Phishing scams seem to be all the rage at the moment and it always pays to be wary. The most common are the e-mails purporting to be from various banks, PayPal or eBay. Usually they claim that because of upgrades you need to re-register your username and password and contain a link to the verification […]
Here phishy, phishy … Read Post »
I’m still not feeling particularly excited about the coming United States presidential election. I find American politics baffling at the best of times and the battle of the man with the endless chin versus the man with terminal foot-in-mouth disease doesn’t inspire me to gain a better understanding of the whole bun fight. The election
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Do you feel like you didn’t get value for money with your vote in the local body and health board elections? Here’s your chance to make a vote that counts, and will actually be counted. Go to Jack Daniels Live n Local, where you can vote for a Kiwi band to hit the stage at
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(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) Last week’s etiquette column seemed to strike a chord with many people so I’ve been checking out other sites for the well-intentioned and well-mannered. Etiquette Hell lives up to its name, with tales of bridezillas, rude co-workers and funeral faux pas. Categorised by wedding, everyday
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(This is the Online column written for The Southland Times) Last week, a colleague e-mailed another colleague and received a reply that included mention of her breach e-mail etiquette in not using the recipient’s name at the start of the message. Apart from the fact that using a name at the start of a message
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Etiquette Tips for Rednecks advises that if you have to vacuum the sheets, it’s time to change the bed.
The whole space tourism scenario has taken another step forward with the privately sponsored SpaceShipOne scudded off into space for the second time in a week to easily beat the previous flight-altitude record for an air-launched craft and grab a $US10 million prize to boot. Designer Burt Rutan built SpaceShipOne and now plans to built
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Mr Microsoft himself, Bill Gates, has stunned the computer world by announcing that he’s never had a computer virus. That makes two of us, Bill. The comment was made during a speech at the Computer History Museum in California, when Mr Gates announced that Microsoft planned to tackle the growing spyware problem. Microsoft bashers
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