What grinds my gears #1 - People who don't use ':' when referring to time.

When hair was big and jeans were small, a Casio digital wristwatch was your average and (above-average) teenage boy's must-have fashion item:

Along with a signed EP of Onion Skin by Boom Crash Opera, a life-sized poster of Elisabeth Shue and a videotape containing at least 4 eps of the Henderson Kids.

Those were the days.

Perhaps that is why we are faced with our present crisis situation. With the increasing popularity of quality, Swiss-engineered timepieces from the likes of Tissot, Omega, Longines and TAG Heuer, we have seen a resultant decrease in people's ability to tell time when it is to be written in digital form.

Forget the GFC. Forget global warming. We need to focus on this digital time-telling crisis!

WTF I hear you say?

Well - if its quarter to 7 at night-time (that's post merediem to time officionados), you should write down the following: 6:45pm or 18:45.

Writing down 6.45 or 18.45 is NOT acceptable.

6 point 45 or 18 point 45 what? Dollars and cents? Percent? On the Richter Scale? Score on hot or not? How many times you've slipped one in since lunch?

No, you fiend.

Use the colon. Indeed, Eddie Murphy at the start of Delirious said that the key to life is a healthy colon. I tend to agree.

Liberal colon usage - creating joy everywhere.

And if you want to be even more spot on, feel free to double-barrel colon your way through the hours, minutes and seconds.

Pour la victoire = 18:57:13.