Stacey on Software: Personal

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  • Hello again!

    Again, I'm looking at starting a blog. This is number 3 for me over the past 5 years or so. Typically I end up losing focus, forgetting to…

  • End User Experience - Why, Microsoft, why?

    I recently purchased a new laptop for one of my daughters, it came with Vista. This is the first Vista based computer in the house. Let me…

  • Doctors are people too

    In following up my "novel" I posted the other day, I found a neat article from Dalhousie magazine published last year that talks about my…

  • My Ongoing Battle with Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (PMP)

    Introduction So, I haven't told a lot of people about this. Truly, it has taken me a year to learn what I know now, and my journey isn't…

  • Changes

    I’m writing today with some important personal news. Over the past several years, I have made a number of very positive changes in my life…

  • [DRAFT] Update to My Ongoing Battle with Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (PMP)

    In 2009, I wrote about my experience with PMP. Since then, I get posts every month or two from others who are going through their own…

  • Retrospective on 2015

    The past year has been exhausting. I've never felt so much like a hamster on a wheel. This year will mark 8 years into my transition,…

  • 2016 Big Steps Forward

    Lots of folks have been complaining lately about 2016. Certainly, as one friend of mine pointed out, as movies and celebrities have become…

  • In Memory of Nancy Diamond

    When I was growing up, I didn't have a lot of friends. I had a small circle of friends in high school, and through this small circle of…

  • [DRAFT] Holding Hands

    Oh the tears. When holding hands with my love went from a simple thing we thought nothing of, to an act of defiance, playing hide and seek…

  • Coaching for “likability”

    Lately, I’ve been exposed to some commercial coaching practices that push the idea of “likability”, they seem to imply that if you develop…

  • Oppression in Machine Learning

    Popular media loves to talk about "artificial intelligence" these days. It is a hot topic, one riddled with misunderstanding. Artificial…

  • Who are you?

    What’s your job title? What does it say about you? What doesn’t it say about you? We are human beings, doing what we can with the tools we…

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  • Retro Computing and Stewardship

    stew·ard·ship /ˈsto͞oərdˌSHip/ The job of supervising or taking care of something, such as an organization or property. "responsible…