.51 - More Good Things To Read

So far, so good, sister geeks.
On 5/1/2008, .51 launched itself into the ether, and I’m pretty psyched by how things have gone this month. Now, I don’t want to get all self-congratulatory, because it’s only been a few days, but I’ve seen a really good response so far. Thanks to all the people who’ve submitted […]

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Women (Sort of) On Mars!

Missed this one when it happened but someone (thanks, T.D.A.!) sent me a link to this article. Three months ago, over at NASA, an all-woman team guided the Mars Rovers.
WTF? How did I miss *that*?
Anyway, I’ve got mixed feelings about this article. On the one hand, it reports a momentous occasion and I’m very excited […]

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What To Get The Geek Who Has Everything

I’m sure that if we all joined together and chipped in a few bucks each, we could get one of these, right? I mean, I don’t know what the hell I’d build with it, but isn’t it cool to think that I could build nearly anything?
Check out what all these companies did with 3D Printers.
And […]

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Girls Gone Geek: TV For Your Ears

While the women over at Girls Gone Geek.TV don’t always have video, they don’t skimp when it comes to great audio for your listening pleasure.
I’m working my way through their weekly podcasts at the moment, as well as all of the countless tips and liberally sprinkled screencasts buried in the blogposts. Girls Gone Geek is […]

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RailsConf 2008 starts today in PDX

Not sure how I missed this, but RailsConf starts today, May 29th, 2008, and continues through June 1st in Portland, Oregon. If you’re in the area, and not registered for any of the seminars, make sure you visit the Exhibition Hall on Friday and Saturday and check out booths from O’Reilly (huge surprise - they’re […]

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Quick update on the BSD Project

I’m now at the tail end of my PC-BSD vs. DesktopBSD research. I must say that I’m strongly leaning towards DesktopBSD because I like the look of their package manager. I can’t say how many times I’ve had to deal with package issues in Linux, and the easier it is to update packages, the happier […]

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