Seek truth. Ford the rivers. Scale the mountain. Query the Wise One. Whisper into his gnarly ear, and beseech him to reveal the secret of gastronomic Nirvana.
“My child,” he would intone, “Lo.” (He begins every sentence with Lo.) “You shall find ultimate bliss in the outstretched wings of fire-kissed poultry Cooking Light .”
What ‘da?
Does he [...]

The $2-billion online travel market is the latest to be hit by cybersquatters. Vendors, essentially cybersquatters, are using brand names of popular travel portals as their domain names and also in their content to generate traffic-sometimes by even hoodwinking the consumer.
So, don’t be surprised if next time you ‘google’ the name of a travel portal [...]

Right at the tip of Hokkaido, deep in a lush tract of forest known as the Shiretoko peninsula, is a true natural wonder: the thermal waterfall of Kamuiwakka-no-taki. Translated from the local Ainu language, as Water of the Gods, it bubbles out of the volcanic earth high up in Io-zan mountain before surging past a [...]

What makes a good biking road? Well, there’s a saying among motorcyclists that driving a car is like watching a movie, whereas riding a motorbike is like being in one. And I guess it can all distil down to that: open to the elements and without a metal box around you, the feeling of [...]

ROOMBA ROBOTIC VACUUM CLEANERLike most Kiwi blokes, I usually rate vacuum cleaning right up there with root-canal surgery, but that was before I got my hands on the latest Roomba iRobot vacuum cleaner, which, believe it or not, actually makes vacuum cleaning fun.
The Roomba 530 is easy to set up and use (it even has [...]