Digital Strawberry Girl

A girl-geek's brain dump (Chris Hart's blog)
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June 2005 Entries

Women - not just chained to the sink, but part of the utility room?

I really honestly couldn't believe this when I saw it (many thanks to Jim Minatel for bringing this to my attention!) - what the hell was Ecclestone thinking?! Fox Sports is reporting that F1 chief doofus had this to say about the IRL's Danica Patrick: "You know, I've got one of these wonderful ideas that women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances." [Via Jim Minatel's Wrox Book Editor Blog] The sooner they launch a new championship - some sort of spin off, free from the rules and decisions made by incompetant and self-important fools - the better....

posted @ Tuesday, June 21, 2005 1:36 PM | Feedback (2)

Connected Future

Ever had that strange experience of ordering pizza over the phone and the person on the other end knows where you live? I guess it's not that strange when you think about it, but it spooked me the first time I had that happen to me. Anyway, if you find that mildly spooky, you'll enjoy this link. You will need headphones / speakers.

posted @ Tuesday, June 14, 2005 3:34 PM | Feedback (1)

Milk allergy

As many of my readers will know, I've got this annoying allergy to milk protein (diagnosed by a proper allergy clinic by skin-prick test things), which means I have to avoid milk, cheese, butter, cream and yoghurt in general, along with other milk-based products. Given that milk appears all over the place (full-fat Hellmans Mayonnaise is milk-free, their low-fat version has cream in it, but the extra low-fat is again free from milk!) I have to spend time looking at product labels, and checking out menus, and asking for additional information in restaurants. I have to remember to inform almost anyone...

posted @ Tuesday, June 07, 2005 1:50 PM | Feedback (8)

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