Archive of Women in tech

Me, bouncing around onstage at an O’Reilly Conference

on July 28th, 2009 in Avenging, Film, Tech, Women in tech by | 2 Comments

Last week I spoke at OSCON Ignite, the evening entertainment bit of the O’Reilly Open Source Conference and the Google Awards. Talks took the traditional Ignite format of five minutes, 20 slides. Slides auto-advance after 15 seconds, ready or not. Speakers were encouraged to address their personal brand of geekery….

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A nerdygirl review of the Game Developers Conference

on February 5th, 2009 in ALA, Avenging, Cornell, Favorite Posts, Feminism, Interface design, Library tourism, San Francisco, Tech, User Interface Design, Video games, Women in tech by | 4 Comments

Greetings from an ethnic librarian working in the games industry! I’m posting this review of my experience last year at GDC (the Game Developers Conference) held every year here in San Francisco. It was originally part of a letter to my team here at Linden Lab, but I thought you…

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More Second Life employee Rap Battles

on May 21st, 2008 in Favorite Posts, Linden Lab, Music, Nerdcore Rap, Second Life, Tech, Women in tech by | 2 Comments

Oh yes. The IRC Rap Battles continue at Linden Lab, creators of Second Life. Bridie Linden is in town, and we decided to bitchslap some suckah MCs… Bridie Linden: I got so much chips I swear they call me Hewlett Packard I got so much chips you can have a…

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Three things I learned from migrating a WordPress site over to GoDaddy

on May 9th, 2007 in Feminism, Research Obsession, Tech, Women in tech by | 3 Comments

Erica! Where ya been? Glad you asked. I’ve been off avenging. Specifically, I’ve been avenging the less-than-impressive webhosting capacity of my former ISP-who-shall-remain-nameless. I switched to GoDaddy recently, and spent a good amount of time cleaning everything up, updating, and migrating my databases. I also spent a good amount of…

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I will shoot you with my Barbie Gun

on February 24th, 2006 in Avenging, Favorite Posts, Feminism, Life, Tech, Video games, Women in tech by | 13 Comments

Ladies and Gentlemen: I’m coming out. As a gamer. I game. I play video games. I enjoy shooting digital things. I have the ability to navigate three-dimensional space. There, I said it. I don’t know what I was afraid of. I’m not going to be stereotyped. As far as I…

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