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  • Microsoft #hololens – a non-review

    Microsoft #hololens – a non-review

    So this happened (image above obviously) I went to what seemed like a fairly exciting, if fairly normal She# event yesterday… and then three lightning talks later Rocky Heckman the business development manager from the Hololens team came up. The excitement was actually palpable! This was the super secret hush hush first ever demo of the…

  • Enough already!

    Enough already!

    Coasting down the wave of good kudos from my post on IITP Techblog, where I was applauded for being positive about all this ‘gender stuff’, comes this gem via the Guardian. Go on, go check it out and come on back when you’re done.

  • Unconscious Bias

    Unconscious Bias

    There are just so many articles written about women and tech. We admit that there is a gender gap in hiring, a gender gap in pay and a gender gap in management. We look at the stats and lament at the numbers of girls choosing to start a STEM based degree, and then lament again…

  • From the ARGH Case Files

    WARNING Trigger Warning for mention of child pornography So this article appeared on the Herald today, with the unfortunately horrifically bad headline “Judges living on planet ‘dumb arse’” (note, this is a bad headline because it makes fun of the should-be hallowed institution of our judiciary, and thus will turn off any serious readers instantly)

  • Fun things to do while watching Arrow

    Fun things to do while watching Arrow

    I haven’t blogged since last October, and initially I felt like perhaps my first one back from such a hiatus should be some kind of deep insightful commentary. Then a fun conversation with Stephanie later, I decided to do this instead! So, without further ado, these are some fun things to do while watching Arrow.

  • #IStandWithAhmed and *that* clock

    Certain parts of the internet has been buzzing today because someone called ProudGamer8 tweeted at Richard Dawkins about Ahmed Mohamed and Dawkins is resolutely standing his ground. In case you’ve missed it all, Ahmed is a 14 year old kid who was arrested for possessing what looked like dodgy electronics. He took it to school,…