After listening to a session by Elisa Camahort at the BlogHer conference I began to think that I haven’t hired many women since I’ve been in the tech industry. At one time or another I’ve been in a position to hire for Software Developers, IT Managers, and Technical Project Managers. Maybe it’s a reflection on the recruiters I use or the areas where I look for qualified candidates but I can only think of a couple of instances where a woman was hired. I can think of many instances where I didn’t have a single woman apply for the position especially for IT and Developers jobs.

In my current position I hire Technical Project Mangers or Technical Producers. I’d say that our clients are split 60% male and 40% female. I currently do not have a single woman on my team. Is it wrong to say that the next I hire for one of these positions I’d prefer a women? My problem comes when I ask for referrals or post the job to our company website or Craigslist because, in the past, few women have applied for the job. As a company I’d say we have a fairly balanced group of men and women, but not in the technical groups.

I don’t want to know how much quarters I burned through playing Pac Man in the 80’s. I’m sure enough that I could have purchased my own machine. It took a while but once I learned the Pac Man pattern I could play for hours on a few quarters. But running through the library in a Pac Man costume looks like even more fun.
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One of my favorite places to find good podcasts dealing with technology is at IT Conversations. I’ve been downloading some of the older podcasts from Bloggercon which have been some of the most interesting I’ve heard. You can download many podcasts for free or a full members is only $50/year which is a steal given the quality of the content.

Here is the original ad from Sony.
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After calling a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times a homosexual slur, Ozzie Guillen, had this to say about his actions:

“I don’t have anything against those people. In my country, you call someone something like that and it is not the same as it is in this country.”

Maybe Guillen should go back to his country, Venezuela. That’s Ozzie on the left kissing one his players.

This ad for the Body Groom shaver from Philips Norelco reminds of the wacky subservient chicken ad that Burger King ran a while back. I couldn’t stop laughing though as I watched it. Very clever.

A lot if you’re the CEO of Hooters. He is one smart guy. When he realized that $200 worth of Dom Perignon had been purchased with Hurricane Katrina funds at one of his establishments, he offered to send a $200 check to FEMA.

Now many major news outlets (including MSNBC) pickup the story and also mention the $250,000 Hooters has donated to Red Cross Katrina Fund. This seems like a lot of positive publicity for a company for basically nothing.

A very different commercial for the new Toyota Camry. Their tagline is “Human Touch” but I couldn’t help but thinking it should something along the lines of “Every Camry comes with many engineers”. Unlike most ads, I’d watch this one to the end.
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I’ll be very impressed if Microsoft allows them to keep this site up. If you’re looking to test out Windows Vista this is probably the fasted way to download the ISO to get up and running.

Update: Well, that didn’t take long to shut down