Brief

A couple of weeks ago Tim gave me a project to write a piece about geek girls. This has rapidly turned into a marathon effort.
The general story is we are looking at the two apparent types of geek girls, those who use their gender of girlness to blog in the geek world, and those geeks who just happen to be girls.

We were initially just going to link to some sites of examples but now feel that we would get much more mileage from interviewing some geek girls. So far at least 5 have agreed and we are hoping for some more.

What we really wanted to get at is the heart of the blogger in question. Why do they blog the way they do, how do they see themselves in the world of geeks?

I am a rare owl. The rare owl is part green tree frog and part dog. I am called a rarebaby owl dogafrog.

Personal

• Erin

I have started to realise that being 40 <> being 24 or even 34.

Yesterday I was up at 7:30 and off to an activity day for the kids. I was coaching discus for 4 hours to a bunch of kids aged 8 to 18. After that I went to the PE coaching class I run for 2 hours that involved a fair amount of running around. We drove home and basically the minute I got home I got changed and went straight back out to AFL football training. By the time I got home from that I was wrecked!. A long hot shower and a foot massage by Judith helped, but this morning I have some muscle soreness! Today is my rest day. Tomorrow I have basketball coaching and Friday I will be running long jump all day for a sports day - 126 kids to supervise!

I need to get a bionic body!

Personal

• football
• coaching
• exercise

Thanks for bearing me, birthing me, raising me and loving me.

Thanks for being you!

Happy Mother's day Mum.

Here's a picture of Mum in her hat and another of Mum and me computing together.

Personal

• family

So far I have installed XP Service pack 3 as follows:

Brand New XP installation P4 1GB Ram - Went really fast and no errors

Virtual Machine - went real slow but no errors

Existing machine P4 1GB Ram - extremely slow - no errors

Existing machine P3 512MB Ram - extremely slow - 1 error - couldn't copy atapi.sys from c:\windows\system32\drivers. After a bit of research I simply deleted the atapi.sys file and closed daemon tools.

Microsoft

• Windows XP
• patches

So I am now using Xobni - the new email revolution software.

I have some invites - who wants them - comments please. (

Xobni is the Outlook plug-in that helps you organize your flooded inbox.

Comments from their website:

Sidebar View of Past Conversations & Attachments

Don't waste time hunting for information buried in email - everything is right there in the sidebar.

Lightning Fast Email Search

Locate lost attachments, contacts, conversations and more with search that responds as you type.

"Bill Gates called Xobni the next generation of
social networking."

Microsoft

• Outlook
• plugin

Start: 21 Jun 2008 - 9:00am

End: 21 Jun 2008 - 11:59pm

This event is going to be a combined event with RAW WAR and is at Rivers Baptist Church 90 Francis Road. we will be running a UT2004 Tournament. Details below.

LAN Format is as follows:

• 9am setup
• 10am free play
• 5pm install set up and test UT2004
• 7pm tournament starts
• 11pm tournament finishes and prizes
• 11:30pm packup
• 12am depart

Cost

• $12 including Pizza for dinner
• No lunch provided
• Network cables and power boards supplied

UT2004 Tournament details.

We will run a UT2004 tournament from 7PM to 11PM with prizes.

• This will be run in teams of 4 - if you don't have a team or only part of a team we will randomly assign players or bots to assist.
• If you do not have the correct version installed (6.39) and ready to play by 7PM we will start without you. We will provide mods and maps.
• Each team will play others on a predetermined roster and culminate in a semi final and grand final.
• Each team will choose a map and game type and play the other team with their choice as well - eg 2 games per round. Each round will be time limited and will be synchronised.
• We might just throw in a couple of special all in rounds as well.
• Results will be collected at the end of each round and collated by tournament admin - its is the team's obligation to make sure this happens.
• Arbitration will be settled out in the carpark with a foam sword fight!
• Thanks to new sponsors TerraMedia for tournament prizes

Log in and sign up for the event on the website www.krostech.biz to get a free drink voucher.

Technology

• gaming

A new family has come to our church and the 5 kids make up an awesome band. Named Freak Morice they played on Friday night for a school chaplaincy fund raising movie night we held.

I videoed them using my mobile phone camera and with their permission uploaded them to YouTube. Check out the Freak Morice MySpace site. All their songs are original written and composed material. They range in age from 16 to 8 in age. I have uploaded 5 videos to my Alborath YouTube account.

Internet

• video

Personal

• friends