I’m looking great, apparently. No, really: everyone keeps telling me how good I look at the moment. It’s lovely to hear it, and I suppose I probably do look a tad healthier than I did a year ago. And even better, I’ve managed to control my normally inbuilt sarcasm and have refrained from responding to […]
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) All the hoo-hah that has erupted over the trolls invading the Southland Trader Co Facebook page is a good example of why we all should be careful about our online privacy. If you upload photos to a social network site such as Facebook, you need
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Why did the koala bear fall out of the tree? He had no arms. Why did the second koala bear fall out of the tree? He was holding onto the first koala. Why did the third koala bear fall out of the tree? He thought it was a game. Why did the girl fall off
Four-part koalatastrophe Read Post »
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Do we really need an app to encourage people to take more selfies? Well, the obvious answer is no, we don’t. Unfortunately, we’ve got one anyway. Frontback combines pictures of what a person is seeing and their reaction, using both the front and rear cameras
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(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) I reckon the Government could have saved a lot of kerfuffle with that whole spy bill drama by just setting up a Facebook account and friending all of us. While we’re all up in arms – and rightly so – over the possibility of our
Facebook click can cook your goose Read Post »
I’ve been a bad, bad blogger, not posting here for months. I apologise for abandoning you (not that it’s likely anyone’s noticed) but – for a few months at least – life got in the way. It’s been an interesting old time, with my dodgy heart actually behaving like a not-so-dodgy heart and now it’s
tap-tap-tap … Is this thing on? Read Post »
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) I enjoy a good conspiracy theory as much as the next tin-foil hat-wearing crackpot, and the internet has certainly made the sharing and perfecting of those conspiracy theories so much easier. When the news broke at the weekend that Scotland Yard was having another look
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