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Entries from July 2007

best thing of the day

July 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Liberum Helpdesk
It’s free, it’s hackable (in a “make it my own” kind of way), and it made me feel like a geek girl again today (after going brain dead in too damn many meetings) when I got to dig into the code to alter something. tee hee iH@x0r.

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but I want an Oompa Loompa NOW!

July 9th, 2007 · No Comments

My life is such a comedy of errors, I really should have my own troop of green guys in white overalls singing songs that all begin with “What do you get when you”…<insert catch way of saying something dumb just happened here>.

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Tags: life

deceleration of independence

July 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

A random question from a long-time client, colleague, and mentor of mine led me to the blog of Scott Berkun who is apparently someone right up my alley, professionally speaking. The thing that caught my eye was a blog entry on Independence Day, you know, July 4th…fireworks and sweaty guys manning grills sporting tank tops […]

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Tags: politics · random thoughts

wait-er hater

July 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I heart activeCollab…really I do, but those bastards haven’t released a new version since December ‘06 and I’m dyin over here. 1.0 is due out “at the end of the summer”, which apparently means September-ish. Until then I’ll just keep reading the teaser threads and crying myself to sleep.

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Tags: geekd · random thoughts · work

Countdown to HighEdWebDev

July 8th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s just around the corner folks, HEWD 2007 is shaping up to be yet another great conference. This year I’ve been handed the privilege of serving on the Program Committee and as co-chair of the Usability, Accessibility and Design track. Stephanie Leary and I have filtered through the proposals and I’m excited to say it […]

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Chicago Pride Parade

July 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I was at the Pride Parade in Chicago a few weeks ago and took so many pictures Flickr won’t show them all, but you can check em out anyway. See also all photos tagged chicagoprideparade2007.

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Tags: best things · life · pop culture · travel

The best thing of the day

July 8th, 2007 · No Comments

This T-Shirt @ CultClassicTs.com
Seriously, I ROFLMAO and stuff.

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Tags: geekd · pop culture

Lemme just say

July 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Thank god for the open-source uber helpful coder geek world out there. I migrated my blog to a new host and in the process apparently seriously borked something. I couldn’t log into the admin (hence the lag time between posts) and nothing I tried helped. Finally I stumbled upon “Mark on Wordpress” who had a […]

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Tags: geekd · random thoughts