Feminist stuff

I mentioned this to a few people at the weekend, so here are the links:

Article by Peggy McIntosh discussing invisible white privilege (i.e. invisible to white people - the advantages you gain but don't notice)
An imitation of that article discussing invisible male privilege.

And something else I came across recently: an article on women in computer science which covers quite a lot of other issues of societal stereotyping/sexism. Note that it dates from 1991, so the examples are obviously a little old, and I think things *have* moved on - but the underlying argument is still interesting, and I certainly don't think that everything mentioned has been overcome, sadly.

Feminist stuff

I mentioned this to a few people at the weekend, so here are the links:

Article by Peggy McIntosh discussing invisible white privilege (i.e. invisible to white people - the advantages you gain but don't notice)
An imitation of that article discussing invisible male privilege.

And something else I came across recently: an article on women in computer science which covers quite a lot of other issues of societal stereotyping/sexism. Note that it dates from 1991, so the examples are obviously a little old, and I think things *have* moved on - but the underlying argument is still interesting, and I certainly don't think that everything mentioned has been overcome, sadly.

Treo 600 query

I was trying to locate a free alarm clock (countdown timer is what I'm actually after) for my Treo. Which I successfully did; but then discovered that it will seemingly only play alarms if the system tones are switched on. Having the system tones switched on means a little sound every single time you choose an application or whatever, & makes me want to kill things; so that's a non-starter. The alarm function on the DateBook works even with system tones switched off, I might add.

So: any of the Treo owners out there suggest a way around this?

Treo 600 query

I was trying to locate a free alarm clock (countdown timer is what I'm actually after) for my Treo. Which I successfully did; but then discovered that it will seemingly only play alarms if the system tones are switched on. Having the system tones switched on means a little sound every single time you choose an application or whatever, & makes me want to kill things; so that's a non-starter. The alarm function on the DateBook works even with system tones switched off, I might add.

So: any of the Treo owners out there suggest a way around this?