that canadian girl

My oh my, you’ve submitted some great gaming stories from the 80′s and 90′s for my competition last week! Clearly, we all remember the uncertainty of whether a game would load successfully or not. Blowing into the NES cartridge hoping that we could get the dust out. Patiently waiting for games to load from a [...]

As an early birthday present to myself, I bought a Livescribe Pulse Smartpen earlier this week. It arrived yesterday and I’ve just been blown away by it so far. The pen improves on regular pens in two key ways: It registers anything that is written on paper, effectively scanning my handwriting as I go, which [...]

In April, That Canadian Girl celebrated 5 years of bloggy goodness and, yet again, I nearly missed its birthday. Oops! In reality I’ve been blogging for nearly 10 years – a friend kindly hosted my first diary-style site back in 1999 or 2000. The Wayback Machine can see a site on thatcanadiangirl.co.uk from 2002, which [...]

Recently, I’ve been falling in love with inanimate objects. I self-diagnosed I had a problem when I found myself talking to said objects while home alone. Either it’s cabin-fever from having spent the past few days in the house or I’m just losing my marbles. (Generous reward if marbles are returned) First gadget I’m in [...]

Subliminal messages in this video: Bunnies are sentient beings (and they’re evil, just look at the Raving Rabidds for example!) Donate to Comic Relief, even Keira the bunny contributed by buying a big red nose… ear… thing… Giving the bunny’s email address to my nutty old housemate was a bad idea. (This one’s not so [...]

Since Christmas, we’ve had little time to play Wii, but one game we’ve had for about a week has definitely got Andrew excited again. Wario Ware: Smooth Moves is even nuttier and more unbelievably fast-paced than Rayman was. Those who owns the game will understand this: THE best bit has to be the intro on [...]

No, don’t worry, I’m not announcing we’re having a baby! We’re having a bunny! That’s right, Keira, my Nabaztag/tag has been with us since before Christmas, but only recently has it become usable. First there were all the server issues at Violet in Paris. Then there was the unavoidable busy times with the holidays, Pepsmedia [...]

Knitting: I don’t know why, I just want to knit something painfully kitsch. I think it’s a mix of watching Ugly Betty, coming across an old blog entry by Katie mentioning crocheting, and just wanting one of those really soft scarves but never finding one I like. Get a Wacom graphics tablet: I’ve had a [...]

I’ve been playing Rayman: Raving Rabbids, and I’m loving its complete insanity. However, one minigame, “Bunnies have natural rhythm”, is a bit rubbish. You’re meant to kick four coloured stereos to turn them on, then get rid of the bunnies while they’re dancing. After a dozen attempts, you realise your Rayman simply isn’t kicking when [...]

Cabel‘s been playing Saints Row, and has produced what is possibly the most entertaining bug review in history – a Musical review. “For starters, it was literally, down to almost every detail, an exact clone of Grand Theft Auto. (I couldn’t believe Rockstar didn’t K.C. Munchkin all over their faces.) Saints Row does, to its [...]