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MorgannaLeFey

Siobhan Perricone

Orange, VT 05641
USA

in her forties

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Bio

My day job is as a web applications and database developer. I also do a lot of playing online, and have built online communities of various sorts. I play text-based MUDs, and have done building in those, as well. I =love= computers and technology, and feel strongly that women need to embrace it. We need you! There are too many jobs and not enough people as it is. It’s a lucrative career! JOIN US! ;)

Education

I’ve been to college twice, and dropped out twice. First when I was 18, I was a theater arts major. I lasted just under a year. Then when I was in my 30s I was a women’s studies and psychology major for around two and a half years in a self-directed degree program.

All my computer knowledge is self-taught or learned in day- or week-long training sessions.

Career

I worked my way into programming through office administration and computerizing pretty much every office where I worked. I gradually got into database and web applications development through a complicated route of working with contractors who built databases for us and having a husband who is an outstanding programmer and who studied computer programming languages in school. :)

Interests

bad astronomy blog computers databases feminism friendly atheist humanism humanist skepchick skepticism steampunk web applications

Morganna Le Fey's Blog Entries

Becoming girly

7:36PM 06/08/2010
This is going to be a long post, and it’s more ruminations on this change happening in me, and some observations about how it isn’t really impacting my work or coworkers in any significant ways. Hope you don’t mind the rambling too much. When I was a teenager I wore makeup (read more...)
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Public Service and Women in Tech

2:00PM 03/08/2010
I just attended an EPA user’s conference for a solid waste management program called RCRA. The EPA has system called RCRAInfo, which is where states submit the pertinent data for consumption by a wide variety of individuals. During one of the panel discussions I was struck by how many women there (read more...)
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Falling in love with computers

9:38PM 02/17/2010
I think it all started with the electric typewriter. I loved that thing. My father was a free-lance writer who produced a fair amount, and was actually published in a few magazines. He used the electric typewriter, of course, and it was in the “study” which always had a desk (read more...)
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Morganna Le Fey's Comments

Games in the Workplace at 4:00PM 08/31/10
I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, yeah, I see what you’re saying. On the other hand, why should I have to be the one who changes? (read more...)

Ada Lovelace Day -- the women of Stemming! at 12:19PM 03/25/10
Lola, you are my hero. :) WAY cool. Math rocks. :)

Public Service and Women in Tech at 1:33PM 03/11/10
I am not always the best person to come up with ideas like that, but it seems to me that public service, in general, gets a pretty bad rap from (read more...)