Geoff Palmer - Award-Winning Author -

Closing Windows

Around 400 million PCs will be made
obsolete in October. Is yours one of them? What can you do about it?

Last September, deep in the bowels of Microsoft Office 365, a small addition was made. A simple tick box with[…]

(Updated, July 2025) I’ve seen a number of comments lately that put the blame on Wellington ratepayers for the woeful[…]

The situation Imagine you take delivery of a brand new car. As you’re handed the keys the salesperson holds up[…]

Ah, your car. The one place in the world you can be yourself… Think again!

Could a llama write your next novel? How about in the style of J. K. Rowling or Lee Child? I put a free open source LLM through its paces.

The word “doomer” is just a word for someone who is paying attention.

You might have thought the biggest privacy breach in New Zealand’s history would rate a little more publicity. After all,[…]

Yesterday, I discovered that Google appeared to be tracking each page of NZ’s online 2023 census form. Tomorrow, census day,[…]

Once again, Stats NZ is providing a platform for Google to look over the shoulders of every NZer at census time.