Sarah Doherty

Always thinking. Always dreaming.

  1. Snow Leopard Install Day

    For the love of all things geeky.

    Ryan’s intense excitement.

    Aidan found installation quite exhausting.

  2. Ellipse is Here!



  3. Swordfish Shish Kabobs with Organic Veggies (and J. Lohr wine)

    Dinner – Yum!

  4. My Personal Identity on the Web

    Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman
    http://personas.media.mit.edu/

    Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.  It allows you to see how the machine is working, revealing the computer’s uncanny insights and inadvertent errors such as the characterizations caused by the inability to separate data from multiple owners of the same name.  It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world where digital histories are as important – if not more important – than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant – for now.  Fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, and this kind of data is indispensable but far from infallible.

    (I’m at least very proud that I have pretty much completely re-branded myself with my new married name so not much still exists online with my old maiden name.  It hasn’t been deleted, just renamed to “doherty”.

    This installation brings up a couple of really good points.  I’m sure we all have been shocked that someone shares the same name as us and that it is impossible to correctly search the internet for our contributions and not someone else’s.  It will be interesting to see how this problem is solved.

  5. Maker Faire Africa and the Power of Community

    Last weekend Maker Faire Africa took place in Accra, Ghana. You might be thinking, so what, another Maker activity, but you’d be wrong. Maker Faire Africa is the first of its kind and was a great celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention. We thought this event was a great forum to create exposure for Mozilla and Firefox and to recruit new contributors in Western Africa.

    Although I did not attend, Mozilla was extremely well represented. This was largely due to Kwamena Appiah-Kubi, an awesome Mozilla Campus Rep from Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology (KNUST). Without his organization and great ideas we would not have had such a successful presence.

    On August 15th, Henry Addo (suuch.com), Miquel (maneno.org) and Kwamena led a Mozilla workshop on localization that was packed to the rafters. They discussed issues hindering localization efforts in Africa and what policies are needed to be implemented to promote localization.

    Another discussion was led by Erik Hersman (whiteafrican.com) about his views on the lack of communication and cohesion in the Ghanian programming community.

    Mozilla also had a booth where fellow Makers could grab some Mozilla swag and ask questions.

    As a new “Mozillan” I am blown away by our amazing community and their willingness to help spread Firefox and open source. Seeing Kwamena and his organizers pull together and help assemble our presence at Maker Faire Africa, grow the Firefox community and Mozilla project makes me feel very fortunate to be part of this thriving community.

    Maker Faire Africa 2010 in Kenya is in the works and I’m looking forward to seeing how Mozilla can participate there too!

  6. Growling + Hurley = Fun

    This video truly captures the essence of Aidan.

  7. Aidan Drives Ryan’s Computer

  8. Listen to Imogen Heap’s New Album Ellipse

    Imogen Heap’s new album!  Some days just end on a good note!

  9. Our Plant Has a Name!

  10. Aidan on the Loose

    My new favorite photo. Ryan loves to play ball with Aidan and will occasionally hold him in place for a few seconds so the ball can roll to the other side of the room. This is Aidan’s expression everytime.

  11. Model Shot



  12. Firefox 3.5 Community Parties Roundup

    Also cross-posted on the Mozilla blog.

    Since we announced Firefox 3.5 on June 30th, community members all over the world have been planning amazing parties (150+ to date) to celebrate and share their passion about their favorite browser.

    One of the questions that I am frequently asked is, “Why are parties necessary?”  I feel that it’s important to take take time to have fun and reflect on everything the Mozilla community has accomplished.  The launch of a new version of Firefox is the perfect excuse to meet up and spread the word.

    I’ve always been under the impression that “pictures are worth 1000 words” so I went out to collect as many pictures from our community parties as I could.

    I’ve assembled a PDF which shows all of the parties that were submitted and links to many of the photo galleries.  You can view the presentation here:

    Or download a copy here.

  13. Tiramisu Addict on the Loose



  14. Bing Goes the Internet

    This has to be my new favorite video.

  15. Haircut Time!



  16. Dinner with the Family