Okay so nobody from Microsoft made the list, but EBay, IBM, HP and Oracle are represented. Though of course these are business women, not I.T.
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I still have to get the pic of Hilton and me that Kate took, but here is a photo of me with Thea, Ernst and Armand – not only bloggers but user group leaders as well.
Here are some from Thea’s blog
This is Thea, me, Armand and Ernst
Armand and Ernst petting the cubs while they were very busy working on a cow’s leg. It was a big leg but they are really on it like glue. That’s me, Kate and Oskar’s foot. Oskar was great – gave us a tour of the lion park.
I also learned how to pronounce my friend’s names properly. To translate for us Americans: Thea is “tee-a”, Ernst is “Air-enst” and Armand is Armand, just the way we thought!
One of the places I plan to checkout while at DevConnections next week is Lucille’s BBQ.
Lucille’s has 6 California locations and one just south of Vegas in Henderson, NV.
It is BBQ & live blues (on Fri & Sat nights) – and is owned by a couple who owns some of my parents’ newfies.
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VS2005 and SQL Server 2005 are live and on MSDN Online now. Good luck trying to get them though! The servers are getting quite the workout.
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Champlain College offers the first college level e-gaming program and it is headed up by two women…[read more …]
[A DevLife post]
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There was a big messy wet snow storm earlier this week in Vermont while I was in hot sunny South Africa. The power went out all over the place and was slowly restored over the next day or so. However the northeastern part of Vermont was slammed really hard. The electric company that provides power there is the same one that we are on so they are having a lot of trouble and we still have no power. Here’s the latest article from the local paper on that. Listening on the radio last night I heard them say that the damage to powerlines (and electric poles) was worse even than in the ice storm of 1998.
Luckily I am married to a guy who is a super-camper and we have a small generator to boot. The generator is inverted power so we are running the computers and the refrigerator for a little while. As we have a gas powered stove, Rich made not only eggs for breakfast, but used a campfire toaster to make us toast this morning. Rich also was smart enough to fill both bathtubs before the power went out (we had perfect conditions for an outage so he is one of those great “be prepared” kinda guys) so we can even flush the toilets. We have a gas fireplace in the office and in the living room – so since it’s not that cold out, this is keeping the house perfectly fine. The only place where I notice any real inconvenience is the inability to take a real shower and wash my hair.
However as I just typed the word hair – guess WHAT!?! The power came on. Yahoo! I’m gonna go wash my hair!!!
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(This was written on Sunday) After a long bumpy night we have finally arrived at Sun City. Kate is a good airplane sleeper. I woke up at 4 and couldn’t get back to sleep then did then was startled by some big turbulence at 6. Kate slept through it all! Both of our flights on Lufthansa coming to South Africa were on Business Class – which was unexpected and very nice of the organizers. I have never flown business class before. It was very nice, including being able to go in the lounges at the airport.
Unfortunately, Kate’s luggage didn’t make it to Johannesburg but should be here tomorrow. The drive from “Joburg” to here was beautiful. Some of it reminded me of New Mexico – the red sandy hills, the scrub but other than that it is just unique. Some reality checks were noticing the very very think cattle grazing on whatever they can find. They are free range – like wandering in the highway free range! We also drove by a number of compounds with a variety of small metal and other types of shacks. This is where people live. I have never seen that before. I had a very bad position for taking photographs but the image will remain.
I am now in the speaker lounge and it’s fun to meet a whole new crew of people.
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