Opinion

It was a sad day for me, as it was for millions I suppose when Steve Jobs passed away. However, that was some years ago now, and I think I am well over my grieving. It may be connected, but I think I am also over wantonly donating my credit card limit to Apple too. After…

What happens to your online life when you drop off the perch? With so much interlinking, auto-sharing, auto-posting, and re-tweeting, I’m really wondering if I might just live on (socially speaking) for a few years without anyone noticing that I am actually quite dead. Perhaps I can plan for this eventuality by setting up some…

So what’s new in tech? Well, nothing much these days really. Tech has come to a grinding halt on three fronts for me. The halt though, while extremely boring, is also saving me a lot of money. What’s boring is not worth buying. Apple I’ll start with Apple, who of course were everyone’s favourite company just…

A young friend, who was about to celebrate her twentieth birthday, asked me this question. “What twenty things would you tell a twenty-year-old about life?” After recovering from the shock of being asked this question and knowing that there surely isn’t a twenty-year-old living on this planet who would bother listening to me, I thought,…

Software update available. Do not touch!! How often do you have a notification for a software update? Often I guess. It’s almost a daily occurrence. But my advice, after my last week of pain, is to ignore these dastardly red flashing alerts, once and for all. Well, until there is no choice. Why? Because unlike the…

Relax, it’s only another financial crisis A quick glance at any newspaper will tell you that we are soon going to enter yet another economic or financial crisis. Yes, yet another one. As always, it will bring on a period of times are tough, things are hard, forget about a welfare card kind of financial…