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Your hostess on this site is Deirdré Straughan (that’s pronounced DEAR-druh STRAWN). Professional bio Tech industry veteran retired after 40 years, having gained experience and deep expertise across a wide range of technologies, companies, roles, and geographies.
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Still a Member of the Cancer Tribe
August, 2024: I'm coming up on the tenth anniversary of when I was diagnosed with breast cancer, and nine years since active treatment (surgery, chemo, radiation) ended. Since then I've been taking tamoxifen to suppress estrogen in my body because mine wa
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Color and Light
I began wearing glasses for nearsightedness at age eight or nine - I was the classic kid who couldn't read the blackboard, back when children were not as routinely tested for vision problems. My vision got continually worse over my lifetime; I was accusto
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Manterrupting in the Hallway Track
Women, stop me if you've heard this one before: You're at a tech conference, one that you are attending as a tech professional with interest and expertise in the subject matter. You're standing talking to a man - perhaps he's a speaker whose talk you just
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Just… Wow
By a combination of circumstances, somewhat my "fault", my University of Texas roommate Robyn ended up living quite near me in Europe: she has long been in Neuchatel, Switzerland; I lived for 17 years nearby in Italy, first in Milan, later on Lake Como. S
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Bangladesh Memories
In 1976, after a period of unemployment in Connecticut, my father accepted a job with Save the Children (US), as country head of their operations in Bangladesh. He and I and my stepmother Nancy moved to Dhaka (then spelled Dacca) around October, 1976. We
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