Online column

A weekly tech column written for The Southland Times, a company that pays well enough to keep me in handbags and Drambuie

Election time

(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) Good morning. I don’t know what time it is out there in newspaper reader land but at the time of writing this it’s 5.41 on a rainy Wednesday morning. Not being able to sleep, I decided to see what I could find on the...

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Surfing for memories

(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) Is it your birthday today? If it is, you share it with Burt Reynolds’ former main squeeze Loni Anderson and Neil Armstrong, the original moonwalker (Michael Jackson, eat your heart out). If you want to know more about famous birthdays, then check out the...

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The evolution of language

The evolution of language

(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) The internet has had a huge impact on our day-to-day lives and now it’s starting to make an impression on our day-to-day language. Not so many years ago, the average punter (myself included) would have been baffled by talk of modems, megabytes and meta...

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