technology

The future of eReaders

I found the video below through a tweet from @newspaperman and it got me thinking of the advance of technology. I recently bought a Sony Reader (PRS 505) and have been following the reviews and critiques. I’ve been reading eboks for years, started on a Palm Pilot black and white, then a Zire71 and just ...

Life After Firefox

No, Firefox is not a new kind of genetically enhanced animal. It’s a free browser that lets you surf the internet in a completely new way. It’s sturdier, less sensitive to attacks by viruses and worms, it has tons of features, and it’s fast. Firefox has several basic advantages: first, it’s completely free. ...

Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women

While surfing for something completely unrelated to this post, I found this nifty webzine (it probably exists also on paper):Popgadget. The zine, which is more blog-like than zine-like, touts itself as a technology magazine for women: Technology magazines ignore women and women’s magazines ignore technology. Popgadget is a lifestyle magazine that embraces technology as a regular ...

Technical problems, travelling, et al.

For those who visit my blog regularly, many apologies. It appears that it wasn’t accessible for a whole month. There’s an explanation for it, I promise. On 8 September, I left for Rome (Italy, not the US, where there are actually 10 States who have a town called Rome) for a month. Came back last ...

A New Look

I had to choose another look for my blog, because of a Wordpress update that made the theme I was using obsolete. There are hundreds of new themes to choose from, but I decided on this one because it’s a very similar green to the one I had before, and I’m stressed right now so ...
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About Me

I was born in Montreal, Quebec (that’s in Canada, folks) but was raised in a small Quebec Laurentians town called Mont-Laurier. I didn’t stay there long, though, and studied and lived in Montreal, Ottawa and Halifax, where I obtained my Masters Degree in Psychology from Saint Mary’s University.Throughout the years, I’ve been a housekeeper, ...