Posts by ArthurBent

Why women won't apply for IT jobs

womens' hour

So someone earlier mentioned listening to the female I.T person on women's hour (UK radio programme for women..) talking about this very story. Her main point seemed to be 'we need more women in I.T, and don't worry, there's loads of non-programming jobs!'.

Now, while that's true, it seemed to be completely the wrong message. Surely it should be, 'there are programming jobs, and if you learn how to program, you could do them'?

I think if I was female, and of a delicate constitution (as this report seems to imply), I'd be pretty put-off by a proponent of women in I.T. saying essentially, 'programmings obviously too difficult for you, but you could always do something easier instead'.

(btw, I don't think programming is harder than everything else in I.T! But in my opinion, that's how it came accross).

Carmageddon

oh man, I loved m25 race for some reason, despite the fact that by all objective measures it was a steaming pile of fail.

Anyone else discover the real fun of this game was that all the physics etc were controlled by a set of plain text configuration files? Nothing quite like reducing gravity to moon-like levels, or increasing the weight of your car to that the slightest touch by a police car would send it flying into the distance..