that canadian girl

Category: Web & Technology

  • Do you del.icio.us?

    If you don’t, I’m not in the mood to explain what it is, so visit the site and figure it out. But if you do…

  • Latest Shiny Shiny entries

    I forgot to link to my last few articles written for Shiny Shiny, so here they are. This week: Be Safe, Part II: Woman looking for man, lots of money, nice car, washboard abs Last week: Be Safe, Part I:…

  • When good demos go (very, very) bad

    So we all know that Microsoft have now announced that “Vista will be released when it is ready”, so don’t hold your breath, you’re likely to go grey before we see it. But how are the existing features coming along?…

  • GTD Slacker Drowns in Own Disorganisation: Community Devastated

    In late 2005, out of desperation and after a few months of feeling like I couldn’t make head nor tail of the JCB-loads of projects I had on, I ordered and read David Allen’s Getting Things Done. I’d first heard…

  • I blog, therefore I talk about cats

    There’s an unwritten rule in the blogosphere that one should not talk about their cat on their blog. It’s cheesy and highly uninteresting to everyone but you. But I’ve decided to break the rule just this once… This is my…

  • As a marketer, I promise to respect my designers

    These days, I’ve been doing a fair amount of work directly with the designers at work. I’m also sitting directly next to them (marketing and design together – whoddathunkit?) so I’m getting a lot more honesty as to what guidelines…

  • This is why outsourcing tech support is a bad idea

    amorfuss: “i’m having problems with your software in OSX” Indian tech support: “ok, first please to being click on the start menu” a: “i don’t have a start menu, i’m running osx” ITS: “please sir to being click on start…

  • Shiny Shiny's new tech columnist

    I’ve been itching to tell you about this for a while, but wanted to keep it under wraps until it was really happening. But now, I can officially say it – I’ve started writing for Shiny Shiny: A Girl’s Guide…

  • The Prompt of Doom: Having too many logins

    “You know the one I mean; when you visit some site that you haven’t been to for a while, long enough that you’ve changed browsers or something expired, and it asks you for your your username and password and you…

  • The end for allofmp3 in the UK?

    “Britons using bargain music download website allofmp3.com have been warned that they are breaking the law. Record industry trade association the BPI said consumers were breaking UK copyright law because allofmp3.com was not licensed to sell recordings”, say the Beebs…