Sometimes I just need to rant. Be afraid, you are my captive audience.
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 and supposedly improved service is only a month old but I’m pretty sure it’s aged […]
Xtra: service advice Read Post »
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 swamped by an increasingly bizarre array of spam. I’ve been getting offers for herbal Viagra,
Is this the end of spam? Read Post »
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 up and died after playing Starcraft online for nearly 50 shows. The same goes for
Hotting up for the big NZ political Idol show Read Post »
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 spectacular on Sunday when all of a sudden the band that time forgot appeared. Admittedly,
Remembering fashion fads and mistakes Read Post »
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, found the morning newspaper and settled down to read it. That was when it hit
Graceful aging and spandex Read Post »
(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. If you’re not already familiar with Symantec’s Security Response site, now is probably a good
We all have hate lists — don’t we? Read Post »
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, step away from the keyboard and wash your hands. And don’t do that, you’ll go
Message for a pervert… Read Post »
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 hadn’t hunted out all my computer cables. Not that it mattered because I couldn’t have
Moving, schmoving…never again Read Post »
