Programmer, Writer, Mom
Posted in Tech on Sep 21st, 2009
I’m technically literate so I take a lot of the process and presentation of technology for granted. My Mom is not technically inclined. I sat in a presentation this week where the presenter didn’t know how to move from one Powerpoint slide to the next and asked the audience to keep up based on handouts. [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Sep 20th, 2009
Eileen Cook takes an interesting twist on the humorous lead female character in her novel “Unpredictable”. The protagonist, Sophie Kintock, is trying to get her ex-boyfriend back by posing as a psychic, giving a doomed reading to the current girlfriend. She also moves his car to a different parking spot and steals one sock out [...]
Posted in Tech, Writing/Reading on Sep 17th, 2009
Last night I had dinner with two other ex-Microsoft employees who are career technical writers and editors. We all wanted to return to Microsoft and were finding the road now led to India. The rumor seems to be that Microsoft is farming out more and more documentation work to India. As a prospective employee, that [...]