What is BitlBee? BitlBee enables you to connect to chat networks and Twitter via an IRC client and interact with those chat networks in the same way you interact with IRC. Why would you want to do this? Aside from being neat, being able to connect to chat and twitter with your IRC client means …
Thoughts on Peck’s “People of the Lie”
M. Scott Peck, is best known for The Road Less Traveled, followed closely by People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil, his second book. People of the Lie explores the psychology of human evil and possible ways for healing that evil. Peck wrote the book 5 years after Road Less Traveled and …
Gone, Gone, Gone
It’s been a few days now since Igal left us and I struggle to assemble coherent thoughts about how I’m feeling. I oscillate between numbness, anger, disbelief and anguish. In my mind, as if on a loop, I hear his voice and his laugh and see him smile. I don’t know what he’s saying, but …
Open Source Day at Grace Hopper: Core Team Members Wanted
The Open Source Day event (2012 overview) is part of the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference (GHC). This year I am co-chairing the Open Source Day (OSD) with Alice Bonhomme-Biais, who has been involved with OSD at GHC championing the Google Crisis Response project The purpose of the Open Source Day …
Bold Ideas Uttered Publicly: PyCon, Richards and Responding to Conduct Violations
One thing quite noticeable at this year’s PyCon US is that the Python community’s efforts towards increasing diversity are starting to work. More women are attending and children are being included in an integrated way (coding!). To be clear, we still have a long way to go. Twenty percent attendance by women is an improvement, …
Why I Go to Conferences
Usually by 9pm on a given evening, I am winding down, feeling introspective and generally not chatty. However, this Sunday evening I had just arrived home after attending PyCon in Santa Clara, California. Upon realizing I was talking Sherri’s ears off, I stopped to ask, “Am I always like this after I get home from …
Travel, Conferences and Other Work
While updating my expired ssl certificate, I realized I haven’t posted here since just after the first of the year. What have I been doing in all that time? Travel According to TripIt, I’ve traveled 30 out of 78 days of 2013 to 9 cities and 2 countries. That’s 38% of my time spent away …
What I’m Looking Forward to in 2013
Last week I posted my review of 2012. This post talks about what I’m looking forward to about 2013. Settling in to Our New House We were completely done moving into the new house by the end of October, but we’re far from being completely settled in. Our two spare rooms have stacks of unpacked boxes. …