- I love this list of the Top Ten Reasons that John Kerry Sucks Less
- Similar to the more well-known pregnancy emulators, architects in this case wore a suit that simulates getting old … and couldn’t do the simplest of things, unsurprisingly
- A Few Good Women is an article about getting women into tech jobs or even just the IT industry, the challenges faced and what some companies are doing to combat the issues. It’s interesting, useful and contains the rather memorable quote (on page three):
“If you’ve got a bunch of nerdy white guys creating the technology, you get stuff that appeals to nerdy white guys,” says Greg Papadopoulos, chief technology officer for Sun Microsystems. “If you want to turn out more usable products, you’d better get more women involved.”
- Another masterpiece from McSweeney: Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush
- How to Tie a Tie, for all my just-graduated friends in their search for a decent job
- The best non-technical explanation of a website I have ever seen is contained in this Wordpress tutorial
- 8 Ways to Fix Your Search Engine from Jeffrey Veen
- Internet media streaming formats are annoying. I hate having to download all sorts of shit programs just to view something a friend or whoever thought was funny. Proprietary standards mean it’s next to impossible to get a plays-all solution. Thus, the BBC is my hero and they rock so hard
- Manic squirrel + motorbike story that I remember went around email a while ago. Not sure if this is the source of the email or not, but it is very funny
- On the other hand, the ActionScript Jabberwocky scares me. Lots
- New Windows PC? Apparently, if you connect it to the net, it will be infected before you can possibly patch it
- Being able to tell if any of my friends know someone who’s emailed me would be quite cool. I do wonder, however, how well it deals with multiple email addresses
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Meri @ 4:38 PM on August 23, 2004
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August 23rd, 2004 at 5:12 PM
We were recently hiring someone for an IT position. There were about fifty applicants of whom only one was a woman. I found that a bit shocking really - it was, for example, a much more extreme ratio than in my computer science lectures.
August 23rd, 2004 at 7:42 PM
Surely there’s no such thing as a decent job which involves wearing a tie - even for the interview
September 20th, 2004 at 10:11 AM
I must agree with Simon’s sentiments.