Monthly Archives: September 2006

In which theresa is fucking tired.

By theresa | Published: September 28, 2006
You walk out of your office after a frustrating training session with your teaching assistant. Using a f/oss version means that you don’t know it as well as you’d like, which makes it correspondingly difficult to teach the program in a coherent manner. Instead of letting you walk home by yourself, your student [...]
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Makes ya’ think.

By theresa | Published: September 19, 2006
Fourteen things to learn from the Google story also apply remarkably well to development. Because that’s the ideal, right? Creatively solve problems in a way that makes the world a better (or at least more interesting) place and puts money in people’s pockets at the same time. Weirdly inspiring.  
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Birthday, take 2

By theresa | Published: September 17, 2006
It was definitely weird running into some of my students last night in a club. To end my (second day of) birthday festivities, we’d finally made it downtown to dance the night away to some pretty good live music. We were in remarkably good shape, considering it was after midnight, and we’d started [...]
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On birthdays and clean clothes

By theresa | Published: September 12, 2006
My birthday was incredible (as they usually are). I am now, as I have been elsewhere in life, blessed with amazing friends. So thanks, everyone. I’m going to wrap up the celebrations with a small fête this weekend. The culinary preparations have commenced, and the food is going to be absolutely [...]
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By theresa | Published: September 4, 2006
The web design market in Benin isn’t necessarily underdeveloped; however, there’s a pretty serious lack of professionals with real design skills. There are a number of firms out there creating boring static webpages with Dreamweaver, which would be fine, except that there’s a severe lack of understanding of the underlying concepts. No problem, [...]
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