I get 200-300 email messages a day in my three accounts, about two-thirds of them in my STScI (work) account. On a recent day, the Institute junk mail filters caught just 21 messages, one of which was a false-positive. 39 other obvious spam, including several with a charming oversize image of a flayed penis, were [...]
Archive for June 2007
Is Junk E-mail Impeding Postal Mail?
June 17, 2007Tim Wise followup: Implicit Preference?
June 15, 2007Harvard University has a series of tests of implicit assumptions people make, under the aegis of Project Implicit. I took a couple of the demo tests, the African American – European American IAT and the Gender – Science IAT. According to the tests, I have a slight automatic preference for black people over white people, [...]
Looking for Help on FOS
June 14, 2007We are looking for help for the Flight Operations Subsystem team. The position is posted internally now, but will be external any time. The ideal person would have experience with control center systems, ideally building one, and be experienced in working with developer, astronomer and system engineering communities here and at Goddard. This is work [...]
Sixteen more digits
June 1, 2007Heh. The AACS revoked the previous “master key” but it didn’t take long for the new key to show up in blog posts: It looks like somebody is working on the appropriate website, but in the meantime you’ll have to settle for a description of the story. tc>
Women like the work, but not the workplace.
June 1, 2007A while back I expressed surprise about girls being more effective than boys at a particular programming task. The more I learn, the less I’m surprised. The problem, it seems, is not the conventional wisdom that girls don’t like math and science, and they just need to be encouraged to be interested in those things. [...]
