ruthmorton

I’m not a gamer by any stretch of the imagination, even though I do like to play on my Xbox and I have an online gaming account. I even have a gamer tag – SpaceDaisy (please don’t laugh!). But I’m not a gamer. However, I love this little web series I recently discovered called The Guild . It's about a group of gamers who are part of the same online guild. Online they band together to fulfill missions, killing enemies and collecting gold and loot. However, when circumstances create an... Read Full Story

Have a baby or toddler who likes to play on your computer? Check out BabySmash – a fee download that runs on Windows which displays letters, numbers and shapes in bright colours while keeping your little one locked out of your other applications. I love it! Read Full Story

I’ve kept meaning to update my blog, but life got in my way. I’m now the proud mamma of twin boys and life as I know it has changed forever. So much has happened over the past while in my life. It’s been a long, tough, rewarding, devastating, joyous journey through infertility, pregnancy, birth and now raising the boys who are 5 months old, but I figure that’s the subject for different, mamma-focused blog. I’ll let you know if I ever start writing about my experiences and learnings. Last... Read Full Story

I've been scratching my head the past few days. My main computer is a notebook running Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 with a 110 GB C: drive and an external 150 GB F: drive. The only thing that's installed on the C: drive is the OS and applications - all my data is on the F: drive. Despite this, my C: drive was becoming full and was giving me warnings that it had less than 2 GB of free space. Very puzzling. I ran the Disk Cleanup utility but it didn't show anything very large to delete. I... Read Full Story

So how did you spend Earth Hour? I actually didn't shut down John's server as I had threatened , as we host several websites on it and he wasn't confident it would come up properly, but we did shut off all the lights and I powered down my laptop and monitor. I thought about unplugging the fridge which would have been okay as long as the door stayed closed for the hour, but didn't in the end. I feel there was much more that we could have done, however, it was still a fun activity and got us... Read Full Story

One day, 10 hours and change until Earth Hour. Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably hear about it. It's been all over the news and media lately - at 8pm tomorrow (local time) people all over the world will turn off their lights. It started in Australia in 2007 and the event has caught the imagination of millions. It's a small thing, but tremendously powerful when done by a large group. John doesn't know this yet, but all our computers are going down tomorrow night (I hope... Read Full Story

This is what our back yard typically looks like in the winter:   This is what it looks like after this weekend's snowfall:    Where did our backyard go? Everything is covered - the bench, the planter, the A/C unit, chairs! Makes me want to put on my snow clothes and jump in it all before it melts away. Makes me very glad we live in a condo and someone else gets to do all that shovelling! Read Full Story

As my babies grow in my belly (yup, I'm 4 months preggo with twins for anyone reading this that doesn't know!), I find I'm thinking more about family things and how John and I will be as parents. I recently found this video on YouTube and it had me in tears, I was laughing so hard. So this is what it's going to be like, eh? Times 2!! Guess it's too late to back out. :)   YouTube - The Mom Song Sung to William Tell Overture with Lyrics Read Full Story

I love this! I grew up in the country up in the Ottawa valley, had a wood stove and wore plaid shirts. My dad used to shoot groundhogs in our backyard with a gun until the neighbours 2 fields over called to let him know the bullets were ricocheting over their heads while they were trying to have a BBQ! And on Saturday mornings when I used to get up to watch cartoons, I also had to watch out for the mice that used to scamper around the basement. Yup, this reminds me of my roots! Thanks, mom... Read Full Story

It was not quite a year ago when I signed up for a Facebook account and became addicted . Then, for a while, it got a bit boring. Everyone was sending me these silly little applications to install, like a garden to put flowers in and a wall to post pictures and videos to. Then came Scrabulous. After that came Bogglific. I play both regularly and enjoy them immensely.  I especially like Bogglific which I can play whenever I like against anyone else in the world who happens to be on-line, as... Read Full Story