Sometimes I just need to rant. Be afraid, you are my captive audience.
I see the lovely George Baker was in court today (again) facing a whole raft of charges: attempted kidnapping, kidnapping, threatening to kill and assault with an offensive weapon in fact. Just in case the name doesn’t ring a bell, this is…
Wednesday night’s Leonard Cohen concert in Christchurch was amazing but there were a few things that peeved me relating to the arena and to Ticketek. Ticketek, if you sell people tickets to an event and the name of the venue…
I submitted a ticket with support at my old hosting company this morning to ask if they could tell me what their Time To Live was set at because my old, somewhat buggered site kept popping up when typing in my…
All righty then, here we are in our new home. I’ve signed up with the lovely people at Webbase and so far, so good. Of course, because my existing blog had a total meltdown and I STILL haven’t received any…
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) I hope you’re all fit and well after Microsoft’s big security fix on Tuesday. According to reports it was the company’s biggest-ever fix, with a whopping 16 patches addressing 49…
Just goes to show that you never know what’s around the corner. For the past eight or so years I’ve used the same hosting company with just a few minor glitches along the way. In fact I’ve recommended the company to…
Every Friday afternoon I escape the office with one of my friends for lunch. This is a bit of a novelty since I work through my lunch break every other day of the week but I figure if I actually…
Congratulations TV3, you have made the grade. Again. Yes, you suck. Like something really sucky. I still haven’t forgiven you idiots for the whole Dexter debacle (you know, when they ran Dexter for just a few episodes in a non-primetime…
This whole ministerial credit card debacle is a bit of a joke, isn’t it? I mean really, if one of us plebs had used the company credit card to live it up to the extent our elected representatives did, we’d…
I wonder why Dame Kiwi Te Kanawa has got such a bee in her operatic bonnet over reality TV? She’s had a swipe at Susan “I Dreamed a Dream” Boyle and reality TV talent shows in general during an interview…