meme: Ada Lovelace Day

Today (well, by the time I hit post) is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women in technology. Please join in!

I don't think we have to look any further than the huge, complex network of fandom and the Organization for Transformative Works to see that women have a huge impact on technology. But this posting is also about my personal history, and how I walked the road from English Major to a fifteen year (eep) career as a programmer and software release engineer.
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