This story on Fox News caught my eye. There are so many things in this story that make me want to shout “Hey! You bet this is still a problem in 2013!” When one reporter mentions the fact that girls…
Joss Whedon: Strong Female Characters
Writer Joss Whedon is often asked about the strong female characters in his work. His answer is within a video that’s gone viral. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/360882
Girls in Computer Science
Here’s an interesting article about why the number of girls studying computer science is low.
Where are the women?
This blog is about the search for significant representation of women in key roles in technology companies. The idea of creating a blog about this is recent, but the idea of looking for women who are playing key tech roles…
Blogging at Work
Although I love WordPress for blogging, I finally managed to create a blog at work that I like using Blogger. Having Google Apps in Education (GAFE) as our primary tool for email and general productivity, it made more sense to…
Leaving Dalian for Home
Our last stop in China was in the northern port city of Dalian, where my cousin Rob, his wife Amalia, and their two children live. I spent my last four nights there before heading home, and Kelsey remained there for…
Family in Taiyuan
My brother-in-law Jon and his wife Lan left New Hampshire with their 3 year old son, Jonah, and arrived in China a few days after we did. They went directly to Taiyuan to visit her parents. We decided at the…
Beijing and a trek to the Great Wall
We took the bullet train from Tianjin to Beijing. Then we had to figure out how to get from the train station and into a taxi that would take us in a reasonable amount of time to our hotel. We…
Tianjin
I must have been tired and distracted because I didn’t get many photos of our time in Tianjin. I suppose that’s understandable because we only spent about 24 hours there before moving on to Beijing on the bullet train! Here…
Zhuhai
We stayed at Bob and Jene’s home in Zhuhai for 4 nights. It was the perfect place to begin familiarizing ourselves with a Chinese neighborhood, with its sights, sounds, and smells. One evening, I went with Jene to the English…