FollowBy most measures, I should have technical entitlement in spades. I’m the granddaughter of a software engineer and the daughter of a entrepreneur. I could use a computer just about as soon as I could sit up. When I was 11, I made my first website and within a year I was selling code. I took six semesters of computer science in high school, and I had two internships behind me when I started my …
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Microsoft, the creepy old man? Hardly.
Microsoft is basically a creepy old man, and the interns are all brainwashed and deluded. Or so one might think after reading an article that Reuters published earlier this week. The headline reads, “Aging Microsoft Lures Young Tech Idealists,” and that says it all. (It certainly evokes an image of a creepy, predatory old man.) While Microsoft is considered “irrelevant, bureaucratic and dull,” the interns bubble with unbridled enthusiasm and students have ranked it #2 …
Iron Blogger – Seattle
On a whim, Drew and I decided to start an Iron Blogger group in Seattle. You’re invited. What does that mean? Well, the premise is pretty simple. Everyone in the group commits themselves to writing a post each week. If you don’t write your post, you owe $5 into the pot. When the pot fills up, everyone goes out and has a beer–or the non-alcoholic drink of their choice. Personally I like lemonade. And then …