I'm still trying to decide whether having two people working in tech in the same house is a good thing.

Before I had children, I was a developer. I coded. And generally, I tended to follow along in whatever technology my husband was working in. I started out as a VB developer and DBA doing largely Access work (and yes, it pains me, but this was when SQLServer wasn't in wide distribution and your choices were small-scale of Access and then Oracle with little in between. I moved on to Cold Fusion development and doing a lot of web interfaces with DHTML back before AJAX was the latest and greatest, and then my last job was doing QA for Java apps.

In the intervening years, I took a step back from tech, dabbling in writing a bit, but not keeping up with all the latest and greatest. Now that I've been back in tech, or at least writing about it, we seem to have gotten back into the rousing arguments that I remember from Web 1.0. My kids, the oldest of whom is 8, have asked what "the semanic [sic] web is, and why does it make Daddy angry?"

I think that my husband's jaded approach to Web 2.0 may have made me a touch cynical, but at the same time, I approach each new product with a jaundiced eye. I like to think that I like only the best that are out there, and am able to separate the wheat from the chaff with my viewpoint, but in reality, every time I find something new and cool that I want to share with him, I brace myself for his cynicism. I'm still trying to get him to request a Profy invite.