My man emailed me the other day with something ‘new’ he had discovered – robots with flamethrowers. He was referring to Robot Wars, a US robot competition of the late 1990s that was taken up in the UK and broadcast on BBC2 in the early 2000s. Little did he know that it was one of [...]
Even though we’re supposed to go and spend up large to stimulate the economy, I’m not going anywhere near that. I’m no longer getting paid anywhere near what I used to, so I’m doing what I should have started years ago – I’m managing my money.
To begin with I consulted a company of finance brokers. [...]
What will happen when a generation of mollycoddled, over-protected children grows up? Kiwis have a pretty can-do approach, but even our tendency to provide our kids with challenges is coming under fire. Take the story of a family who had a visit from the government family services because they allowed their 9-year-old son and his [...]
The Philippines comprises 7,107 islands in an archipelago in south east Asia, with a population of approximately 90 million people, in a land area roughly 300,000 square kilometres. This is a similar density to the UK (which has a population of around 70 million, and land area of about 240,000 square kilometres). The Philippines has [...]
Love him or hate him, he certainly made a mark. In an industry famous for strange people, he was one of the strangest. And now, at the age of 50, following a cardiac arrest, Michael Jackson has died.
One of the biggest-selling pop-stars of all time, Jackson came from a musically talented family and hit the [...]
In late 1970s London, with an IRA bombing campaign going on, in the early days of Maggie Thatcher’s political career, Cambridge graduate Geoff Travis opened a shop off Ladbrooke Grove. It was a record shop, and he called it Rough Trade.
Travis was in the right place at the right time, and he was the [...]
If you are starting up your own business, you will need to think about a phone system. This would include telephones for making and receiving calls, and lines for voice and data (ie internet).
You may choose to have a traditional line for voice calls, and a separate line for data, or you may consider using [...]
Had enough of being tied to your old phone, stuck in one room with a metre long curly cable that’s forever tying itself in knots and is really only about 10cm long and tying up your freedom? Sick of running through the house to the phone just to have it ring off when you get [...]
Should sports reps sing their national anthems?
Before the 2nd test France vs the All Blacks I noticed how the French sang their national anthem with pride and vigour. And how the All Blacks didn’t. Well, most of them didn’t.
A couple did sing with sincerity, a few were mumbling something, but the majority were closed-mouthed and [...]
Mobile TV is television delivered to your mobile phone. It is currently most popular in Asia, particularly in Korea, Japan and China. It has had false starts in the UK and Germany, being abandoned shortly after launch.
Numbers of mobile TV subscriber are expected to reach nearly half a billion in the next four years, [...]