that canadian girl

Do you ever look back at past achievements and feel yourself swell with pride because, with hindsight, you now realise how well you and others did? This morning, poking around Flickr, I came across Tom’s photo of the schedule board at SocialMediaCamp London, which was back in October. We gathered 100 attendees, many of which [...]

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about my #themeword for 2008, which was exploration. My objectives were to explore in four key areas; travel, business opportunities, new or unused skills and friendships/ relationships. In reflection, it was a good year. In fact, it was an amazing year. I could have done better in terms of [...]

A few weeks ago, Andrew and I wanted to get a couple of beanbags so that we could slouch right in front of the TV to play Lego Indiana Jones (which was a rocking game, btw!). We ended up ordering a couple of pear shaped brown leatherette bean bags. But by some most bizarre coincidence, [...]

It’s my duty as Canadian to post today and wish all fellow Canucks, in the homeland and abroad, a wonderful, sunny, lively Canada Day. I’ve been away from home for quite some time and won’t be doing much partying, but I may have to cook something involving maple syrup tonight. Have a good one! Credits: [...]

I wasn’t so hot on this panel, found there was a lot of navel-gazing and not enough direction. Also, I don’t know what world these guys live in but do they not also have to contend with marketing, business dev, crazy bosses with wild ideas? There was no discussion about how to integrate the real-life [...]

Ottawa New Year 2008, originally uploaded by Seamus @ Flickr. Last night, we braved the crowds at the Museum of Civilizations in Hull so that we could see the beautiful fireworks. Unfortunately, I wasn’t smart enough to bring my camera along and my iPhone would have been pretty much useless in such a condition, so [...]

Reason #3 spending Xmas back at home is worthwhile: Talking Julie into eating an uncooked Pogo (corn dog) covered in Nutella for the measly sum of $12 in small change. Julie likes pogos with Nutella, originally uploaded by thatcanadiangirl.

Since I started blogging, iStockphoto has been my source of images to illustrate and accompany blog entries. The images were once cheap enough that a blogger who made no revenue like myself could afford to pepper the occasional post with an image to joosh it up a bit. Now, however, I think I’m going to [...]

Jack & Rose checking out Super Mario Galaxy, originally uploaded by thatcanadiangirl. In their professional opinion, the game rates 11 out of 10. With the exception of intro scenes, which could do with some basic anti-aliasing. Best bit? That little blue hand that moves around the screen, definitely!

I promised everyone photos as soon as the kittens get home. I expected to have to stick the camera in the cat box, where they’d be hiding all nervous about their new home. Rubbish! They were chilled during the whole journey home, after about 5 minutes of meowing, then once home, they explored the entire [...]