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Fairy Godmother Tycoon PC Game Review
March 20th, 2007 |Ready to hear the story of Fairy Godmother Tycoon? Once upon a time, there was a land known as Onceuponia and it had nine quirky villages. The Fairy Godmother managed potion stores in these villages, but competitors took over and almost ran her business into the ground. Fairy Godmother hired me, the hulking Viking looking gal, [...]
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Dream Day Wedding PC Game Review
February 22nd, 2007 |I’m an old married woman, but playing Dream Day Wedding had me reflecting back on my own wedding day, grateful there were no crises. Dream Day Wedding combines I Spy-style puzzles with Choose-A-Story and the match card game. Search for things the bride, Jenny, needs in the usual settings from the florist and the bakery to [...]
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Sending Books and Videos to Reviewers
January 10th, 2007 |Yesterday, I talked about bloggers receiving free stuff or posting advertisements. I left out another discussion on this topic — when publishers send books, videos and other odds and ends for review without asking. I received a book about adopting and caring for a cat. Have I ever talked about cats other than the time when [...]
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Top 10 Books for 2006
December 11th, 2006 |Here are the best books I’ve read in 2006 in no particular order. Beware that not all of these books published this year, but rather they’re books I read. Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things: I haven’t written this review yet as I just finished it. Reading Norman’s follow up to Design of [...]
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Cake Mania PC Game Review
December 4th, 2006 |Can you help this Mom-and-Pop style bakery grow and survive the world of Mega-Marts? It may not have “Tycoon” in its name, but Cake Mania runs like a Tycoon game. You’re Jill (sorry, guys, no Jack), the owner of a bakery who just graduated from culinary school. Jill’s grandparents’ bakery closed thanks to the new Mega-Mart [...]
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Summer Read: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
July 26th, 2006 |If you spend your book reading time on non-fiction like me, here’s an opportunity to read a short fiction that provides a nice summer read and an history lesson. I probably spent about two to three hours reading the book. See’s story explores the culture and lives of the people living in 19th-century rural China. The [...]
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Book Review: The May Queen
June 22nd, 2006 |Turning 30 wasn’t as I had hoped. Being the youngest of three by a gap, I was used to feeling young and always younger than everyone else. As I entered my thirties, I felt depressed whenever the ages of a football star, actor, or big shot manager appeared in an article. They were such big [...]
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Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Ed.
May 30th, 2006 |3rd edition update: The third edition took a bigger leap from the second than the second took from the first. Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd ed., comes with a greater focus on Web standards and cascading style sheets (CSS). In fact, the book opens with a chapter on Web standards, whereas it was merely [...]
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Book Review: Next to Me
April 10th, 2006 |David Jones came from humble beginnings and worked his way up to CEO of a successful British retail company. And he did so without telling anyone that he had Parkinson’s Disease for most of his tenure. Jones was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease one year after he became the CEO of Grattan, which later merged with NEXT. [...]
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Painting the Digital River
January 25th, 2006 |Painting the Digital River takes a view of art by comparing digital art and classic art. Author James Faure Walker makes many points as he gives value to both art forms, discarding neither as less legitimate than the other. Himself an artist, Walker knows that many artists are confused as to what it means to [...]
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