Gender Roles

My wife recently had an interesting post on her blog that I found myself rereading, and I feel the need to address the topic from a male perspective.  To sum up, the issue at hand was women in business and the use or their “femininity” to get their feet in the door.  My wife, being a modern, down-to-earth feminist, found this concept insulting and degrading (as did numerous commenters to her post) since talent and merit should stand independent of gender.  And I agree with her.  But working in the world (and happening to be a guy), I felt like throwing in my two cents on the topic. Read more “Gender Roles”

Thoughts on Poetic and Tech

In exploring the blogisphere, I recently stumbled upon an interesting member by the name of Liz Henry.  I’d like to say that I discovered her work by casual means, but in truth I was following a lead on an interesting contest that HP is sponsoring.  But in doing so, I found someone I will likely continue reading as well as a 10-year-old speech about programming languages that was surprisingly undated (see the related post here). Read more “Thoughts on Poetic and Tech”