Obscure Box

Poor Andrew Sachs. Thrust into the world news after an ill-thought out radio prank on his answer machine backfired on two BBC presenters who should have known better. The details of the prank are plastered far and wide on websites, including a comprehensive coverage on the BBC’s site with a handy Timeline. It comes complete [...]

It’s often hard to know what will get people talking when you’re considering what stories to cover but human attacks on defenceless animals always get a good response. Imagine the reaction then when news broke that an elderly flamingo had been bashed at Adelaide Zoo. The blind bird in its 70s is believed to be [...]

I’m no fan of Microsoft’s frustrating products but the latest Office software has me fuming and I haven’t even bought the thing. I’m being bombarded with people sending me documents with the .docx extension. Now I can’t open these things because I don’t use a Microsoft Office suite on my personal computing machine. At work [...]

You must be reading Rhodri Marsden’s excellent book FWD this link – A Rough Guide to staying amused online when you should be working. You’ve probably just reached page 82. Search on Google for the phrase “I’m really sorry, you were right all along”, and you’ll find that it returns a grand total of zero [...]

We’ve been friends for more than a year and I’ve been very open about my relationship. I always told Facebook I was married, right from the beginning so there was never any embarrassing misunderstandings. So why is Facebook telling me to look for singles in Australia (right)? Seems to me Facebook should have a long [...]