Tag Archives: women

Della – Dell netbooks for women?

I recently opted to replace my first generation Asus EEE 701. It’s very convenient and mostly functional, but I decided I wasn’t finding it the best thing in the world for really Getting Stuff Done™ outside of sending a few emails.
I chose to get one of the new Samsung NC20s. I highly recommend [...]

Women of the web

Yet again the subject of women in our industry has reared its head and yet again I find myself basically fuming. Why exactly do we keep rehashing this discussion? Can’t we just get over it, already?
Okay, first things first – I realise there’s a wider discussion about women in any industry, and specifically [...]

Web Design Survey 2007 – Maybe not so hard-done by?

I haven’t even started looking through this properly yet, but Patrick just brought to my attention the results of the A List Apart Web Design Survey 2007 and it’s a great read so far.
Being the unwilling complainer and non-supporter of discrimination (either the negative or the positive types), I’m always especially interested in those bits [...]

Women and geek events

“I would feel like I had something to prove, and that I’d have to know something really well and expect a grilling on it” was the response I got from Fiona, my housemate and fellow “girl geek” who works in software compliancy for Betfair, when I asked her “Why don’t you go to events like [...]