My house is a mess It causes me stress But not quite enough To clean up, I confess. I try, I do - I know you do too - But all...

For the past year and a half I've been working for a small and smart financial software vendor, which I love. I'd been inching my wa...

Hello, and welcome to another instalment in an ongoing occasional series I call Lazy Blog Posts. As they say, a picture is worth a thousan...

There are four kinds of people on Facebook: 1. People who post happy braggy stuff about their kids, spouses or holidays, and kind of annoy...

Last week I wrote about Minecraft online gaming , known to non-parents as pvp (player vs player) - an arcane universe inhabited by ten-year...

I thought I was a very tech savvy parent and secretly felt pretty smug about my preparedness for my kids to gradually enter the fray of onli...

I know not everyone likes Twitter, and lately I don't much like it either. It's all a bit exhausting. But there is still plenty of g...

One of the things I like to read on the internet is the message boards on IMDB . Sometimes there are very thoughtful and informative posts b...

Yay! I can't wait for this. My favourite book in the world, A Walk in the Woods , is being made into a movie , which is awesome, and...

Like everyone else, when I heard the news yesterday morning about the death of Robin Williams, I was shocked and upset. I was so shocked I e...