The hot news in technology is the launch of the iPod Touch – in a 8GB and 16 GB version. Unlike the iPhone these little beauties will be avaialbale in New Zealand from September 28th. Both have: Revolutionary multi-touch interface 8.89cm widescreen color display Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) Safari, YouTube and iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store 0.8cm thin […]
First there was the ‘fat’ gene which was a perfect excuse for every fat person to blame their gene pool… Now it’s revealed that there is a ‘skinny’ gene. What will they discover next? The ‘smoking’ gene? The ‘bad-driver’ gene? The ‘I’m a real nasty ba@s%a&d’ gene? Honestly, regardless of whether this gene exists, if […]
Well, after about two months of waiting I have finally seen the entire series of Long Way Round – Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman‘s DVD series of their epic 20,000 mile motorcycle journey the wrong way round the world. I saw only a very small part of this series when it played at a ridiculous […]
There’s only one working day before the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act comes into force. I’d be really interested to know if the amount of spam in your inbox reduces dramatically on 5 September 2007. My prediction is a big fat NO! All that seems to be happening to me lately is heaps of mail informing […]
I said in a previous post that I would write about the way that www.interest.co.nz rate the financial institutions that appear on their site. I need to point out that I’m not a financial expert – I’m just pointing out what I see as some fundamental inadequacies in their rating system. I also need to […]
In an effort to rid librarians of the prim, proper, fusty, and matronly stereotype the national library conference later this month is dragging out Paula Ryan, the doyen of “what to wear” and “what not to wear”. So, I’m guessing she’ll be telling librarians to: stop wearing your hair in a bun stop wearing those […]