Obscure Box

Did someone tell people to drive slow on the roads this Friday the 13th? I’ve spent the day in the car stuck behind people doing 10khm to 20kmh below the speed limit. Now I’m all for safe driving, but please, make some progress (as my old driving instructor used to say).

You’ve got to love IT departments. Whatever industry you work in, if there’s a computer somewhere in the workplace then there will be an IT department somewhere else to make things difficult. If the computer’s working fine, updates and upgrades will be issued without delay to screw things up again. If the computer’s not working [...]

The Nine Network’s Lisa Wilkinson needs a quick science (and geography) lesson when it comes to speaking of all things space. On today’s Today show she uttered the following: “Right this moment, millions of miles away, two astronauts have donned their suits and are spacewalking outside the International Space Station.” Hear the utterance for yourself [...]

It was the moment many newsrooms were probably dreading. “I will be making no decisions tonight,” said US Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. Grief! Moments earlier she had the newsroom I was in captured, TV sets were tuned in to her live speech and journalists left their desks to go see what she had to [...]

British author Ian McEwan must have been surprised when reading an excerpt from his new – yet un-named book – to an audience in the UK, only to be told his story had already been told by someone else many years before. The Australian has the best coverage in “Writer Ian McEwan’s train tale may [...]