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Telemarketers, Charity Muggers and the Fall of Polite Society

March 5, 2013 in Health, Home, Lifestyle, Money, Work

I am on the no call list which means these days if I get a telemarketing call it is either from a charity or a scam. I love telling some criminal phone call worker that I have an Apple when he tells me he got a distress call from my windows computer. But the fact that most telemarketers these days are criminals is not why I hate them, I hate them for what they were before that, and how they made me, and I am sure countless others, ruder. First, they invade the sanctity of your home. I am sitting [...]

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Teenagers and a right to privacy

September 19, 2012 in Children, Entertainment, Fathers, Health, Mental Health, Mothers, Parenting, Society, Technology

Where does parental responsibility end and a teenager’s right to privacy begin? There’s been a lot of talk over the last few years about a parent’s responsibility to monitor their child’s social media use. And fair enough, the Internet is a dangerous place and anything you post on there will be around forever. But I’ve been wondering at what point does your child gain the right to a bit of privacy? I’m sure you, like me, had a diary when you were growing up. Or if it wasn’t a diary, it was a book with a torch under the bedcovers. [...]

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Facebook or Twitter: Which One Wins?

August 3, 2012 in Friendship, People, Relationships, Society, Technology

While pretending to be an expert on swimming at the Olympics at 5.00am on Sunday morning and live tweeting it, I realised something. I’ve had a Facebook account for 5 years.  This is a long time for me to commit to something. Maybe commit isn’t the right word, but I tend to get bored easily. Twitter, I’ve had for a much shorter period, about 18 months. I also realised that I barely use Facebook at all, and actually spend more time being honest about my life with my friends on Twitter whom I don’t know in real life, and deliberately [...]

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Rise Of The Machines (Well The Cell Phone)

April 26, 2012 in Entertainment, People, Society, Technology

Today’s guest post by M Gray: Can you tell me where your nearest payphone is? I have not seen one for ages, in fact, it was only by chance I even thought about payphones. I was talking with my friend Rupert, and conversation turned to the phones we each had on the table in front of us. I mentioned I was thinking of getting a Dual sim phone, quite common overseas where people need to cross borders, such as in Macau to Hong Kong, and want to use a different sim card for each place and connection fee. Last month [...]

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