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  • The end of an era (sort of)

    Hard to believe that today was my last day after nearly two years at my current job. It was a good two years, if a bit rocky by moments (ie. being made redundant then taken back on board with a…

  • Driving test: PASSED

    A few weeks ago, I introduced my wonderful new little Ford Ka, but what I failed to say is that it was a great big giant incentive to get my ass in gear and get my British driving license. Yep,…

  • Full vs partial RSS feeds

    Looking at my RSS feeds last night, I had a count of how many of my “Marketing Favourites” folder were full feeds and how many were just excerpts. As it turns out, only two of my top 15 feeds are…

  • Why I prefer Mac

    More Ctrl + Alt + Del cartoons

  • Warning: Blogging can result in losing your job or…

    You know how they always say “Watch what you blog about, you might get dooced?” I was never one to really listen to that nonsense, and felt blogging was a great outlet for personal woes and tales, as well as…

  • The Apprentice: What a bunch of incompetent twits

    I’ve just finished watching last week’s The Apprentice where Alan Sugar set the two teams the task of making as much money as possible in a single day, giving them £200 as starting funds. The girls decided to do face…

  • KT Tunstall's Big Black Horse with samplers

    I know I’m going a bit heavy on the videos these days, but this is just too good not to share. KT Tunstall is great, she’s such a REAL artist, and I think this video shows it again. Lone woman…

  • Colours that stay longer – Brother Innobella printer advert

    So British… By Duval Guillaume Antwerp for Brother Innobella printers [Via Adverblog]

  • Cadbury Creme Eggs

    Since we’re all still feeling the stomach ache from eating one too many chocolate Easter bunnies, this sugary topic is particularly suitable… I’ve never been that keen on the Cadbury Creme Eggs, but the envy takes me around once a…

  • I ate all the ice cream

    I must publicly apologise for eating all the Skinny Cow “Truly Lovin’ Toffee” ice cream this evening. Otherwise Andrew will take my blog down again and display the following message: “Sorry, thatcanadiangirl.co.uk is offline temporarily as Vero ate all of…