that canadian girl

Category: General Entries

  • Big discounts on Mac software

    This is just a quick little heads-up for my fellow Mac users, Give Good Food to Your Mac is giving some big discounts, varying from 30% if you buy 3 apps to 70% if you buy ten. None of the…

  • Felix catfood: Which one would you feed your kittens?

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  • The Secret Strategies Behind Many 'Viral' Videos or why Dan Ackerman Greenberg is an idiot

    [Disclaimer: I realise the last thing I should be doing is giving this guy more visibility and mentions on the web, but his original article, as well as his follow-up REALLY rubbed me up the wrong way and I need…

  • Wondering what to get me for Christmas? How about Powerbook earrings?

    These are just awesome! I would absolutely love to have power button earrings. Posh frock, nice shoes, and geek earrings. Fun, a bit odd and unusual. How good would that be? 925works also does other stuff, like bracelets and necklaces,…

  • Find out if you're still a child at heart in one easy step

    Does this look as tempting to you as it does to both Russell and I? It’s like there’s an invisible force field pulling me towards those. Not sure if I would’ve managed to resist, had I been there!

  • Jack & Rose checking out Super Mario Galaxy

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  • Geek update of the week

    Sorry if posting’s been a bit on the lean side recently, I’ve been, shall we say, rather busy. So here’s the past two weeks in summary… We got kittens, we got kittens, we got kittens! I’ve been spending nearly every…

  • Political correctness gone absolutely bloody bonkers!

    So Christmas the holiday season is coming, and as if we needed any more political correctness madness going on, Santas have been warned not to use their age-old “ho ho ho” laugh to greet children as it may be degrading…

  • Must PR people and bloggers be like oil and water?

    Last week, Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail and Wired Magazine blogger, lashed out at lazy PR people. The crux of the story is that Chris gets torrents of press releases, some more or less relevant, from public relations…

  • Plastic carrier bags vs paper bags

    Dear Britain, Every year, over 17.5 billion plastic carrier bags are given out by supermarkets to enable you to take your shopping home. We all collect bags of bags, reusing maybe 5% of them at most, and disposing of the…