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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> __/ [ High Plains Thumper ] on Tuesday 28 November 2006 12:30 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> An interview with Linux Australia's cover girl
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| It can be tough being a woman in an industry where almost
>>>| four in five people are men. But that's just another
>>>| challenge that Pia Waugh enjoys, alongside juggling her
>>>| own consultancy, a research position at Macquarie
>>>| University, running Linux Australia and Software Freedom
>>>| International, and being otherwise heavily involved in
>>>| the industry.
>>>|
>>>| ...I ended up falling back into IT because it's just a
>>>| natural fit for me and I love technical work, and then I
>>>| got into Linux and that propelled me more into IT.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1585810409;fp;2
>>> ;fpid;4
>>
>> For those who wonder what Pia Waugh looks like, there is a
>> picture in this fairly recent link:
>>
>> http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/may-the-source-be-with-y
>> ou/2006/05/08/1146940440959.html
>>
>> or http://tinyurl.com/yllbqo
>>
>> | May the source be with you
>> | May 9, 2006
>> |
>> | Pia Waugh is not afraid to take control, she is passionate
>> | about technology and her work, writes Cynthia Karena.
>> |
>> | PIA Waugh finds kung fu fight tactics a handy tool in the
>> | business world.
>> |
>> | "Kung-fu prepares you for thinking strategically rather
>> | than reacting. I've learned to be the master of the first
>> | stroke and to take control of any situation," says Ms
>> | Waugh, who six months ago founded an open source
>> | consultancy business, Waugh Partners.
>
> The caption on the photo says "Pia Waugh has started an open source
> consultancy". If her (and her husband's, IIRC) consultancy has got some
> About page, then I certainly hope she's chosen a different picture. I know
> that Free Open Source software can slash the prices, but that's just too
> much.
>
> I once knew a girl names Pia and she was Danish (we had a couple of drinks).
> This one is from Ausralia, so I wonder if she's foreign.
>
For those of us old enough, a well-known pin-up girl in the 1970s was
Pia Zadora, so it could be that someone named their daughter after her.
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| Mark Kent -- mark at ellandroad dot demon dot co dot uk |
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
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