Programmer, Writer, Mom
Posted in Tech, Writing/Reading on Oct 21st, 2009
I finished John Grisham‘s “The Associate.” My first reaction is that he is one hell of a writer. If he wasn’t, I would not have finished the book. My second reaction is he shouldn’t hinge the success of his plot on technology. The story follows a first-year Yale Law grad through the chore of working [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Tech on Sep 10th, 2009
I use a BlackBerry Curve and I love having a smart phone: take notes, all my contacts, calendar, and email, twitter, facebook, google reader, google news, browser. Most of my friends that have smart phones, have IPhones. The rest of my friends have mobile phones that just phone or text. I also use Firefox (plug-ins [...]