JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

or at least a programming book In the same week that our Squeak programming book arrived from Amazon, Jill at misbehaving.net pointed to statistics on kids and women in computers, ending her post with the admonition: Buy your daughters computers!. That same week also Nat Torkington noted my desire for interviews with hackers and posted […]

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Thanks to Nathan Torkington, my daughter is in love with a Tamiya robot horse she’s named Truggy. It all began this fall when I read Nathan’s post on O’Reilly Radar describing how he and his six-year-old son built a robot together. So when time came for Santa to go shopping, she looked for the same […]

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You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone. But I can try to cherish and recognize what I have now. Last Tuesday I had planned to go to the January East Side Weblog Meetup 7 pm at Crossroads Mall. Trying to combine multiple goals into one ferry trip, as a matter of efficiency, I […]

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While visiting the Post Office on the island, I noticed a tree blooming with fragrant pink blossoms. I don’t know if the end of December is an appropriate time for this tree to begin blooming. We have had some unusually warm weather in recent weeks, following our heavy frost and snow in late November and […]

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This week I’m disgusted and frustrated after spending hours shopping for clothing. Ted and I in recent months have needed to add to our wardrobes. This need for new clothes was in part driven by the appearances we are making at conferences and meetings. I also hadn’t bothered to buy many outfits during my years […]

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