Daily Archives: May 14, 2004

Kent….it’s okay to notice that we’re chicks!

Just Rambling

Poor Kent [Tengels] …he’s in between a rock and a hard place. It’s the old post-feminist quandry: “Should I open the door and be polite or will I be accused of being sexist?”

Why did I say I think “dasBlonde” is very funny for the name of Michele’s blog? Well, she is blonde (and brilliant), she’s using dasBlog and it’s a good play on words. Kent, it’s okay to notice. From my perspective, as I should let Michele speak for herself…just don’t make it be what I’m all about. I’m a programmer and I’m a chick* and I have red hair (well hard to define the color really sometimes ðŸ™‚ ) and I live in Vermont.

*Why the heck do I say “I’m a chick”? Because I’m way too old to say “I’m a girl”, I’m way too young to say “I’m a woman”. Don’t dare call me a lady. So “chick” works for me – it feels timeless, ageless and cool. But on my terms as there are many ways to use that word and I certainly don’t like all of them.

Omar Shahine moves from Mac to email

Community Cheerleading

Omar has worked in the Mac area of Microsoft for 5 years, most recently as the Lead PM for the VPC Mac team. He is now packing up his proverbial bag (8 boxes that is) to move over to the “FrontDoor” team which is things related to email: DAV, Passport, Hotmail, SMTP, etc. He will be the lead program manager. This is one of the beauties of working for a huge company. You can stay there for many years and still have lots of change. I had dinner with Omar in Boston in February and will never forget hearing him talk about how much he loves working for Microsoft.