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Category: Technology

Losing My Nintendo

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Cheryl

For most of my gaming life, I was a Nintendo girl (and a PC girl, but those are other stories.) Our first real gaming console was the Atari 2600, which was loved but ultimately met an untimely demise when my brothers left

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Games, Technology

The Friends You’ve Only Sort of Met

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Cheryl

I’m squarely in the middle of the pack of the Internet. I’m not famous and never will be, but I’ve been around a fair bit and have worked in a number of places, so there are many social networking connections to manage.

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Biography, Meta, Technology career

My Camera Has More Fun Than I Do

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Cheryl

I remember going to a wedding as a kid back in the late 80s or early 90s and finding myself even then perplexed by the videographers’ jarring omnipresence. It seemed that no one at the event could see the event unfolding for

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Biography, Technology

Take Your Kids to Work The Carnival Day

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Cheryl

Last Friday was Take Your Kids to Work Day, formerly Take Your Daughters to Work Day. I participated as a mentor, talking to kids and answering questions about how to combine art and technology in jobs at places like Microsoft. Now, it’s

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Seattle, Technology, Women in Technology, Work education, girls-tech, job shadows, Microsoft, STEM

Company Girl

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Cheryl

There are many valid ways to pursue one’s career aspirations, but most tend to fall into two categories: I most definitely fall into the latter category. I have tremendous respect for those who can weather the storms of uncertainty that plague entrepreneurs,

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Biography, Technology, Women in Technology career, game development, Microsoft 1 Comment

Memories of Game Dev: The N-Gage

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Cheryl

Before coming to Microsoft and working on server software, I shipped quite a few video games during my time with Electronic Arts and Griptonite Games. Game development is a fickle mistress. Yes, you’re working on the things that you love, but slowly

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Games, Technology

First Look: I Touch My Kindle

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Cheryl

Intro By popular demand: my first thoughts on my Kindle Touch 3G (no ads), which arrived just hours ago at my front door. First of all, I bought this device entirely out of curiosity and love for Kindles – my second generation

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Design, Technology interaction design

My Phone Home

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Cheryl

I love my Windows Phone 7. Of course, you might assume that I’m biased because I work for Microsoft. And maybe you’d be right, except that I’m very picky about my phone and won’t use something that’s crap. When I started at

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Design, Technology interaction design

Dear Departed Icons

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Cheryl

Hey kids, let’s sit down and read a bedtime story! Once upon a time, we made photorealistic representations of everything we wanted to do on the computer. I know, right? Human ingenuity is so… plucky, cramming all that info into a 16×16

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Design, Technology interaction design 1 Comment

My Precious

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Cheryl

I’m not a car nut or anything like that, but I DO love my car. It enables my life, spread out as it is over the entirety of the Puget Sound. It’s been with me longer than I’ve lived in Seattle. You

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Biography, Seattle, Technology service design
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