Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-13

  • Was glued to tv watching the footage of tsunami/earthquake in Japan and complete devastation. My heart and thoughts are with them. #
  • Awesome! My prize for somehow winning the tweeting comp at #girlgeeksyd yay! RT @katsbud prize! #girlgeeksyd 🙂 http://twitpic.com/48b79v #
  • Just joining @nerdgerl's efforts in getting @hexsteph to come along and give a talk to a #girlgeeksyd dinner, that would TOTALLY ROCK! 🙂 #
  • Is it possible that, as humans, we might be able to evolve beyond our frustrating persistent need for drama? News headlines getting funnier #
  • Great article RT @annabelcrabb: Today's IWD column — Behind every successful woman there's a wife #IWD2011 http://t.co/qdY3cnh #
  • Emily Baxter talking about "Taking the wannabe out of wannabe Girl Geek". Interesting 🙂 #girlgeeksyd She has worked for tech media too 🙂 #
  • Baxter giving gr8 talk about getting constructive feedback on yourself. I reckon it's def hard at times to see yourself clearly #girlgeeksyd #
  • Baxter talking about awesomeness of meeting new ppl who know cool things & challenge of not comparing oneself & feeling lesser #girlgeeksyd #
  • Had to retweet to #girlgeeksyd 🙂 RT @nambor "Digital Proctologist" – now that would be a business card 8) #
  • Veugelen now talking about social engineering & using Adobe security flaw to access someone else's computer. Must look this up #girlgeeksyd #
  • Veugelen now talking about port sniffing & is using http://nmap.org/, great way to interrogate your network for security holes #girlgeeksyd #
  • Once I tripled network responsiveness of client by sniffing network, identifying a dumb unnecessary protocol & killing it 🙂 #girlgeeksyd #
  • Anyone at #girlgeeksyd interested in security/forensics foo, check out http://www.wireshark.org/ to listen to and assess your network 🙂 #
  • Veugelen: More security attacks happen at the application layer as it is more vulnerable due to web apps access to network. #girlgeeksyd #
  • Damnit! Surely at a geek event security people shouldn't be using "hacker" in vain! He's talking about "crackers" #girlgeeksyd ppl 🙂 #
  • Veugelen: "Change from script kiddies pre 2006 to professional crackers in 2010". This guy really needs to watch sneakers 🙂 #girlgeeksyd #
  • Wouter Veugelen says he's honoured to be speaking at #girlgeeksyd as a man & invites any women to join his security team. I <3 forensics! 🙂 #
  • Smail: Women avoid conversations about salary negotiation. Men initiate salary discussions 4 times women. Interesting at #girlgeeksyd #
  • Salary negotiation from Smail: women earn on average 12% less than men for same job, biggest diff in executive level (av 18%) #girlgeeksyd #
  • Jo Smail on career devel: "1) Find awesome mentors 2) Embrace your geekiness and go deep 3) Self development, constantly learn" #girlgeeksyd #
  • Heh 🙂 RT @nerdgerl Even Microsoft want IE6 dead. Friends don't let friends use IE6. #girlgeeksyd #
  • What gov dataset do you want to see released? Suggest it on the new shiny data.gov.au at http://data.gov.au/suggest/ #gov2au #opendata #
  • Hey @damana! *hugs* Yes @kcarruthers is close by, but I tend to try to stay away from politics. I'm all about the policy man 😉 #
  • Hey @scruzin thought you might like this 🙂 http://bit.ly/fXRD09 "Cycling in New South Wales: What the data tells us” & related data #gov2au #
  • AWESOME! Blog post from Minister Gary Gray about new shiny http://data.gov.au released today. http://bit.ly/gzpbWS Give your feedback! 😀 #
  • Heh, nice quote 🙂 Kraus: "Never grow a wishbone when you should have grown a backbone" #girlgeeksyd #
  • Kraus: How to succeed 1) Have plan, don't leave to chance 2) Don't appear to lack confidence 3) Be at least aware of the "game" #girlgeeksyd #
  • Loving some of the fashion at #girlgeeksyd loving that I'm comfortable loving clothes *&* geeking out, took a while to get here 🙂 #
  • Kraus: "If you look around & can say ppl got where they are truly on merit, we don't need board targets, but isn't the case" #girlgeeksyd #
  • Lynn Kraus on "breaking the glass ceiling": "we're at a crossroads, orgs need to focus on flexible working conditions" #girlgeeksyd #
  • The smell of beer on the carpet is always a good start to #girlgeeksyd 🙂 see some of you here soon 🙂 http://t.co/AK3u6qz #
  • Wow! Currently there is a special for countrylink till end of April, Canberra to Sydney for $29 🙂 cheaper than petrol+parking for sure! #
  • Just saw a naked ducati, still a beautiful bike even without faring 🙂 #
  • RT @lif_au Five Important Points About Flexibility And Work/Life Balance http://bit.ly/f89Dvx /cc @katelundy #
  • Anyone in Canberra involved in FOSS business may be interested in going along to an OSIA meeting 🙂 http://osia.net.au/ #
  • Wow, anyone know who runs this? http://nbnexplained.org/ Very interesting and apparently community driven initiative 🙂 #nbn #
  • Currently playing with Google Fusion Tables for generating maps. Seems much nicer than Google Earth spreadsheet thingy. #opendata #datavis #
  • Yass is def *not* the place to be if you wake up with raging tonsils, nowhere open with aspirin or anything else useful. Resorting to salt #
  • Social media lesson #74 Don't try to coordinate coffee with ppl via Twitter when the location may be an Internet black hole. #
  • Want to make a Google map from a spreadsheet of stuff? I always lose this url, so this is also for me 😉 http://bit.ly/adPGtM #
  • I'm coming up to Sydney this Thursday for the Sydney Girl Geek dinner. Should be fun & techie, see some of you there 🙂 http://t.co/LG9O1u5 #
  • "Programming is as much an art as music is" nice quote from Trent Reznor http://tv.digg.com/diggdialogg/trentreznor #
  • Know a clever geek in gov? Nominate them for 2011 Government ICT awards b4 29th Mar! 🙂 http://bit.ly/h1O3rH #gov2au #opengov #opendata #
  • Differences between driving a car and riding a road bike #1 in a car you turn a corner, on a bike you *own* the corner 🙂 #

One thought on “Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-03-13”

  1. Good to see you’re getting into the spirit of riding. I hear you have some largish mountains in your rough vicinity.

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