Horror after horror

I think I might just be in a bad mood for the rest of the week as I try to get my head around the insensitive, selfish fuck-tards who seem to inhabit some parts of cyberspace here in New Zealand. These past few weeks has been pretty awful, with the deadly quake in Christchurch and

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Your photos are safe

You’ve probably seen the “Facebook is stealing your photos to use in ads” panic post that ‘s popping up all over the show by now but never fear, your snapshots are safe: the whole thing is a hoax. For once, Facebook isn’t living up to the low expectations of privacy you might have.

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Apple’s timing is off

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) It’s always heartening to hear that the big guns have misfired. Apple has had another whoopsie with its sexy wee iPhones, with daylight savings time in the United States causing the latest hiccup. Instead of the one-hour ”spring forward” that should have happened, the phones

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Good grammar and good times

For all my grammatically correct friends. On his 75th birthday, a man got a gift certificate from his wife. The certificate paid for a visit to a medicine man living on a nearby reservation who was rumored to have a wonderful cure for erectile dysfunction. After being persuaded, he drove to the reservation, handed his

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Do You Wanna … what?

I’m not a great fan of Glee I figure, which shouldn’t come as any great surprise since I’m probably 30 years too old to be in the show’s target audience range. So for that reason, I won’t offer any sort of critique of the TV programme in general because I have watched just two episodes since it hit

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