Shared today on Twitter

RT @CriminelleLaw: So last week, out of the blue, the man who asked me to marry him remarked as follows:

“sometimes I wish you were just a…


RT @Asher_Wolf: You know what’s really grubby? Bullying women on social media. https://t.co/1tvwJUeCFf


She just made me tear up a little bit. Such an inspiration! https://t.co/Af6SxO1kjF


@JamesDestined What happened?


Learning new things. <mantra>Growth mindset. Growth mindset. Growth mindset.</mantra>


RT @yow_conf: There’s still time to get your ticket to our upcoming Business Agility Conference. Come join us in Sydney on 24-25 Sept.
#BAC…


NES, Gameboy, The Sims, CircleMUD, euchre (both real and virtual a la Yahoo Games), Minesweeper, Jezzball, Bejeweled (on my old Handspring Visor), Snake (on my crappy Nokia phone)… https://t.co/MTpcsAUDiq


@JavierInchausti Nope! NES was the last console that I really liked, tbh.


@voltagex …and I found this today too. https://t.co/oJEu8WgnXb (Goodbye, productivity.)


@LapTop006 @voltagex ZOMG I LOVED THAT TOO!


RT @RoaldDahlFans: If you want a fun way to celebrate #RoaldDahlDay, why not test your skills against some Roald Dahl trivia with our Alexa…


@tcn33 Nice callout in the Sizzle today! 👏 @decryption


@lizthegrey Wow, that’s amazing! Kick some ass. 🙂


@AlecMuffett @Asher_Wolf I saw an IoT talk two years ago where the parent had built a system where the lightbulbs would flash when a child got up out of bed. She deliberately made it hackable in the hopes her kid would find a workaround and learn some new coding skills. 😂


On Thursday at the #WinTechSeries conf I talked about my sadness at seeing so many amazing Aussie technical women moving overseas. Got home to find a request from yet another one to use me as a reference for her US visa application. 😢


And it’s her dream job, and I appreciate that. Just sad that we don’t have more of people’s dream jobs HERE.


Such a massive brain drain happening, and I just get depressed about it every now and then.


RT @geeksam: “Master/slave” isn’t even a good metaphor, unless I’m missing the historical example where slaves lived a life identical to th…


@RobMurrish @AlecMuffett @Asher_Wolf Just looked it up – the speaker was @BR3NDA! I always meant to ask how it turned out – did Small Child manage to hack the system?



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