“Hey Ma, Alex went to see the Avengers, can we go too?”
Cringe. While the idea of sitting and watching Paul Bettany for two hours sounds great to me, I have no idea if the movie is appropriate for my little guy to watch. I mean, I know it’s rated PG-13, but all the ‘other’ kids are watching it. Is there swearing? Sex? Violence?
The last few months have been tough here in the Ottawa area. Friends and family in the government circles have lost their jobs, or gotten notices that they will soon. Others have been restructured or laid off and are struggling to find work now that the market is even more flooded with summer students.
It sucks.
Maybe it’s Earth Day, or maybe it’s spring cleaning, but questions to my inbox have shifted lately from ‘what should we buy?’ to ‘how do we dispose of our electronics?’
Did you know that every year, 20 to 50 million metric tons of E-waste are disposed of worldwide?
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Krista Swanson remembers a few things about high school: falling flat on her face during a recreational volleyball game, learning to type on an electric typewriter, and being told that a woman could never make it in technology.
Fast forward a few years, and you may have seen her around town balancing a BlackBerry in one hand and an iPad in the other. Although she's no longer playing volleyball (she switched to running), she has learned how to program computer software, and become a kick-ass IT project manager. She's married to another techie who understands her addiction to Twitter a proud Mom to a geekling who can use an iPad with his eyes closed.
So whether it's an educational app recommendation to keep the kids busy on a rainy day, a review of the latest parenting gadget, or confirmation that your partner isn't crazy for wanting to buy that 110 inch projector screen for the basement, you'll find it all here.
Follow Krista on Twitter: @Ksswansong
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