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Lindsey contemplates what exactly a trillion is.

Once it was acronyms that drove us nuts. Well, they still do. I'm forever stumbling over clumps of letters that mean nothing to me. Now we're also being faced with the challenge of understanding itty-bitty letters.

I'm thinking of setting up meetings with all the people who have invaded my privacy.

In a TIME magazine list of the top 10 graphic novels for last year, I found this picture of the number three book on the list, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. It's Superman, but not as we know him.

Quentin Crisp once said: "The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."

You know how it is when the friendly waitperson offers the dessert menu - and everyone hesitates? No-one wants to be first to mutter, "Oh, go on then", even if you are secretly hanging out for crème brûlée or chocolate mud cake. Or pudding. Yay, pudding!

The newspaper paragraph that slayed me lately was the one in which writer and satirist P J O'Rourke admitted to not being able to "work a computer".

This is being written just hours before the wrappers come off the plan that will amalgamate the various councils in greater Auckland into a single unit - the so-called "Super-City".

I say the following, not to aggravate, but because it is something I am a firm believer in - I support the so-called anti-smacking legislation.

Let me tell you something about myself, which will give you more understanding has to why I wrote my book 'Grandchildren, our Hopes & Dreams: A Modern & Practical Guide to Raising Grandchildren'.