Posts by J Gray

IT industry needs more women

Underachievers

Most high quality organizations I've been associated with have less than 5% male jerks. Seems like only the incompetent (technically or socially) are unhappy about having a more "gender balanced" workplace.

That being said, the bigger problem is getting more competent people in general. I can't stand anyone who got their job without merit (because they are a particular race, gender or relation of the manager). With men's dropping achievement rate (ie. low and dropping college graduation rates), tech needs to look back to its roots to find good programmers.

Treehuggers lose legal fight to solar-powered neighbour

Grew trees over solar panels

"Trees already in place when solar panels are set up don't have to be cut down, but new growth causing shading is unlawful once the panels are in place. It seems that two of Treanor and Bissett's redwoods grew in an illegal fashion and had to be chopped down."

So these hippies grew 2 redwoods in their backyard over their neighbors solar panels? I think my brain just died a little.

Mother launches attack on epilepsy inducing video games

Giant warnings

Ok, one of two things happened:

1. She didn't know the kid has epilepsy and they found out about it in a relatively safe environment.

2. She knew the kid had epilepsy and bought him a game player and a game that both have giant epilepsy warnings in the manuals, on the box and when you turn on the game players.

Either way, the kid should not play video games now and she should be really hopeful that it is just video games that trigger his seizures. There are much harder to deal with forms of epilepsy out there and of course the kids who are deathly allergic to almost all food (it is hard to find found without any peanuts, wheat, dairy, or egg products in them).