LinuxChix Los Angeles

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.

So say I.
Enjoy March 14, Pi Day.

A lot more SCALE 8x pictures have been posted on Flickr.com.  Just use the SCALE8x search to see them all.  Here are some more LinuxChix LA at SCALE 8x highlights:

Enjoy!

/JilliX

Another wonderful SCALE was enjoyed by all. And we have to wait another year to enjoy this “tuxfiled” vacation. Sigghhhh . . .

Here are some of Beth Lynn Eicher’s candid pictures from SCALE 8x uploaded to Flickr

And here is my LinuxChix LA slideshow that was running on my Chumby at our LinuxChix LA Booth at SCALE 8X!:

LinuxChix LA Chumby Slideshow

Also, this is another post on SCALE 8x WIOS by Scott Ruecker at LXer.com that will fill in the gaps that our LinuxChix LA live WIOS blog post missed:

SCALE 8x: Day 1 – WIOS Talks

These are just the first SCALE pics and articles online . . . wait another few days and there will be hundreds more
To be continued . . .

/JilliX

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages posted by James Iry is a wonderfully funny, and irreverent look at software development. My favorite?

1987 – Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall’s forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall’s monitor isn’t random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born.

Yup, that’s Perl.

Makes me think of my history (herstory?). The first computer I ever worked on was the Apple IIe that included the C/PM card for the full 80 column computer experience. Ah, the memories of WordStar and playing Pong on that Apple.

More LinuxChixLA Pics from SCALE 7x!

Found while perusing Flickr!  The SCALE 7x pics our starting to visually explode on the net.  These ones make good background pics for all our Linux boxes

Oh my, I had a great time. How do the SCALE organizers manage the organized chaos that is a three day conference so cheerfully and competently year after year. Just amazing well run venue.

Sharing a few of my favorite photos from SCALE 7x. See you next year!

Or so sez Encyclopaedia Britannica in this physorg.com article which reports the august online encyclopedia is set to allow limited editing/contributions by the general public.

Wikipedia contributes to the spread of information and many people are happy with it as their only source of reference, as are many people happy to eat McDonalds every day.

UPDATE: Oh my, so now Wikipedia is planning to restrict editing free-for-all with something called “Flagged Revisions” in response to Wiki-vandals.