matches for Bluetooth, Gender Roles, Something About How Men Are Awesome GrokA matches for Bluetooth, Gender Roles, Something About How Men Are Awesome
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