Category: Online column

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

No SHOUTING, and say thank you

(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…

It’s time to come clean

(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.…

Mr Jobs, the iPeeler’s time has come

(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…

Computer fairies decide I don’t exist

(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…

No such thing as privacy

(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…

Hooray! I’ve won $2.5 million … not

(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…

Glitzy conferences a world away

(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…

A massively useful thing and a hairy crisis

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Tomorrow’s Hug a Ginga Day has sparked so much controversy that I reckon it might have overshadowed Towel Day on Tuesday. Towel Day is celebrated every May 25 as a…

Disconnection a benediction

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) I was never the early adopter of whizz-bang geek technology that some of my colleagues have been over the years. In fact, I didn’t even own a computer until just 12…