Archive: Technology
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Mar 08, 2010
No CommentsBing Support Sports Relief


Have you been onto Bing recently? If you have then you may have noticed in the bottom right hand corner of the site there’s a call to action for their users, to sign up and support Sports Relief through the use of Bing...
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Feb 26, 2010
No CommentsAda Lovelace Day 2010 Event

Following on from the post about writing your Ada Lovelace Pledge, come and join us on Ada Lovelace Day, 24 March 2010, to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science! During the evening we will hear from Maggie Philbin, the science and technology journalist that many of us...
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Feb 26, 2010
No CommentsAda Lovelace Inspirations & Pledge



If you remember, last year brought the very first Ada Lovelace Day, Founded by Suw Charman-Anderson where loads and loads of bloggers, male and female wrote about their geeky, science, technology and mathematical inspirations. Well it’s coming...
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Feb 10, 2010
No CommentsEducation: Legally Blonde The Musical



A number of weeks back I was invited along to Legally Blonde the Musical, it was the Gala evening and all the stars were out in support of the event. I was fortunate enough to be...
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Jan 31, 2010
No CommentsWhat do Skiing, Snowboarding & C Have in Common?



A short while ago I came across a fantastic little tweet courtesy of my lovely followers! It was all about a new board game which I’m hoping to get my hands on to review and see how...
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Dec 31, 2009
No CommentsWomen & Technology 1999 – 2009



Since everyone has been doing their decade blog posts I thought it might be a good idea to look back through the last 10 years of women in technology and see how the industry has changed during...
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Nov 18, 2009
No CommentsUseful Filezilla Tip – Tabs!
The other day when I was using Filezilla it asked me to do an update, as it does every now and again, to look at it however I didn’t really see any major upgrades…. That was at least until earlier today when @deanperry pointed out the coolest new feature in Filezilla which will change the...
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Nov 16, 2009
No CommentsReview: Gender & Information Technology

Some time ago I got sent Mary Kirk’s book Gender and Information Technology. It’s taken me a while to get round to writing about it as it’s quite a thick book and is not exactly what I’d call a light read. The book covers all aspects of women and...
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Nov 11, 2009
No CommentsThe Manga Guide to Calculus (& Competition!)



On Twitter I have been teasing some of my followers telling them this post was coming well here it is! Not so long ago we managed to get our hands onto the Manga Guide to Physics,...
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Nov 09, 2009
No CommentsCompetition: Are you the next Bill Gates?
XMA have just launched a shiny new fun competition aimed at students in the UK with an interest and passion for Technology. Some would say they are geeky, others nerdy and those of us in the know, just think of them as technical, intelligent and an inspiration. So do you know someone like this,...