that canadian girl

I’ve had the same old phone for a couple of years, the Nokia 6100, a simple but sort of featureless little phone. It did me well, but I desperately wanted a camera phone as a way to spice this blog up a bit (and to quiet my mom down about not sending enough photos home [...]

TechEBlog presents the top 10 strangest Lego creations. I suspect my dad would love the Lego harpsichord, but the Pinball machine is the one that does it for me. I have a hard time believing someone would manage to put a working Pinball machine together using only Lego, but it’s a pretty cool (and brave) [...]

Remember when I was complaining about being unable to read Yahoo Mail’s verification image a few weeks ago? Looks like I’m not alone getting frustrated with this trend of adding Captchas to every booking form you fill in or comment you want to leave on someone’s blog. Seth finds himself fighting with the Ticketmaster site, [...]

No way! I think these BrightFeet Light Slippers were made for me! I can finally see where I’m going when I need a wee in the middle of the night, but without blinding myself by turning the ceiling light on. I truly AM the queen of clumsiness! There was a certain yogurt incident a couple [...]

Last night, we stayed at some friends’ house and had a really good evening. Nice food, good wine, and great friends. And one really fun game! We played Buzz, a music quiz game I’d read about on the BBC site a few weeks earlier. It sounded like a fun game, if you had great musical [...]

This could explain the lag issues some people were complaining about today…

The race is on! Before we even put away our summer clothes, shops bring in the Christmas stock; chocolates in festive colours, sparkly decorations for the tree but most of all, electronics of all sorts, announced with as much fuss as possible. The gadgets market has undeniably gone beyond the stereotypical young hip man with [...]

Had to happen, didn’t it? The same happened to so many other illegal music-sharing sytems that BitTorrent’s system was too good for the industry to pass. The idea? Gather movies, music, games, and software from Hollywood studios and indie producers alike and distribute them to consumers. BitTorrent would generate revenue either by selling ads within [...]

John Wells covers a lifetime of Mac operating systems – From the humble Apple Macintosh System 1.0 which booted from a disc to the ferocious OS X Tiger. Check out the screenshots for a real blast from the past! Certainly brings back memories for me, and certainly will for my dad as well. I belonged [...]

Ok, here’s a memory test, first of all for my sisters, but for anyone who might recognize this game! You had to race across the desert on a camel, walking or running, ensuring you ate, drank water and gave your camel some rest. The Barbarians weren’t far behind and could catch up with you. You [...]