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) 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 could […]
No such thing as privacy Read Post »
(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 swell
Hooray! I’ve won $2.5 million … not Read Post »
(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 Apple,
Glitzy conferences a world away Read Post »
(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 hadn’t
When football was played with an oval ball Read Post »
(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 tribute to the late Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy series.
A massively useful thing and a hairy crisis Read Post »
(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 years ago. Since then, I’ve become one of those web-addicted geeks with a computer-screen tan
Disconnection a benediction Read Post »
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Oh Google, how could you? That the techno-good guys, with their don’t be evil policy could overstep the mark so much in snooping on our wi-fi info while collecting data for the Street View mapping system was sad news indeed (https://is.gd/cew1X). Yes, I know they reckon
Google good guys overtstep the mark but I’m still a fan Read Post »
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Do you ever get the feeling that everyone’s out to get you? Do you ever worry that “they” are watching your every move? That “they” will do whatever is necessary to find out every detail about your life? If you have, congratulations: you’re a sensible, sane
‘They’ are out to get you Read Post »
