How do scam someone who’s already been the victim of a 419, advanced fee fraud, Nigerian, shipping clerk or whatever-the-scam-of-the-day is? Offer to compensate them! (more…)

I’ve been feeling inadequate. I watch my family listening to their ipods while watching TV or studying and talking to their friends online and chatting to each other too – simultaneously. I just can’t do that. It’s just too darned confusing. (more…)

Back in 2006, United States Senator Ted Stevens described the Internet as a “series of tubes”. It was funny, but there are indeed some mighty long tubes that the Internet, or “eban” as my mother in law calls it (bless her), runs along. (more…)

I’m writing this via Google’s new entry into the web browser sphere – Google Chrome; an application sure to stir things up in a market that’s been dominated by Internet Explorer and Firefox for some time. (more…)

Apologies to The Hooters – great song, love 80’s music :). Panda Labs latest report on spam states that over 10 million zombie computers across the planet on any given day are spewing out spam and malware infected emails. (more…)

I’m a bit of a news hound and like to know about events as they happen, but recently I’ve been getting rather odd “breaking news”; purportedly from major news services. (more…)

Unashamed plug here for the good folks who produce Kerio auto/air notebook adapters who have provided me with an outstanding level of customer service over the years. (more…)

The number of people using search engines daily has increased from around one-third in 2002, to just under 50% this year. (more…)

It seems we’ve come full circle. Before the PC, computers were usually dumb terminals hooked into a networked mainframe. Sound familiar? (more…)

If you’re based in Australia, Southeast Asia or New Zealand and have considered self publishing, no doubt the cost made your head spin. (more…)