Can’t seem to reproduce this problem on my end. I’ve given our software a virtual kick in the pants just to be sure. Hit the contact link at the bottom of the page if you experience this again.

Emcye,
First of all, thank you.

Second, if you’re going to quote a stripper, I’m going to quote a stooge, Curly I believe: "I resemble that remark!" The unfortunate truth about the technology field is that men vastly outnumber women. There were an order of magnitude more men than women in my graduating class. The truly sad part is that we had a faculty and Dean dedicated to getting more women involved in tech and one of the highest female enrollments in Computer Science in the country. Every technology department I’ve worked in has been dominated by men. This is not to say that there aren’t women who can do my job, just that by choice, chance, socialization, genetics or for whatever reason, there are simply fewer of them.

If you’re up for some extended and inspiring reading on women in technology check out the results of this year’s Ada Lovelace Day.

Cheers,
Tom

Hi everyone. We’ve been flat out removing comments that aren’t in keeping with our Terms of Serivce (and by extension the spirit of the site). You’ll occasionally see a reply to a non-existant comment or may get a link to nowhere in an e-mail alert. Not much to be done about the first, but you’ll now get a message and be dropped to the homepage in case of the second.

And Diana is correct, if you hit the ‘contact us’ link at the bottom of the page and choose ‘Technology’ in the category dropdown I’ll get the message. There is only one of me though, so I’d appreciate if you could keep messages to me along the lines of "Something is horribly broken on the site…" rather than "I’m not sure how to…". For general tech support, our crew that reads the ‘general’ box should be able to help you, and if not they’ll pass along the message to me.

 Many thanks for the birthday wishes!

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