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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 [...]

I was recently approached by Creative Labs, who offered me goodies to use in a competition here on That Canadian Girl. The part of their pitch that caught my attention (and made me laugh) was the mention of Sound Blaster sound cards. Do you remember them? Back in the 80′s? I do. This gave me an [...]

Last week, I ran a competition, inviting readers to leave comments and share their best home office or lifehack tip in order to win an LG 23″ monitor. As it turns out, my readers are just as awesomely geeky as I am. Once the competition ended, I used the Random Number Generator to choose a [...]

It’s never been a secret that I’m a bit of a GTD nerd, and since working from home, have tried to tweak my home office to be as welcoming as possible. So recently, when LG offered to send me a 23″ W53 monitor to review AND one to give away to readers, I couldn’t resist [...]

Around lunchtime today, Stephen Fry, national treasure and Twitter celeb, announced that to celebrate having 50,000 followers, he would hold a challenge: He adds “There’s the competition in a nutshell below. Star it for reference. The prize will be good and sent anywhere in the world.” Now I’m not quite sure what makes Stephen’s challenge [...]

South by SouthWest, Future of Web Apps, Future of Mobile, Fuel Conference, Mobile World Congress… Yes, I love conferences and, most of all, I love meeting new people. Coming up soon is Being-Digital, a conference organised by the Mashup* events crowd, and I’m going along with Bob Last, from Taptu, who’s going to be speaking [...]