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Presents make up for 'Special Birthday'

Roy Colbert's birthday delights. Photo by Roy Colbert.

Presents make up for 'Special Birthday'

What a knee-gobbling gaggle of birthday presents I received this year. Gosh. I have had some good years - 1997, 1972, 2002 - but this year simply took the biscuit like no other biscuit had been tooken before.

'Nashville' has right idea for the greeter good

Greetings. What howlingly unnecessary things greetings are.

1964 - when I didn't see the Beatles

Documentary-makers and pop historians have often rung me over the years asking for memories of the Beatles in Dunedin.

A dribble to remember, a tackle to forget

Football stories to thrill and inspire children. Photo by Roy Colbert.

A dribble to remember, a tackle to forget

Football is everywhere. The World Cup.

'Nashville' just a bunch of purty sounds

Nashville characters (from left) Juliette Barnes (played by Hayden Panettiere) and Rayna Jaymes ...

'Nashville' just a bunch of purty sounds

SPOILER ALERT: The following column might give away hints about what will happen in the television show Nashville.

Shame beyond compare

A prototype of a Google driverless car. Photo by Reuters/Google.

Shame beyond compare

I think it was Kylie Minogue who said no man is worthy of a place in heaven until he has successfully told a story against himself.

Little thought required about staying in bed

Bed, e-reader and stereo. Photo by Roy Colbert.

Little thought required about staying in bed

It is ironic how our guardians in life, teachers and doctors to name but two, are frequently completely at odds with each other.

Sound case for Reminder Robots

Most rational thinkers would agree I am light years, nay, decades, away from Winston's SuperGold Card.

A delicate touch of little use in cold, hard world

Soft hands.

Forgotten password? A taxing experience

As a former degree-seeking tertiary student and fervent believer in the superiority of the South, I was jubilant to read last week that the University of Otago has $1.6 billion in assets.

Ripper game, all the same

The George St Normal Rockets, down by two in their Rippa rugby game against St Bernadette's,...

Ripper game, all the same

The weekend before last, the Royals weekend, fittingly oversaw three remarkable sporting occasions.

Science still lags behind fixing ever-dripping spoons

Most rational thinkers would agree that despite the wondrous immediately recent advances in civilisation - the internet, laser surgery and Lydia Ko - there remains one unsolved conundrum that has broken the back of every scientist: the spoon that drips.

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