(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…
Redneck etiquette
Etiquette Tips for Rednecks advises that if you have to vacuum the sheets, it’s time to change the bed.
One giant leap for space travel
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…
Clean Bill of health
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…
Quarantine over
Cough, cough. I’m back. Between whooping cough and the assortment of generally nasty lurgies doing the rounds at the moment, it seems half the office is either crook or recovering. Getting back to work this week, now that I’m officially…