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) Another day another dollar (plus GST) and another chance to offend someone. What can I say, it’s what I do. Last week I managed to upset a reader who wasn’t…
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) My desire to have a Taser of my very own is no great secret. In fact, if you’ve read more than a couple of my columns, odds are you’re up…
Here’s the Online column from January 14 It pays to take all this technology guff with a grain of salt, doesn’t it? Between the news stories out of the United States about people relying so much on the whizz-bang GPS…
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Here we are with my first column of the new year and already I’ve found something to moan about thanks to the lovely people at Apple. (Pauses for dramatic effect and…
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) As 2009 shuffles off into the sunset, you can’t help but wonder just how the new decade we’re about to dip our toes into will ever be able to compete.…
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Oooh, it’s all happening now, isn’t it. Just the one sleep to go until Christmas Day, and summer arrived on Tuesday. That in itself came as a wee bit of…
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) I can’t believe Christmas has snuck up on me again, waving its tinselly bits at me mockingly as I wonder where the past 12 months have Have you written your…
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) While there are many things I’d like for Christmas (a Taser, a bottle of Drambuie, George Clooney’s phone number), the one thing I don’t want is a munted computer. According…
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Last week we established that I’m socially inept so this week I figured I’d have one last crack at my tattered self-esteem by checking out TweetLevel, a site that decides…
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) It’s that time of the year between blowing stuff up to commemorate the failed plot of Ye Olde Terrorist Guy Fawkes and the rush of tinsel and fake snow that…