Not all my knitting lately has been pink! Sent this to my lovely cousin @justacogitating.

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Cables cables cables. Pattern is Flavia and wool is from @atelier_yarn!

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Kristine Howard shared a link.

• http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/08/maryam-mirzakhani-first-woman-fields-medal-mathematics

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The talk I gave at WordCamp Sydney last year is finally online! It’s about my 20yo Roald Dahl website, the early history of the web, and how I did a complete rebuild last year on WordPress. (They didn’t intersperse the slides though and the video is randomly zoomed in on me most of the time, so it may be hard to follow without the slide deck: http://www.slideshare.net/WordCampSydney/my-website-is-old-enough-to-vote-kris-howard)

• http://wordpress.tv/2017/02/03/kris-howard-my-website-is-old-enough-to-vote/

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“Mr Cannon-Brookes said opposition to the ban should not be taken just because companies might not be able to employ people with tech skills.

“It should be just the fact that it is a blatantly discriminatory and racist executive order that we should stand up to,” he said.”

I really don’t give Atlassian enough credit these days. Nicely put, Mike.

• http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-30/trumps-racist-immigration-ban-must-be-challenged:-tech-giant/8224796

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Our first @lootwear shipment arrived! Thanks Cindy! Our feet are now sufficiently geeky. ☺

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“…and, above all, it will demean our nation, whose true greatness has been its guiding ideals of fairness, welcome to immigrants, compassion for refugees, respect for religious faith and the courageous refusal to compromise its principles in the face of threats.”

Proud to be ND.

• https://news.nd.edu/news/statement-by-father-john-i-jenkins-csc-president-university-of-notre-dame/

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Most brutal massage ever. BLISS. ☺

• https://www.swarmapp.com/web_goddess/checkin/588c3b5d1e1de56603a5c537?s=2tmjSoCINVlLuZd96lo77p_Gs6s&ref=fb&source=openGraph

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I woke up, read the news, and felt sick. Then I thought of my Iranian friend who moved to the US last year to work in Silicon Valley. Then I set up a recurring donation to the ACLU.

• https://action.aclu.org/donate-aclu?redirect=donate&ms=web_donate_redirect

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I’m going to be giving the first YOW! Night talk in Perth! Hope to meet lots of west coasters. 🙂

• https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/yow-night-2017-perth-kris-howard-feb-07-tickets-31409838673

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This was already one of my favourite possessions. ☺ Thanks @mcgregor_ewan.

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I just realised – as someone who came of age in the era of free online news, this is the first time in my life I’ve ever subscribed to newspaper. (And I even used to work for one!)

• https://membership.theguardian.com/supporter

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I realise that this is a very tiny thing among all the worse things that are happening, but we already have to put up with Rodd getting photographed and finger-printed every time we visit the US. If that situation gets worse, I suspect a lot of Australians (including us) will take our tourist dollars elsewhere.

• https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/34272129/trumps-new-laws-could-hit-aust-tourists/?cmp=st

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If you want to know more about Google Cloud (who are finally launching a local PoP in Australia this year), you should come along to this event in a few weeks. Lynn’s an expert on all three major cloud platforms so she’s a fantastic person to learn from!

• https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/yow-night-2017-sydney-lynn-langit-feb-15-tickets-30508521810

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I could sit in this converted old wool store all day.

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Ouch. Spoiler: Notre Dame is #13. I can’t say I’m hugely surprised.

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html?smid=fb-share

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Technically this awesome shirt is about ovarian cancer, but it works on multiple levels. (Thanks Jenny Manns!)

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Unconditional love. (I swear he spends 50% of his waking hours on Rodd’s lap.)

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Congrats to Canva on the opening of their awesome new ground floor event space! (I covet that arcade machine…)

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Buffy ❤️ FOREVER.

• https://www.instagram.com/p/BPiKOAtFFo1/?taken-by=sarahmgellar

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