that canadian girl

Category: General Entries

  • Making your own homemade liqueurs

    One of my latest posts was about reducing your consumption and making Christmas cards, and this one’s about making fruit liqueurs. I can hear my mom laughing from here, thinking I’m turning into Suzie Homemaker. But don’t panic, I’m still…

  • Valleyrag's Boutin says blogging is dead, I say good riddance!

    Desperate as ever to get a rise out of bloggers, Paul Boutin, of Valleywag fame (or shame, your choice), has been writing in Wired’s Entertainment section that “Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004”. He says “Thinking about launching…

  • A new year, a new beginning & a new challenge

    It’s been radio silence on that canadian girl for the past few weeks, but certainly not because I haven’t had anything to say. These past few weeks have been some of the most eventful ones of my life, in fact.…

  • The BarCamp Virgin's Guide: Making the most of your first BarCamp

    What is a BarCamp? Wikipedia’s description is “BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols,…

  • My Omni and me

    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…

  • Safety Goat needs saving!

    Kat from Safety Goat is a London-based designer, she sent us a really awesome little silicon moulded goat, equipped with safety vest. I’ve yet to meet Kat (@kassy4), but she’s a fellow Ottawa-ian (as she says), which is rare in…

  • Blogging as part of a marketing role: Give it the time it deserves

    In the corporate world, there are more blogs than ever. Along the lines of 70% of Fortune 500 companies will have at least dipped a little toe in it by this year, according to Wikipedia’s utterly incomplete entry. For a…

  • Sushi & business have more in common than you might think

    A few months ago, we popped by Bluewater shopping centre in Kent to get my MacBook fixed and, being the total sushi addicts that we are, we couldn’t resist the detour by Yo Sushi when lunchtime rolled around. Even though…

  • Using Your Network to Grow as an Entrepreneur

    Recently, I’ve been thinking long and hard about ways to use the incalculably fantastic network of intelligent, experienced and creative people I’ve met over the past few years; 170 LinkedIn contacts, nearly a thousand Twitter followers, mountains of business cards…

  • Time to pick your favourite SXSW 2009 panels

    It’s barely been a few months since I’ve stopped clap-trapping on about how utterly awesome my first SXSW experience was, but yes, I’m already talking about the NEXT South by SouthWest. I realise it isn’t until March 2009 and that…