The fakers and scammers seem to be out in full force right now so if you are a frequent flyer in the land of online auctions, make sure you know what you’re buying and who you’re buying it from. It…
Category: My latest rant
Sometimes I just need to rant. Be afraid, you are my captive audience.
Xtra’s help assistant not so helpful
Xtra broadband customers can now download Jody, the interactive help assistant. According to the e-mail I received from Xtra, Jody can help keep my broadband connection running smoothly and save me from having to call the helpdesk. Have you tried…
Xtra: service advice
Thank you for spending $20 million in an extreme makeover for your e-mail service. I’m sure the revamp was done with the best of intentions but, as the old saying goes, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. The new…
Is this the end of spam?
The news that Yahoo and AOL plan to charge a fee for guaranteed delivery of e-mails could be the answer to my prayers. I am pretty sure I’m not alone when I say that my inbox is at present being…
Hotting up for the big NZ political Idol show
September 17 is the political version of the NZ Idol final. Without the singing, of course (thank goodness for small mercies). As we all know, too much of anything is bad for us — as the South Korean man who…
Remembering fashion fads and mistakes
The wrong choice of apparel is the quickest way to make yourself look like a total knob or a dinosaur, or in the case of Motley Crue, both. There I was, innocently minding my own business, watching the Live 8…
Graceful aging and spandex
It started off like any other Monday — opened one eye, crawled out of bed, staggered towards the kitchen to get up close and personal with a cup of tea, got attacked by the cat, prised open the other eye,…
We all have hate lists — don’t we?
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) If you have anti-virus software on your computer you’ve probably noticed a flurry of activity during the past couple of days with new virus definition updates coming thick and fast.…
Message for a pervert…
A special note for my very own pervy reader I appear to have cultivated: If you’re going to send e-mails of that nature, it’s much more effective if the smutty bits are spelt correctly. You might find https://www.dictionary.com/ helpful. Please,…
Moving, schmoving…never again
Eight years ago I said I was never moving house again. This time I mean it. You didn’t get a column from me last week because I was too busy unpacking. In fact, by my normal deadline time I still…