A weekly tech column written for The Southland Times, a company that pays well enough to keep me in handbags and Drambuie
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) The untimely demise of my trusty old Microsoft wireless mouse on Tuesday afternoon prompted a trip to town with my eftpos card to buy a new, sparkly wireless mouse to do my computer bidding. That in itself should really be cause for some excitement:...
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) The internet’s a strange beast and its users are often even stranger. Yes, I know I’m one of those users so am possibly strange, but my strangeness is well-hidden and relatively harmless to others. Most of the time. A report this week that a...
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) This whole trend for all things retro seems to be invading every aspect of day-to-day life, from fashion to music and even etiquette. Yes, etiquette: something that was popular and considered important way back in the olden days (and for all you young’uns out...
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) After my jealous wee rant/whinge last week about the overpriced-but-still-very-cool iPad I got to thinking about other useful objects some clever geek could invent to keep us wannabe geeks happy. I was only half-joking when I suggested the oven-cleaning/potato-peeling robot (what would my poor,...
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) I can almost hear the excited squeals of delight coming from homes across the land as Apple fans melt into a puddle of geeky goo over the treats they can now spend their hard-earned cash on. Last week it was the iPad, and tomorrow...
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Oh it’s been such a fraught week or so of technological trials. I headed back to the office on Monday last week after a nice little two-week holiday spent organising my son’s 21st, mixing cocktails, sampling said cocktails and generally lazing around at home...
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Hold the front page: apparently social networking is making us shallow. That’s according to studies by the Pew Research Centre and Elon University in the United States. Apparently, social networking should reduce friction between humans around the world by 2020 but our real-life relationships...
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) That whole sporting thingamajig going on over in South Africa, where they are playing that game I like to call soccer, seems to be causing all sorts of excitement. Last week was a stunner with the score-levelling goal that made 4 million Kiwi hearts...
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) There was so much buzz going on this week with the Apple Worldwide Developers’ Conference (that’s WWDC to all us cool kids) that I’m surprised I’ve even managed to focus long enough to write this. Yes, that was sarcasm kiddies. Not sarcasm aimed at...
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Back in my day, things were different. And by different, I mean better. No, dinosaurs did not roam the land when I was a young ‘un, but we did have the Goodnight Kiwi, no-one questioned the political correctness of Eskimo lollies (hell, political correctness...
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