Ingrid, Cyberbabe extraordinaire

This is a Harvard Business Review-esque story about a very gifted woman in the world of computer science who just so happens to be my girlfriend. Less than 8 months ago, Ingrid decided she wanted a computer. At the time, I thought it was a rather expensive paperweight and expected that AT MOST she would use it to chat and write emails to her friends abroad. Little did I know, I had a budding IT tech just waiting to blossom.

Sure, she started off with just the basic computer skills, but quickly learned about the benefits of Wi-Fi; setting up a network in her house and occasionally using the Hotspots around Berlin.

Ingrid’s next big step towards computer wisdom was developing a bit of an online personality. She is caught up in the blogging fad and maintains an online photo archive to compete with any. She is VERY proud that her blogger posts are up a good day or two before mine.

I appreciate Ingrid’s natural flare for computers the most when it applies to LAN games, the most noteworthy being Starcraft. It is a rather difficult game master, but after only a few days playing the campaigns she was ready to network with the big boys and hold her own against as many 5 other players! I don’t know if I will ever be a prouder boyfriend than the day she compared terrorism to the zerg. (that only narrowly beat out the day she could eat more Wasabi Beans than me :)

The epitome of Ingrid’s computer aptitude happened just a week ago. Ingrid, Marcelo and myself got together for dinner and for some reason the topic turned to online storage (a topic that would have put the Ingrid of yesteryear asleep, but now she was VERY engaged). Marcelo enlightened everyone with the fact that all yahoo accounts are automatically registered with a free website from geocities.com. Ingrid could hardly wait to finish dinner before she ran home to try her hand at web developing … something she knew virtually nothing about, nor did she want any help with. She wanted to prove to her dorky engineering friends (and to herself) that she could develop a web page as good as the rest. See the results for your self here and then compare it to mine. The consequence of out dorking the dorks means Ingrid truly desires the title of Cyberbabe extraordinaire.