Heather Armstrong (née Hamilton) born July 19 1975, is an US humorist and photographer who resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. She writes under the pseudonym of Dooce.

Armstrong ( nee. Hamilton ) was raised a Mormon in Tennessee, and majored in English at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in 1997 before moving to Los Angeles, California to work.

= Dooced Controversy=

In 2002, Hamilton ignited a fierce debate about privacy issues when she was fired from her job as a web designer and graphic artist because she had written satire of her experiences at a Dot-com startup on her weblog, [http://www.dooce.com/ Dooce.com]. The headlines gave rise to the slang expression [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.phpterm=dooced&r=f dooced ]: to lose ones job because of ones website.

Armstrong writes:

: I started this website in February 2001. A year later I was fired from my job for this website because I had written stories that included people in my workplace. My advice to you is BE YE NOT SO STUPID.

Despite the unclear legal basis for her sacking, Hamilton chose not to sue her employer for wrongful dismissal. She has also refrained from identifying her workplace in interviews.

=Dooce.com=

Armstrong returned to Salt Lake City to work as a consultant, and married [http://www.blurbomat.com Jon Armstrong], with whom she has a young daughter, Leta, and a dog, Chuck. She is now a stay-at-home mother. She has written extensively of her decades-long struggle with depression as well as poked fun at her pregnancy, parenthood, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

She has appeared on National Public Radio and ABC Radio National, and has been interviewed by the New York Times and the BBC . Armstrong has also won multiple [http://2005.bloggies.com/ Bloggies ] for excellence in writing for the internet.

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