Saturday, October 20, 2007

Did your library buy any of these?

The IT Girl's Guide to Blogging with Moxie
The IT Girl's Guide to Becoming a Web Goddess
The IT Girl's Guide to Becoming an Excel Diva

Amazon has this for a description: "The IT Girl’s Guides are the antidote to blah technical references that can poison women’s enthusiasm for technology topics."

I just want you to know that, as a female, I agree that boring computer manuals have always held me back from becoming tech-geeky. That's why I keep sheets of Hello Kitty and Strawberry Shortcake and Spice Girls stickers around to girl-up my gear. For example, my All-in-one Microsoft Office guide has a big image of Bubbles (from The Powerpuff Girls) on it, because she's like, my patron goddess, because I can be really sensitive like her, but I can also be really tough.

So now I love that a publisher is finally trying to attract me by making books pretty. Because what's the point of working in the library if it can't be beautiful and sweet and cool. If only the whole world could be pink and smell like cotton candy and be soft like puppies.