Travel on Stormy Peters

Use your vacation to do good in exotic locations

Sat, 22 Feb 2014 12:54:07 -0700

Kids on Computers is planning a trip to the Huajuapan de Leon, Mexico area in June. If you can, please join us! If you can’t, please consider donating to help the labs we’ll be working on.

Most of us will be going down for a week or so. There are travel stipends available for those willing to spend a month helping in the area.

**What could I possibly do to help? **I ask myself this every time I go. Especially since I usually drag my kids along. Here are the things you can help with.

Top 8 things to do in New Orleans

Mon, 25 Nov 2013 11:58:25 -0700

With an unprecedented number of friends visiting New Orleans in the next couple of months, I put together my top list of things to do.

Spend evenings on Frenchmen Street rather than Bourbon Street.
Walk down Royal and check out the antiques.
Have the double chocolate bread pudding at Red Fish. (We usually split an appetizer and the bread pudding.)
Have goat cheese crepes at Muriel’s at the bar.
Take the cocktail tour. There’s lots of fun historical stories involved.
Talk to the locals, especially on buses.
Have stuffed chicken wings at Nola’s.
Take the street car out to the Garden District and walk around.

And a bonus one:

How does Malaysia encourage so many women in software?

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:28:37 -0700

In 2003 I gave a talk in Malaysia. What I noticed immediately is that my audience was well over half women. This was really noticeable because they were all wearing brightly colored hijabs. Usually I scan the room and count how many women I can find - usually on my fingers even in a room of hundreds. Yet here were hundreds of women attending a talk about the economics of open source software!