And now for something completely different... and to link up with the BCS Women's Forum and to focus on something non security for a moment, although my activity to link with this worldwide event was security related.

From sunrise in Antarctica to sunset in Hawaii - spanning a 44 hour day on 11 August 2008, "Women in IT" followed the lives of 36 women in technology across the globe.



Following the sun and the women - their lives and love of technology have been captured via photographic imagery, profiles and a "Day in the Life of..." diary. These tools describe what they do and how they contribute to our world and their shared passion for innovation technology.



All continents are covered with albums for Antarctica, Oceania, Asia, Africa, Mediterranean, Europe, Scandinavia, UK & The Republic of Ireland, North America East Coast, Caribbean, Middle America, South America and North America West Coast.



The role models represent a wide diversity of women in technology industries with ages spanning from early 20's through to near retirement, their areas of technology passions span traditional information technology eg. CTO, software, hardware, support, consulting, sales and marketing services to communications, knowledge management, governance, data mining, open source advocacy, web design, graphic art, instrumentation design, configuration engineering, computational biology, microelectronics, molecular biology, research, geo spatial, educational, medical and legal technologists.



The end result - the "Doing IT Around the World Album Series and the "August 11 - A Day in the Life of Diary" tells amazing real life stories and deliver an educational tool for school children as well as being a motivational tool for women in the industry to help address the issue of retaining women in the industry, by demonstrating the multiple career paths and geographic locations that women with technology skills can and do take up.



My day was spent doing Windows updates and securing a friends PC that had been neglected for far too long! You may check it out on www.passionit.info and Computerworld.