Opinion

Everyone likes to be liked, and be popular on Twitter. For many Twitter users this popularity is often measured by the ratio of followers to following. Simply put; if you have more people following you than you are following, you are popular. While this is not necessarily true, Twitter does encourage this belief by imposing…

You have to laugh at life My upbringing was very normal for the nineteen fifties and sixties in Australia. Boys were meant to be tough creatures who showed no signs of pain, suffering, confusion or emotion. One emotion was permitted, however. That was, being happy and contented with life’s lot. The standard was set primarily of…

Reading is a lost art, and so is comprehending. I know people don’t read because what I write is so often misunderstood, misconstrued or more often than not, ignored. All people read are headlines or titles, but rarely the text. Worse, though, is that people who only read headlines are very fast to the keyboard…

Why do we give away our privacy so freely, in exchange for cute puppy videos? As Internet users, we are quite naive and dumb. We love Facebook, but we get annoyed when we are confronted by ads. Well, welcome to the brave new world where nothing is for free, and your very private data is a…

Free is great, but it almost always comes at a cost Everyone loves a bargain, but free is rarely a great buy. In the last year or so, I have noticed that my small selection of time filling games on my iPhone are now blasting me with ads every two to three minutes. Even worse, one…

I should have added Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as characters in my book; God Has Gone Fishing. Call it a premonition, or a foretelling of impending doom, but the battle of the Oligarchs and Autarchy in my latest book keeps playing out for real now in the media every day. The battle lines in…