Who would have thought?

website@infoadvisors.com — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:44:00 GMT

In browsing technorati for other data modeling-related blogs, I came across the blog at Tincat Group:

Musings about software development, with a focus on data modeling.

Dawn Wolthuis writes in her blog about data modeling and management, throwing in several cat references and, of interest to me, a great summary of why she got into IT.

I have even avoided joining ACM until last year when I wanted to download more papers than would make sense on a pay-per basis. I didn't like Machinery in the name. I have no interest in machinery, much less an association for such machinery.

Gawd, I can really relate. I'm not in this IT thing for writing code, typing, or swapping out hard drives. Of course, I have to do this from time to time - especially the typing. Girls (and I really do mean young people of the female gender) are opting out of IT careers because they, for the most part, don't relate to machines nearly as much as boys do.

Dawn has a much more eloquent way of expressing why she is interested in data management and not just databases:

I like movement and connections. To me, data processing is like travel, like movement. Databases are more like computers and cars. I'm not interested in bases of data. I'm interested in uses of data, in data movement

You should check out her blog:

http://www.tincat-group.com/mewsings/2006/01/data-movement.html

Karen Lopez: Musings on Data, Process, and Architecture

Who would have thought?