Posts Tagged as ‘skype’

October 14, 2008

On Becoming Telephobic

That’s as in ‘fear of talking of the phone’, as taken from the famous BT Commercial:

Unless the date was written on it, I’d never have guessed that this was from 1991 – I woud have thought it the best part of a decade earlier.  It really shows how adverts (and corporate [...]

September 16, 2008

My New Friend – The Nigerian Scam Artist

It was at some point in the mid-Nineties, when my partner, Olda, and I were running a computer games importer in Prague that we got a letter from Nigeria.  We had never had a letter coming to us all the way from Nigeria before and so were rather curious.
Apparently, someone had gotten hold of several [...]