Jennifer L | Blue Wave Studio

Five months ago, two of my good friends entered the lottery for Olympic tickets and they were informed last week that they were granted tickets to four (out of their requested six) events: basketball, diving, water polo, and volleyball. Which means… I am going to Beijing next summer! I happened to be in San Francisco’s [...]

I recently attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Computing Conference in Orlando, FL. Nearly 1,400 women who were undergraduates, PhD students, faculty, staff, and other working professionals gathered to discuss technology and changing the future through computer science, information technology, research and engineering. It wasn’t so much as a “rah rah” event (as [...]

Yesterday at around 5:45pm, a good friend of mine called me telling me she had a question that she thought I would be able to answer. I thought she wanted directions to a place as a few of my friends and I often call each other for directions hoping that the other person is in [...]

Yesterday was the Mac OS X Leopard Launch. I’m excited to try out the new features of Mail.app, Time Machine, and Spaces, but I haven’t gotten my copy yet. However, I found it somewhat amusing that an hour before the official worldwide launch I got an email from the “Worldwide Developer Relations” team about an [...]

Earlier this month, a friend of mine who’s on the Board of Berkeley Engineering’s Dean’s Society invited me to accompany him to their event on “The Future of Technology” at the Googleplex. The talk focused on the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley and their involvement with technology. First year engineering courses in the college [...]

Last month, I attended the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) Fall Focus Session titled Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World. (Educause is “a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.” Educause is also the sole registrar for .edu domains.) The focus session [...]

Last week, thanks to a friend, I went to Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and saw the current special exhibit on manga which was pretty good. Some of the stories are just weird, but I guess that’s not out of the ordinary? The exhibit runs until September 9th.

geekSessions is yet another tech networking event in the Bay Area. More specifically (according to their site): A high-end networking event that brings recognized experts from the Web space together to speak on a new topic each session. A place with smart people and free beer. Having seen the event topic — Web Infrastructure: Surviving [...]