It’s well known and oft-times mentioned around the time a large technical convention is looming, there are not enough women in programming. I know, I’m a techie female and I know maybe half-a-dozen women in my chosen technology. As a mom of five daughters (and one son) I have just realized I’m contributing to [...]
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Will women programmers be extinct?
Posted in Family, Open Source, Plone on June 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Our attraction to distraction
Posted in Family, TechToys on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m no sociologist, just the average entrepreneurial single mom with a penchant for all things technical (even my men, I <3 g33ks) but it seems to me we've become a society that loves distraction. The more "mobile" and "digitally" centered we become the shorter our attention span.
It was bad enough when the microwave became [...]
