Join me blogging for Ada Lovelace Day (by sarah)
Tuesday the 24th of March is Ada Lovelace Day - this is a day of blogging about women in Technology, ones who have inspired you or that you admire.
Ada Lovelace is known as the first computer programmer in history though she didn't actually have a computer to run them on. She made them all from the description of Babbage's machine which he never finished.
She also saw far more potential in the machine than even he did and was well ahead of her time. Now I am posting this becuase a) we are obviously going to be doing write ups on this for this blog, my astronomy blog and web-empires blog - I'm not sure I can find relevent technology craft/art and cooking cross overs in time for the Salaric blogs but I will try. b) I'm hoping that alot of you lovely people will take up this challenge - from a personal point of veiw it would be nice to see the science side of technology and not just computing to be recognised - so geologists, chemists and astrophysists pull your fingers out, oh and anyone else who wants to off course! c) this will raise the profile of women in technology so that hopefully young women choosing careers paths and those debating weather to rejoin after a the whole 'career break'/having baby/looking after sick people can see that they are not alone and that both currently and in the past there female role models without whom medical advancements and the like may never have been made. (Or at least taken twice as long as there is an idea that you just need a saturation point for idea nucleation sort of thing).
I contacted the organiser and asked what they ment by technology and they said it is perpusfully broad and would include science etc... 🙂
There is a pledge page where you can add yourself to the list of people who will blog. You can follow it on twitter and it has a face book presance. There is also a mailing list and to find tweets about it on twitter its designation is #ALD09.
I am probably far to excited about this and I think you will all be suprised by the one we have on here 🙂
So you lot lets get writing 🙂
Wed 18th Mar 2009 11:33 am 
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By Ada Lovelace. Info, Thu 19th Mar 2009 @ 10:18 am
Good idea, nice to see Ada getting the respect she deserves!
By sarah, Wed 25th Mar 2009 @ 1:38 pm
yeah thats what I thought.