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Re: This Isn’t Feminism, It’s Technology

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:58:36 -0000

I had to sit on this post for a bit before I could reply. You know I love you, but at the same time, you haven't been out in the tech workforce. Blogging is just a subset of the tech world.

I'd had to work for men who knew less than I did, but got promoted over me for no good reason. I've been FIRED for pointing out that these same men were wasting company resources by outsourcing work to agencies (not offshore, mind you) and consultants that we were already able to do in-house, simply because they didn't understand the technology that their "less qualified" employees did.

I'm far from world's biggest feminist, but I've worked in either tech or engineering industries in one form or another for over 15 years. When I first started out in the workforce after college, I assumed women already WERE equal, but it's not the case. We still have to shout to be heard.

Re: Safari’s Memory Issues Larger Than Firefox’s?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:07:26 -0000

Check it out... keep in mind I have a dual-core 2.33 GHz MBP with 3.0 GB RAM, but see why I don't use Safari?

http://img.skitch.com/20080319-ma6auuh8aghmstmm...

Firefox there has two windows open with a total of about 93 tabs or so.

Re: Is Apple’s Jealousy Of Microsoft Surfacing?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:55:39 -0000

Color me crazy, but that's the way our Apple updates have always come in. They toss everything in there, and they have these neato little checkboxes that you can UNCLICK if you don't want something. In fact, I went ahead and didn't install today's update, NOT EVEN THE SECURITY UPDATE. There's this cute little button that allows me to just not install ANYTHING.

Sheeple is my word of the day. If people are too lazy and/or stupid to read what they are installing and then click or unclick depending on their needs, then they shouldn't be allowed to have a computer in the first place.

Then again, AOL in its heyday was reliant on people knowing they HAD to install that CD that arrived in the mail, right?

/rolling of eyes

Sorry. I can't get all het up about this one.

Re: Techmeme: A Flawed System

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:22:43 -0000

Thanks Corvida for the vitriol. ;)

@jongos What constitutes a "reputable" source? I know that Profy gets scanned by Techmeme, because we've been listed as discussion links. As a writer, I shrug it off, but as a person, it's difficult to consistently be relegated to the D-List when you broke the story two days before the source that gets the headline, and ergo, the eyeballs.

Re: If Twitter Were An Airline…

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:14:49 -0000

It would be JetBlue, for sure. ;)

Re: New From Google: Google Acquisition Engine

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:33:52 -0000

Well, that certainly explains forcing everyone to Python. Does that mean they will NEVER support Rails though?

Re: New From Google: Google Acquisition Engine

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:14:05 -0000

Mac, I absolutely read it. But they don't say what languages they will eventually support, nor when, and based on Gmail being in beta for over four years now, I expect nothing different.

Why would Amazon want to "follow suit?" Google is chasing THEM, not the reverse. Amazon offers a real virtual machine, and charges only based on what services you will use. Why should I pay for Big Table if I don't use it? Amazon doesn't lock developers into a specific API. If I were still doing development, the choice would be obvious, and it certainly wouldn't be GAE.

@Ed My understanding is that Ruby in any form is not used internally at Google. Which makes me wonder if they'll ever support it in GAE at all.

Re: California Assemblyman Introduces "iTax Much"

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:08:17 -0000

You know what? I'd love to see it. You'd finally see eyes open to start-ups that are outside the Valley, something I've hoped for since 1.0. The tech industry needs a larger world view.

Re: Lies I've Told My 3-Year-Old Recently

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:08:05 -0000

That's nothing. My husband has told children that baths were really preparation of Baby Soup for the sewer people. ;)

Re: The Blogosphere is Mini-Hollywood…NOT!

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:46:53 -0000

At the point at which money is being thrown at people with zero business experience, at the point at which people are on covers of magazines like Wired and other mainstream press for doing exactly nothing, at at the point at which people like Mike Arrington are considered influencers (like the Time 100 list), then yes, it matters. If we want the joe six-packs to adopt and appreciate tech, we need to not look like a bunch of blowhards and bimbos when presenting it.

Re: Data Portability Evangelists Get Out of Line

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:39:12 -0000

Standing ovation from me!

Re: Social Network Profiles Are the New Email

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:20:32 -0000

The only social networking site I would EXPECT to find Boomers on is LinkedIn. If they have kids and are responsible enough to want to check up on them, they might be on FB.

Re: Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:44:51 -0000

I'm surprised no one has seen it in action; it seems geared toward new users when they add you. I've used it for my less-social-app-literate friends who might not already know to comb through friend lists to see who else you both know is on there.

Re: 2007/03/23/myspace-ban/

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:58:02 -0000

Wow. Catholic school survivor here, and it's nice to see things haven't changed a bit. The real idiots here are the parents, however, for not standing up to the school. What is a better idea? Letting your kid have a MySpace profile you can monitor and KNOWING what he's doing online or letting the school tell you to tell him he CAN'T have one, so he sneaks off and recreates one behind your back and then you have NO idea what he's doing online.

AT some point, the Catholic Church will acknowledge that the 20th century occurred. I have no hopes of them joining us in the 21st.

Re: Why Google Is Making Us Dumber

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:14:40 -0000

Of course I use the Intarwebs to look up phone numbers. The phone book gets out of date very quickly, and they are getting smaller and smaller to the point you can't even read the text. And directory assistance costs MONEY.

And if anyone wants to know why "search this site" is better than most of the in-site searches? Try finding a product on Epinions.com using their in-house designed search, then try Google. Half the time, their search says a product isn't even ON the site. It's a time-waster, and more likely to make me leave the site. Google isn't making me dumber; it's helping me search smarter.

Re: 2007/05/18/socializr-evite-row-continues/

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Fri, 18 May 2007 09:29:00 -0000

I totally see the similarities! Six-pointed snowflakes (oh wait... aren't all snowflakes six-pointed?), blue theme (oh wait, isn't the generic winter color theme blues and whites?).

Too bad Evite can't focus on improving the service (which really needs it) rather than a playground brawl on the Intarweb.

Re: 2007/05/18/moveon-myspace/

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sat, 19 May 2007 09:25:31 -0000

MoveOn is off base. There is no freedom of speech when it comes to corporations. It's only citizens' rights to speak out against the government, and a corporation doesn't have to allow them a venue to do it. If you want to have complete freedom, you buy your own domain and run your own server.

Re: 2007/05/20/death-by-lawyer/

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sun, 20 May 2007 10:26:32 -0000

If the stupid RIAA had any idea of how many CDs I went out and bought because of stuff I found on Napster. Little-known albums that hardly sell at allk, niche acts... something would pop up on a search and you'd download it and be introduced to something you'd never heard before.

Shoot... I still do that, only it's not as easy or handed to you on MySpace. It was the accidental stumbling on Napster that got me into a whole SLEW of new-to-me acts.

Re: 2007/09/02/gpay/

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:40:01 -0000

Yet another example that the USPTO is completely out of control. Obopay already exists. They were funded in the beginning of March of '06. Then PayPal jumps on the bandwagon... and Google gets the patent? I'm thinking of a word that starts with cluster...

Re: 2008/03/21/max-emily-twitter-proposal/

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:37:51 -0000

@sbostedor: Amen! I met my husband online in a chat room in 1995, but I think there are some things that should still be done offline: sex, proposals, and death (not necessarily in that order), although I'm sure my husband would be disappointed if all sex were kept offline.

Re: 2008/04/05/shezoom/

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:00:13 -0000

You forgot the other horror of Sk*rt. ;)

Re: http://gary.tumblr.com/post/78884559

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:24:26 -0000

OMG... the sweater that your mom made... I think I just cried right there. And I generally don't even like green.

Re: http://gary.tumblr.com/post/78889656

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:42:03 -0000

Sorry, Gary. All your bars, they be here. AT&T/Cingular/AT&T/NewNameNextWeek is the ONLY carrier that doesn't have miles-wide dead zones here in Western NY. We tried Sprint, Verizon & T-Mobile before stumbling on AT&T, which works everywhere. Apparently, we have snuffled up everyone's bars for our own use.

Re: Today’s Whiny MacMeme Is…

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:27:35 -0000

A shame the world expects the sad Windows sheeple to know how to unclick a BOX to keep from installing what they do not want. Apparently, since the updater wasn't written in LOLcat, it was too difficult to understand?

Re: Personal Blogging, Women on the Web, Trolls, Etc

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:52:43 -0000

Threats yes. Splog trackbacks and spammers, yes. But I never delete insults. If everyone agreed with me, I'd be bored to tears. I've also been pretty successful at keeping my professional self separate from my personal self. Aside from IP tracking, that is. I should probably use anonymizing sites a little bit more in that regard.

Re: NH Joins The Anti-Real Id Bandwagon

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sat, 26 May 2007 12:52:33 -0000

The problem with the "perfect ventiliation" is that costs way more for a business than any perceived loss of customer base that smokes. That is wicked expensive to implement.

NYS has had the smoking ban in place for years. The bar owners, who griped and carried on, actually found that their business wasn't impacted like they anticipated. People who drink don't stop drinking just because they can't smoke. And they get more people going out who didn't before because of the smoke.

Keep in mind that even 9.5 years after I quit, I still want a butt in my hand when a beer's in the other. But smoking is a hard one to call personal choice on, because it isn't a self-contained choice. I can remember my sister's asthma being so bad as a child she'd have an attack the second my grandparents lit up, even in the next room.

Re: Busy Today

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:42:02 -0000

I'm so het up I blogged about it twice.

Shakesspeare I Ain't

Re: Busy Today

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:42:19 -0000

The ZenFrog Blog

(Second link... your blog hates me this week)

Re: North Carolina startup to take on Quickbooks

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:16:48 -0000

If they can manage it and come in at under the ridiculous QuickBooks price, especially for those like me who have only a 1099 expense... able to be tracked in a spreadsheet but would like to have something more intuitive, it's a win.

Re: Loren Feldman's Tech Blogger Puppetry

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:57:08 -0000

The sad thing is that the puppets really are funnier than Loren's own videos.

When did Scoble become Mammy from GWTW? "I don't know NOTHIN' bout birthin' no FriendFeeds!"

Re: BoomTown Decodes Microsoft's Steve Ballmer's Letter to Yahoo (The Kiss-Off Edition)

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Sun, 04 May 2008 10:11:35 -0000

Hilarious, as always. Only you could meld references to U2, Shakespeare, Terminator, and is that Yoda?

Re: Memo to Don Graham: Thar He Blows...

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:52:07 -0000

Well, better the WaPo see this now than six months in, right?

Throwing in their lot with a single tech blog instead of following a model more similar to Blogburst was asking for something like this. The blog world gets into pissing matches all the time, and either they knew that and decided that any press is good press or they thought it would stop once TC was associated with the WaPo is anyone's guess. In the end, however, everyone who lays down with dogs comes up with fleas.

Re: Memo to Jerry: Mark Cuban, Jethro Tull and Thee!

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:03:33 -0000

We'll all be eating SnoCones in hell before that ever happens. I have five bucks to contribute, though, if you are taking a collection.

Re: BoomTown Talks to a Puppet

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:13:42 -0000

You end up hating yourself for watching it. Sort of like reality tv.