Yes, I’ve managed to survive grant-writing season, hurrah! (Now we just wait for 8 months to see if funding will be forthcoming.) I should be getting back to cooking soon.
In the meantime, here is a diversion for you: some of my favourite posts from Ada Lovelace Day (yesterday, 24th of March).
Jean Bartik, ENIAC programmer
Valerie Aurora, Linux kernal programmer
Hedy Lamarr(!), co-inventor of spread spectrum frequency hopping
Mary Somerville and Agnes Clarke, interpreters and communicators of science
Enid Mumford, sociotechnologist
Addison Berry, Drupal developer and mobilizer
Jane McGonigal, game designer and futurist
Karen Spärk Jones, computational linguist
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) wrote the first computer programs, for Charles Babbage’s analytical engine. And Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate women in technology. You can track down loads of other ALD posts via Technorati or the Ada Lovelace Day Collection – many of them are worth a read.