Tag Archives: geektastic

HP Magic Giveaway: Welcome y ¡Bienvenidos!

Posted on November 24, 2008 by Liz Henry

Very soon, I’m going to be giving away a bunch of fantastic computer equipment from HP, as part of the HP Magic Giveaway, co-sponsored by Microsoft Windows Live. I’ll be running a contest here on this blog. You can enter … Continue reading →

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Annoyingly sexist framing of Google VP Marissa Mayer

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Liz Henry

PhotoOriginally uploaded by thisgirlangie As an inoculation to what I am about to expose you to, here is an awesome photo of some ubergeeks from the Google-sponsored Geek Girl Dinner organized by Angie Chang from Woman 2.0. From left: Sumaya … Continue reading →

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Keyboard shortcuts in Thunderbird, and the failures of visual metaphors

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Liz Henry

This is so great, I’m feeling all bouncy! There is a Thunderbird extension, Nostalgy, for using keyboard shortcuts to do everything. I was just feeling super pissy that this didn’t exist, and wishing someone would write it, because I hate … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging for She’s Geeky

Posted on October 22, 2007 by Liz Henry

I’m at the She’s Geeky conference in Mountain View, and I’ll be liveblogging in very raw format. Later this week I’ll come back and clean up this post to make it more coherent and to take out the typos and … Continue reading →

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Wiki Wednesday’s talk on Wiktionary and multilingual collaboration

Posted on September 6, 2007 by Liz Henry

crossposted from my blog at http://socialtext.com September’s Bay Area Wiki Wednesday featured Betsy Megas, a mechanical engineer and Wiktionary administrator, known in the wikiverse as Dvortygirl. She’s a Wiki Wednesday regular and spoke at Wikimania 2006. In her talk, she … Continue reading →

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Organizing BarCampBlock

Posted on August 19, 2007 by Liz Henry

Here’s a few notes on my experience with planning BarCampBlock. A few weeks beforehand we expected around 100-300 people. We had emails from around 5 different office locations in Palo Alto letting us know we could use the space. We … Continue reading →

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People I met at BlogHer; and the swag

Posted on August 5, 2007 by Liz Henry

Here is a giant bigass post with links to all the people I met at Blogher. It was often a blur of meeting people who recognized me because I am recognizable with the purple hair and all. But then I … Continue reading →

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Geek dress code, Silicon Valley version

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Liz Henry

Skud blogged a very funny comparison of geek vs. non-geek dress codes. I think the geek code allows for a more fine-grained analysis! THE GEEK DRESS CODEWith elements of clothing listed in order of ascending formality================================================================ Shirts: Tshirt your mom … Continue reading →

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Vancouver hackathon tomorrow

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Liz Henry

I’ve been having a blast with my co-workers from Socialtext in Vancouver for our hackathon week. I’ve worked, had fun, and gone to a zillion meetings, wheeled around a bit of downtown Vancouver. Last night was the Vancouver.pm Perlmongers meeting, … Continue reading →

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SuperHappyDevHouse: Serial enthusiasm

Posted on March 25, 2007 by Liz Henry

I’m at SuperHappyDevHouse cussing up a storm as my wireless connection goes in and out. I’ve been messing with Kayuda, with Pipes a little, writing up notes, and talking with people who are all showing me nifty software. I just … Continue reading →

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