that canadian girl

As a total foodie, I find that challenging your tastebuds and trying new flavours regularly is one of the joys of life. I always feel a bit sorry for people afflicted with allergies, pregnant women (who can’t eat soft cheese or sushi!) and diabetics. While we all need to watch what we eat to avoid [...]

In the past few days, I’ve read some genuinely interesting articles which I’ve been meaning to blog, but to avoid stale blog entries in my drafts, I’ll just share the links and let you read on. Fair use in the digital world according to Thomas Hawk Companies without conversation: Hasbro/Mattel on Scrabulous and Target on [...]

With the beginning of a new year comes a brand new look for our Pepsmedia website. We’ve been so privileged to have the opportunity to work with interesting, open (and sometimes challenging) clients in recent months, and they have kept us so busy that we’d neglected to update our own portfolio. I’m looking forward to [...]

This week, it is my honour to be hosting the second Travel Blog Carnival, launched last week by Darren at Travel-Rants. Last week, Europe a la Carte‘s Karen hosted the first carnival. Without further ado, here are my favourite submissions this week. First, brand new blog J Top Ten publishes the Top 5 biggest comparisons [...]

Jane Dallaway suggested that I write about apps that help me get things done. As a Mac user, I love to try out new applications written by smaller developers, so I thought I’d share the list of everything I use regularly, so go have a look at my profile on IUseThis. I’ll go in more [...]

Today, a certain friend of mine spotted a three year old entry on my blog named “International Boredom Day” and suggested I should write an update about it. While it’s not a written suggestion, it’s good enough for me today Indeed, tomorrow, we shall be celebrating 3 years since I pronounced January 9th International Boredom [...]

As first entry for my infamous Blog Topic Challenge, I thought I’d begin with an elementary and logical first step. James Whatley, SpinVox blogger and great friend of mine, suggested that I should “write about your job and everyone you have ever met in your niche industry…” Great suggestion, but there are just too many [...]

If you’re going to South by Southwest in March, let it be known. Add yourself to the wiki list started by Colleen and Adele, two Twitterers I’m following. It’ll be a first-time for me, so I’m open to any opportunity to plan to meet and hang out with other bloggers or Twitterers! [Update: Durr, forgot [...]

This blog has always been fairly adhoc in terms of topics, with the only running threads being technology, marketing, customer service or personal family stuff. As an experiment beginning on Monday, Jan 7th, I’ll write a post a day – every day including weekend – on a topic of my readers’ choice. Depending on the [...]