Yesterday was my last day at IBM after 13.5 years. While it’s hard to believe I have spent my entire professional career in one company, the different roles and opportunities that have been afforded me make it seem like I’ve worked in at least 5 different places. Not to mention, I grew up while at […]
I have a cough. It’s the result of my sinus infection and asthma – together they make me all coughy. Which has made me popular at work. Several times I’ve heard people walk by and say “stay away from that cube”. A few teammates have kindly told me to get well soon (I really don’t […]
i went to talk to someone about a problem i’m working on at work. i wanted to show her something so i switched over to my firefox window. the front tab has PORN opened. pictures. girls. mouths. men’s genitals. disgusting. i have NO IDEA how it got there (i can’t wait to see what Jeff […]
Got a super nice note from the organizer of yesterday’s event. Hi Jen, Thank you so much for your “my life” talk today. You were fantastic! I flipped through about half of the stack of evaluation surveys. For the question about “What things did you like most about the day”, I noticed three girls that […]
Today I am going to U of T campus to talk to the group of young women who are participating in the Gr8 Designs for Gr8 Girls workshop. Super exciting to tell them all about being a software developer (*not* programmer) and to help break down the gender stereotypes that exist around my profession. Should […]
Today I presented a workshop at ECOO 2009. You can see the details of the outreach we do on the Teaching With Scratch website. Please pass along to any teachers that you know who might be interested!
The past few years I’ve enjoyed developing and delivering workshops and presentations at IBM’s Centre For Advanced Studies conference. This is the first year that I’m not going to be getting the presenter’s bag. I wonder what the gift is – last year it was an electronic sudoku game 🙂 In any case, it should […]
That’s right, Toronto is dark. There’s a power outage that’s been affecting something like 20,000 homes since 10:00 PM last night. And it happens to be the coldest night/day of the year with temperatures that are close to -20. Lucky me, I’m in the affected area. On the plus side, I had a terrific night’s […]
this morning I came in to work to find a slew of emails in my inbox that are all variations on the “not feeling well, working from home.” Last week there was a lot of coughing, but everyone felt well enough to work from here – which means that my office is probably full of […]
Yesterday I went to Baron’s cube and started dancing. Baron was like “did you have coffee?” Busted. 10 minutes before I had a small cup of coffee from Timmy’s. But then I got a great amount of work done. This morning I decided to have another cup. Here’s what happened: 8:40: Jenn gets cup of […]