{"id":1872,"date":"2010-03-25T11:56:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T01:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2010-03-25T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T01:56:31","slug":"finding-ada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/25\/finding-ada\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Ada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science.<\/p>\n

-\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/findingada.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is something I had wanted to do last year… and I’m finding I have the same problem this year. My idea was to write about someone who has had an influence on me. The problem is picking one person to write about. Throughout my life there have been many women in technology who have influenced me. I started going through people in my head… and got to a very long list rather quickly.<\/p>\n

So, instead, I shall write about the future.<\/p>\n

To the future Ada, who will think this whole exercise of picking a woman in technology to write about as absurd as if we, today, picked a woman who votes to write about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. -\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/findingada.com\/ This is something I had wanted to do last year… and I’m finding I have the same problem this year. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[270,274,271,273,272],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","tag-ada-lovelace","tag-ald10","tag-findingada","tag-technology","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-uc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3191,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/31\/those-who-do-not-know-the-future-are-doomed-to-repeat-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":1872,"position":0},"title":"Those who do not know the future are doomed to repeat it","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-12-31","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC) in Sydney where I gave the dinner keynote. 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