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My 18th birthday is tomorrow! One last day of being a minor..
In other good news, the US government is actually considering a bill (you have to put in your zipcode to view the article) that might actually be useful! They want to spend $50 million to get more girls interested in computers and technology, which of course means MORE GIRL GEEKS! Of course as someone pointed out, the US government spends billions of dollars each year fighting drug use, and look how successful that was. But at least this is a start, as girls are vastly underrepresented in the computing and other technological and math fields.
My local linux user group, SLUG (Suncoast Linux User Group), participated in the Computer and Technology Show (CTS) this past week in Clearwater. One of the people there wrote an article about the experience there, and some pictures are here. I unfortunatly could not go myself, but reading through the emails on the mailing list it sounded like fun, and they were one of the most popular booths there. Apparently a lot of the show-goers were amazed that the software they had out was free, not only in cost but in intellectual freedom; the freedom to do whatever they wanted with that software, be it copy it, sell it, modify it, or burn it. Gotta love free software.
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