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Re: How Do You Tame Your Inner Critic?

thatcanadiangirl — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:51:24 -0000

You've inspired a post today, Tara :) Since I don't think Disqus handles pingbacks, I thought I'd leave you a note.

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Re: SteinbergMedical

thatcanadiangirl — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:29:04 -0000

Bless, I love the Internet. Everyone calls fake so quickly.

The letter's all gross and water smeared because lamination is great when you spill your coffee on the page and need to wipe it off quicksticks. It's not so watertight that it can withstand 5 years under dirt and water.

Anyways, Simon's honoured that he's becoming a bit of an Internet urban legend :P

Re: Why Mowser Doesn't Suck - Mowser Blog

thatcanadiangirl — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:28:00 -0000

I've updated my post to point people here if they want to understand how Mowser is different to the average transcoder which is applied to an entire network without any thought or consideration for users.

:)
Vero

Re: Company (The Musical) - RussellBeattie.com

thatcanadiangirl — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:42:45 -0000

You continue to amaze me every day, you do!

Thanks for linking out to the clip - Company's a much-loved one of mine, and seeing it performed that way is fascinating. In fact, I've been struggling over the "Getting Married" song for about 10 years but still trip over my tongue halfway through ;)

American Broadway schools knock my socks off. From an early age, kids who like their music are encouraged to take part in school musicals and get in touch with their act-dance-sing skills. But add to that the (seemingly reasonably complex) pieces they must play while singing and acting, and I've fallen right on my ass. Stunning performance!

Hell I struggled to play the castanets while singing in my short-lived opera days doing Carmen (you're not alone with musical skeletons in the closet...) so a *real* instrument is a hell of a feat!

Re: The Real iEffect - RussellBeattie.com

thatcanadiangirl — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:34:31 -0000

Couldn't agree more here. The technology is, and has been, here for a little while, but Apple's managed to sexify it to the masses. I was shocked to see the kind of people buying iPhones in the UK. Sure they're still top-tier earners (since the contracts are pretty steep over here), but iPhone owners aren't purely your typical gadget geeks anymore. It's moms and dads, it's girls in their mid-20's who decide it's cheaper than getting a new phone and an iPod.

It's all about giving those convergence devices a boot up the ass and getting them past the canyon that divides uber-geek-only devices from mass market devices.

Re: RussellBeattie.com - Family Tech Support Weekend

thatcanadiangirl — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:29:56 -0000

Was that while using Vista on your end as well to take them step by step? What's worse is when you're expected to walk them through something where you don't have the same environment installed on your end, as though us geeks are supposed to be able to divinate solutions and fix things by pure brainwaves over the phone.

Ah well, hope you managed to get them up and running :) We left the inlaws on XP when we got them a new machine since it's safer to leave them in an environment they recognise. My dad on the other hand is stuck in this Mac OS 9.2, refusing to come into the world of OS X yet. Thankfully, for that reason he knows he can't ask for tech support on it ;)

Re: RussellBeattie.com - Gnome Do!

thatcanadiangirl — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:43:07 -0000

Sweet! I can't live without Quicksilver so it's good to see the quick-everything super app make its way to all other platforms.

Nice one David :)

Re: RussellBeattie.com - Temptation in giant net bags

thatcanadiangirl — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:42:52 -0000

Just *had* to blog this too :D

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