I just got a text from a number not listed in my phone and a number I don’t recognise as belonging to anyone I know. I’m guessing from the message that it’s a wrong number. The text says ‘send grandma a gift’. Now my grandma has been deceased for the last 30 […]

It’s incredible the different value that’s available when shopping around for conference call rates. This modern technological age has brought about a huge change in the way we communicate with each other. It’s also brought about competition which works in the favour of the consumer. Times might be tough but I feel […]

I went for a coffee this morning and saw another customer get rather excited after reading an advertisement about a special offer on english riding boots. She got very vocal and started whooping and yelling. At first I thought she had spilled her coffee and scalded herself. Then I wondered if she […]

I’m always intrigued by how a barcode scanner works. This little series of lines, thick and thin, together with a random selection of numbers, you just ‘scan’ an item on this machine and then some how it magically brings up a price. And somehow it knows how many more of this item is in the […]

There’s a new store after opening up next door to our usual coffee haunt. It’s a bakery cum deli store and it has the most wonderful food for sale. But it was their Epson TM-T88V machine that caught my eye. How much of a nerd am I that a piece of technology […]