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Say Goodbye to Google Reader

Posted on 2013 by Christina ~ 2 Comments

This is very sad. Or so I’m told. I’m not a Google Reader user. And I guess I won’t be starting now. I was sad when Google killed off Google Health. And I worry about what this means for other Google products I use. But life is full of change, right?

A Case for Your Tablet (Giveaway!)

Posted on 2013 by Christina ~ 3 Comments

Remember when tablets were expensive and it was rare to see anyone sporting one? That is so last year. According to IDC, 52.5 million units sold worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2012. And that means everyone has one. (Well, you know what I mean. Lots of people do. You probably do.) But don’t they all look the same? Except…

A Geek for Clean

Posted on 2013 by Christina ~ 1 Comments

I have spent a good part of the last few months researching the future for a series of articles in Family Circle. One of those stories — The Future Home — is live at FamilyCircle.com and in print in the March issue. (It looks great in print. Please go pick up a copy!) In the process of talking to researchers,…

Pack Like a Geek

Posted on 2013 by Christina ~ 0 Comments

I travel often. And, unless the trip is longer than three weeks, I don’t check a bag. The airlines have lost my luggage too many times. So I have hacked my carry-on strategy till it runs without a hitch. Even though I am carrying my home in a 22″ inch hard side carry on (with a smaller bag that fits under the…

I Should Ride the Bus More

Posted on 2013 by Christina ~ 0 Comments

Nothing like this ever happens when I wait at a bus stop. I’d love a ride in that dog sled.

Two Geeks Field Test a TV

Posted on 2013 by Christina ~ 0 Comments

Warning: Hairy back alert! Matt and Jamie bring a Toshiba TV into the steam room. I’d like to see them bring a smart phone in there, frankly. I’d like to see what happens to every smart phone on the market, in fact, when you drop it in the toilet. That would be a useful thing to know. But this is…

Facebook and Love

Posted on 2013 by Christina ~ 2 Comments

Have relationships gotten more complicated in the era of Facebook? Check out this retro dating advice video created by the folks at Big Fuel. (I posted it originally for Valentine’s 2010 but it’s still just as dated as ever.) You’ll laugh. But you might also pick up a couple of pointers. I mean, what girl hasn’t wanted to start a…

It Is Time to Fix Education: Our Kids Are Too Small to Fail

Posted on 2013 by Christina ~ 1 Comments

Last night, my husband and daughter (13) enjoyed a raucous dinner conversation where she declared her love for Voltaire and jokingly attempted to work all of her recent vocabulary words — including misogyny, misanthrope, monogamy, and matriculate — into one sentence. We discussed historical popes and the French Revolution. We chatted about the life of Dickens and what motivated him…

I Long for a Robot Housekeeper

Posted on 2013 by Christina ~ 2 Comments

I like to have a clean house. But I don’t like to clean it. I seem to have no choice in the matter. I either clean it or I watch it get dirtier and dirtier. So I don some ear buds put on a good book (via the Audible app on my phone) and get to work. But I have to…

Gifts for a Geeky Guy

Posted on 2013 by Christina ~ 1 Comments

My man is a geek. So when the guys at Drivesavers – a company staffed with the sort of geek you usually only see called in on detective shows to find the clue stashed in a destroyed hard drive (because data recovery on damaged computers is their specialty) – sent me a list of gadgets they’d like to get for…

Geek Girlfriends

Say Goodbye to Google Reader

A Case for Your Tablet (Giveaway!)

A Geek for Clean

Pack Like a Geek

I Should Ride the Bus More

Two Geeks Field Test a TV

Facebook and Love

It Is Time to Fix Education: Our Kids Are Too Small to Fail

I Long for a Robot Housekeeper

Gifts for a Geeky Guy

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