brenda wallace
15 seconds fame as "Wellington's Brenda Wallace cruises to victory in predictions contest"
There are lotsa quotes of stuff i said in this Computer World story by Stephen Bell :
"Wellington's Brenda Wallace cruises to victory in predictions contest"
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/technology/android-boosted-ipad-dism...
Well-known Wellington geek Brenda Wallace cruised to victory for the second year running, in developer group Unlimited Potential’s contest for the best predictions for ICT in the year ahead.
A growing number of organisations, especially government agencies, will choose open-source software during 2010, for the wrong reasons, Wallace predicts. Referring to the Public Sector Remix open-source desktop trial, she says, “I suspect they’re doing it because Microsoft wouldn’t give them the price they wanted. I hope they’ll stay open-source, because it gives them freedom and control and breaks a monopoly.”
Libraries will begin renting e-books, she says. More tablet computers will enter the market, running “quasi-operating systems” such as Google’s Android rather than full-blown Linux, Apple or Windows; “but users won’t know or care about the OS; they’ll just use [the devices].”
The move to open government “will get creepy”, Wallace says, observers will “stalk” politicians, reporting their movements through Twitter and other real-time forums. “I’d like to see them do it to the lobbyists,” she says; “I’d like to know who they’re having lunch with.”
That tiara
Tonight i defend my claim to a sparkly pink tiara at Bloggers Predict 2010
Thursday 28 January 2010
5:30pm - 8:00pm
Where: Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce, level 28, The Majestic Centre, 100 Willis Street
The 2010 lineup
Brenda Wallace (@br3nda) Current tiara-holder, Brenda was UP Visionary of the year for 2009, can she defend her title in 2010? The Capital City’s geek girl extraordinaire and queen bee of the software community, Brenda is to mobile technology and open source what honey is to brown bread, she makes it taste better! Brenda blogs on Coffee.geek.nz about coffee, gadgets, opensource, wellington, new zealand, music, and above all things: freedom.
Philip Fierlinger (@skyrize) From Silicon Valley to Silicon Welly, Philip’s web design expertise and has been eagerly sought after by online businesses and conference-goers alike. Currently design chief at Xero, blogger at Turntable Media Philip’s passion for web usability also led him to establish his own consultancy.
Mauricio Freitas (@freitasm) Geekzone head honcho and microblogging enthusiast. If there’s a new gadget being launched you can be sure Mauricio has an opinion about it. Been renovating his kitchen for last 6 months and has forgotten how to cook, however is on first name basis with all the (good) cafe owners in town. Possibly Wellington’s most avid “Tweeter”.
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Black Screens: Brenda Wallace from the Wellington activist community discusses kiwi government tactics to reduce internet freedoms. Karl is back form NZ and whips thru the growing media storm we are building with co-host Alice Bleby. Dont forget Speed Renting next Tues 17th.
How to change the author in git
I had some projects stored in git, that i work on while on a plane -- and i didn't have my git env set up so it ended up with "brenda" as the author. To clean this up, here's the command"
git filter-branch --commit-filter '
if [ "$GIT_COMMITTER_NAME" = "brenda" ];
then
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="Brenda Wallace";
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Brenda Wallace";
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="shiny@cpan.org";
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="shiny@cpan.org";
git commit-tree "$@";
else
git commit-tree "$@";
fi' HEAD
geeks
Some of the geeks from Webstock mini.
Matt, who has something to do with Internet Explorer.

Nigel, geek, and Aucklander (but i don't hold that against him)

Mike, "Social Networker" who blogs about Enterprise (but i don't hold that against him)

Kris, font geek. Gave his talk with beer in hand. heh. I must emulate.

Wellington event hosts free software advocate Richard Stallman
Some shameless self promotion by me:
http://www.up.org.nz/gadgets-games-geeks-08
Free software advocate Richard Stallman is in New Zealand for a limited time to speak about copyright and share his experiences establishing the world’s first free user operating system.
A pioneer in ICT circles, US-based Stallman controversially started a movement based around sharing source code back in the 1970s when programming was still in its infancy and launched the development of the GNU operating system (www.gnu.org) in 1984.
- brenda wallace
- economic betterment
- electronic frontier foundation
- filibuster
- free software advocate
- gnu linux
- gnu org
- grace hopper
- honorary doctorates
- linux system
- macarthur foundation fellowship
- magnum mac
- main event
- pioneer award
- richard stallman
- shameless self promotion
- snapper
- tone magazine
- wednesday 13
- wellington town hall
Wellington postgresql users' group meeting is tomorrow
6pm @ Catalyst, level 4
Speaker + topics =
Brenda Wallace Heap-Only Tuples
Jonathan Harker Full Text Search
Mark Kirkwood Optimising the Planner
Sam Vilain Implementing Transactions and Nested
Tim Goddard Top-n Sorting
Level four, 150 Willis street, Wellington
Press
Collected "Press"
Google Open Source Blog - Wellington Girl Geek Dinners
By Brenda Wallace, Catalyst IT and Geek Girl at Large
Slides from PHPUG
Memcache
Overview
How does it work?
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nifty features
Who uses it?
Where?
the joke that is lenova's online shop
I place an order, and 2 days later i get this emailYour Lenovo order: Order # CA###### has been receivedFrom: lenovopc@au.lenovo.comTo: 1hooewl@my.lenovo.com, 1sahar@my.lenovo.com, empsale@au.lenovo.com, lenovopc@au.lenovo.com, brenda@catalyst.net.nzDate: 15/03/07 17:06 Dear Brenda Wallace,Order informationThank you for visiting Lenovo. Your order has been received and transferred to a Lenovo Customer Representative. This e-mail confirms receipt of your order to Lenovo.......
Perl Mongers, Valentines edition
Last night, the eve of valentines day, the occured the annual lightning talks installment of Wellington Perl Mongers
Grant McLean spoke on "Why XML::Simple Sucks" - and advised fellow mongers to never put the word "simple" in a cpan module. He gave the following example of emails he gets for support:
Dear Mr McLean
I have downloaded your module and am having a little
trouble making it work.
I'm pretty new to XML and I've never used Perl before.
Could you please tell me, what's a hashref?
LCA blog - stuff.co.nz
Here's a copy of my 7 days of fame on stuff.co.nz
Linux conference blog
Friday, 19 January 2007
This week Sydney is hosting the largest free and open source software
conference in the Southern Hemisphere. Linux.conf.au (LCA07) is an
influential gathering of over 800 interested users and software
developers.
- brenda wallace
- design decisions
- dozen attendees
- evening dinner
- gaggle
- helson
- interested users
- linus torvalds
- linux.conf.au
- linux conference
- mark shuttleworth
- open source communities
- open source software
- open source software conference
- persistent connections
- postgresql database
- robot dogs
- software developers
- solar vehicles
- southern hemisphere
Wellington Perl Mongers
Perl Mongers (http://www.pm.org/) is a "Loose Association of Perl User
Groups". The Wellington chapter (http://wellington.pm.org/) meets on the second Tuesday of each month (ie: today) at 6:00pm for:
- interesting talks
- the opportunity to ridicule other people's code
- networking with other Perl users
- and of course beer
The venue, the web hosting and the beer are kindly provided by Catalyst
Tonight's three speakers are





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