Technology can be a wonderful thing, but it can also get you into a bit of trouble if you literally let it do everything for you. For example, it would be best not to rely on that GPS navigator that often leads your car down a one-way street, the wrong way, before advising you take a right off the nearest pier.

Spell-checkers too can be a veritable minefield for the time-deprived hack. Sneak is often falling foul of Microsoft's constant and pedantic urge to correct all his words into the incorrect (aka the American) spelling. And just recently, the very same tool advised him to change the term "ruggedised" to "buggerised". A buggerised laptop? One can only imagine what that looks like.

18 Apr 2008