Amore Ampache
19 Aug 2010 8:47pm GMT I have never really got the mp3 craze – there are so many ways in which they just don’t seem that immediate and easy. I can’t play mp3s in my car, for example, unless I change my car / get a new stereo / get an FM transmitter, and also spend time loading whatever mp3s [...]
Who says breasts can’t be functional *and* fun?
1 Jul 2010 9:48am GMT Would you rather: A) be sexy B) breastfeed There’s a lot of debate on this topic at the moment, but every article I’ve seen seems to miss one very important point: what about option C) both? There are various articles deconstructing the notion that being sexy is more important than breastfeeding, and what that may [...]
Writing, technically
27 May 2010 5:29pm GMT I appear to have accidentally become a sort of a professional writer. I do lots of other stuff besides, but a large chunk of my job now involves writing User Guides, Release Notes and so on. Apparently, this makes me a technical author. Thinking about what I’ve done in the past, this really shouldn’t surprise [...]
Maternity leave == professional development?
29 Mar 2010 7:53pm GMT It’s generally accepted that maternity leave is a bad thing for careers – there’s up to a year’s gap in your work history, you’ll have forgotten lots of stuff and failed to keep up with changes. Add in that you’ll have lost touch with all your important contacts, and at the end of it you’ve [...]
Ada Lovelace Day: Rosalind Franklin
24 Mar 2010 9:56pm GMT Most teenage girls idolise pop stars, or actresses. They want to be princesses or models. I was not most teenage girls. I dreamed about growing up to be a scientist, like the ones in the John Wyndham books. Then one day a friend told me about Rosalind Franklin, and I was in awe. At the [...]