Mar 28th, 2010 Posted in And You Did What? Where?, Tux for Fun | No Comments »
It was Lorie and Sharon! On a trip down from the hinterlands Lorie zipped by and up to the Griffith Park Observatory we went for a quick hike to the top of Mt. Hollywood, and afterwards saw cosmic ray contrails in the cloud chamber (2002 Kuro5hin story on how to roll your own cloud chamber).
Then of course we balanced the outdoor healthy hike with a trip to Pinks for chili cheese hot dogs and onion rings.
We had a great time and decided to do this again soon. Look to the mailing list for the next scheduled Griffith Park hike day.
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Lorie at the summit of Mt. Hollywood. Yes, that is a hazy Pacific Ocean behind her.
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Interesting totem pole by the side of the trail.
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The trail not taken.
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Another trail not taken.
Mar 26th, 2010 Posted in F/LOSS News | No Comments »
Wednesday was the second annual Ada Lovelace Day 
“Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science.”
http://findingada.com/about/
http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu/Women-In-Near-and-Around-Ubuntu-Celebrating-Ada-Lovelace-Day-Part-1
I was listening to my favorite Linux podcast streams on my Chumby late last night and whose wonderful voice did I hear, Amber Graner! Amber, whom of course, we know and love from SCALE and gave a wonderful talk at this years SCALE WIOS etc. was interviewed on FLOSS Weekly in celebration of Ada Lovelace Day!!!!!
Hosts: Jono Bacon and Leo Laporte
Ubuntu volunteer, Amber Graner, talks about getting more women involved in Open Source.
FLOSS Weekly is one of my favorite Open Source streams on Leo’s TWIT Netcast Network and on the internet period! I am so happy that FLOSS Weekly made sure to talk about the achievements of women in technology and science by doing an Ada Lovelace Day celebration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/jillix
Mar 14th, 2010 Posted in Tux for Fun | No Comments »
So say I.
Enjoy March 14, Pi Day.
Google Doodle for Pi Day
Tags: Google, pi day
Mar 6th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
The excellent SCALE presentation on Open Molar – open source dental practice management was highlighted at LinuxMedNews this week. The audio of the presentation is up at the SCALE site – slides are to follow.
I don’t know what else to add, other than this is an exemplar of what can accomplished with some determination and open source tools. It isn’t acceptable to lock up healthcare systems in proprietary systems (a driver for this project) – there are alternatives, including rolling-your-own.
