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Tight situation in taxi drivers' inner sanctum
Kerrie Murphy THE other day, Defrag needed new hosiery. Just in case that previous sentence has caused a panic that this column has gone excessively girly and will feature random outbursts of Cosmopolitans, Mr Big or Jimmy Choos, relax. We're going somewhere relevant with this.
It's a haunted house, but has it got good broadband?
Kerrie Murphy DEFRAG doesn't know much about real estate. Actually, that's not entirely correct. Defrag knows something about real estate - namely, the wrong way to do things.
Kidnapped by a virtual reality computer
WELL, there you have it. It turns out that the boys in Defrag's third-grade class at St Monica's were right.
New ways to play with food
Kerrie Murphy THE other day, when Defrag was trying to simultaneously play FaceBreaker KO Party on the Wii and eat a fondue, it occurred to us that eating and gaming are not complementary activities.
Novel book-internet link sets scene for disaster
Kerrie Murphy OCCASIONALLY, Defrag likes to kick it old school and actually read a book. Yes, we know, we know. We may as well wash our clothes with a washboard and a mangle (because in the olden days clothes could only be considered truly clean after they'd been to the sadomasochistic Hellfire Club).
Are TV screens getting too big?
THE other day, we found ourselves thinking something quite unexpected -- no, not that we should congratulate Today Tonight on an intelligent story. Because that's not happening. Ever.
Not enough future shock for good science fiction
NOW don't panic, but Defrag probably should warn you that we are running out of future. It's like breakfast cereal. One day there's plenty of it and the next, you're wondering if you can be bothered eating the powdery crumbs at the bottom of the packet.
Rhyming bang can be a friendian slip
Kerrie Murphy MARTIN Fry, lead singer of 1980s band ABC once sang "Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah, Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom yeah". And Defrag thinks we can all learn something from that.
Movie makers lose the plot in gameland
HELLO, we are a Commodore VIC-20. OK, we're not really. Defrag is just getting sick of all these ad campaigns from Apple and Microsoft where people claim to be a Mac or a PC and we thought we'd throw something else into the mix. Plus we'd like to be able to claim that we can play Gorf from a cartridge.
Pitt-iful stargazing becomes a perilous pastime
THE other day, Defrag thought to ourselves: man, we live in a celebrity obsessed culture and it's just sad.
Evil lurks as agents are busy on SpySpace
Kerrie Murphy WELL, so far, the Large Hadron Collider has failed to bring about a universe-destroying black hole with its particle colliding antics, which we suppose is a good thing.
Joining in the social whirl
Kerrie Murphy DEFRAG has realised you can only watch so many amusing videos on YouTube before you get restless.
Microsoft hoping square will be next hip trend
Kerrie Murphy OH yeah, people. The war is back on and the plucky underdog, Microsoft, is preparing to fight back against the dominant Apple.