Sorry for not posting for ages. You know how it is: new job, international relocation, Martian death plague. If you’re stalking me, you can track my work blog to see what I’m spending my days on.
Meanwhile, it looks like I’ll be doing a couple of Geek Etiquette related sessions at some upcoming conferences.

First [...]

I’m at BarCampBlock so there’s going to be a bit of a change in format here while I liveblog Michael Schwern’s talk, “Geek to Geek: how we fail, how to fix it.”
What’s this talk about?

We’re good at computer science and bad at people

We have certain patterns of failure and certain ways to fix those

Schwern is [...]

On the weekend I had lunch with a group of not-particularly-geeks. I mean, they might be geeks in their own fields, but they’re not the computery open-sourcey Perly type that I usually talk about geeky stuff with. So over our pho (I had the satay beef egg noodle soup, which was pretty tasty) [...]