Author Archives: Kelly Boudreau

Last night, as we watched the Montreal Canadiens win the game in a shoot out, my daughter eagerly checked the teams stats online between commercials. It is great to see her so enthusiastic about hockey. I grew up watching it with my dad, and although my partner has no interest in hockey, it feels niceContinue reading “Fan vs Puck Bunny….why?”

When I look at my calendar, I cannot believe that it is already November. It seems like a month that has been in the distant future holding the end point of many plans. We have been planning Trials & Tribulations since February. So much has gone into the planning, but now it comes down toContinue reading “Down to the Wire”

We are innocent – or so the caption reads.Thank you Kathleen for bringing this back for me – priceless =)

Another autumn is drizzling its way by. The sky is dark when we wake up in the morning, and lately, it is getting dark by the time we get home. It is not that my workdays have gotten any longer, but the days are getting shorter. With daylight savings time coming up next week (theContinue reading “Milestones, Deadlines and Moving On”

Last year, I had a conversation with Mike about the role of the avatar, identity and ownership in mmog’s. One suggestion that he had at the time, or question – was why we could not have an avatar that could be playable across games (and I think at that time we were talking platforms asContinue reading “The future of my research: Gaming with Mii, myself and I”

Last semester, I wrote a paper that focused on the historical roots of blogging which i traced back to the Greek idea of Huppomenata – thank you Foucault (hopefully it will get published sometime in the future). The essential point is that there are two sides of the blogging coin. For many young people, itContinue reading “More on the private use of public space…”

WOXY.com is back online – I will do my best to push the station to all my friends who appreciate good music. To give props to those who made it possible for WOXY to be back online, please visit lala.com – a music exchange website, whose owner – dubbed “white knight” heard of WOXY afterContinue reading “And they’re back!”

I have been sitting here, paralyzed for several hours – days actually; maybe even weeks. I wake up at 4am thinking I need to work, and turn the computer on to realize that I just don’t know where to start. Which is a silly thought since I have about 12 or so pages written. IContinue reading “Working Through the Words”

*Mark October 10th on your calendar! For those of you who read this space and who know me, you know that woxy.com has been the king of my audio experience. Of all the radio stations I have listened to over the years, WOXY has been the most inspirational station of all (and that’s saying alotContinue reading “Giddy as a Schoolgirl”

It has been getting harder and harder to filter spam from regular comments these days. As Torill Mortensen blogged recently, the slightly off flattery, or the almost on topic comments make it hard to tell since spam software is getting ‘smarter’ and smarter. So much so, that there are even spam blogs – or “splogs”Continue reading “Smart Spam”