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Monday, August 31st, 2009Forgive me reader, for I have sinned. It’s been some time since I last posted to this site.
I haven’t stopped writing, but instead have been trying to ’seed’ my new site with content. There’s only so many words in my head at any one time! Anyway, it’s now ready to be revealed to the world.
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More provocative images …
Sunday, July 6th, 2008[There is] no evidence that [if] eating beef is the community standard [it] will persuade a vegetarian to approve of it.
Socially acceptable bullying?
Sunday, June 1st, 2008OK, let’s start by getting one thing out of the way: I’m watching Big Brother again this year. I didn’t watch it last year and only glanced at it the year before. Each year it got more and more tawdry in the hope for ratings gold in catching two twenty-somethings in a drunken tryst. But [...]
In language you’ll understand…
Saturday, April 12th, 2008From the I-hate-subeditors department
I read a headline on the ABC today: “Study paves way for 500,000-song MP3 player“. It caught my eye: was this some amazing new technology that was only good for storing compressed music files?
No, they’re just dumbing-down a technology article so that ‘the masses’ understand it.
What’s worse is that the technology in [...]
The pointlessness of Earth Hour
Sunday, March 30th, 2008You’ve probably heard of Earth Hour, it started in Sydney last year and has spread around the globe this year. The idea is this: turn off all your lights for an hour.
The pointlessness comes in the confusion over why this is a good idea.
Turning your lights off for 1 hour will save approximately zero energy. [...]
Slidecast of the day!
Sunday, October 28th, 2007The question comes up over on Jaiku every week or so: How do you get a feed that only contains your Jaikus and doesn’t contain external feeds? I keep answering, “Use Yahoo! Pipes.” However that was just theory. Pipes is designed to manipulate, aggregate and filter feeds, but I’d never used it.
So when it was [...]
About my Dad
Thursday, September 20th, 2007Many of you will already know this, and will know more than I’m able to write about just yet …
Right about the time I last updated this site, my dad was diagnosed with leukemia. The doctors tried a course of chemotherapy, but it didn’t do anywhere near as much as they’d hoped. So they suggested [...]
We’re having a boy!
Thursday, September 20th, 2007It’s been so long since I wrote anything here that there’s a whole pile to say. First and most important of all is that Fatima is pregnant! We have our first child, a boy, due next February 15th.
The past few months have been an excitement of ultrasounds, doctors, obstetricians and planning. The 3D image to [...]
It’s a whole new website!
Thursday, September 20th, 2007So my old website was getting a bit tired. Well, tiring really. It had accessibility problems for search engines, screen readers, old browsers and Internet Explorer. Therefore, any time I had was spent trying to sort out technical issues rather than writing, which means I haven’t written anything useful in well over year.
I first [...]
Our DVD Collection
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006Guess who’s coming to dinner
Van Wilder, Party Liaison
Serenity
Notting Hill
Muppet Show (Season 1)
The Crush
Napoleon Dynamite
Primal Fear
Bend it Like Beckham
Saw
Saw II
The Machinist
The Truman Show
Secretary
Sneakers
It’s a Wonderful Life
Spirited Away
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Beverley Hills Cop
The Village
Amelie
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Mean Girls
Billy Elliot
Empires: The Roman Empire
The Transporter
The Wedding Singer
Three Colors: White
Memories (Katsuhiro Otomo)
The Shawshank Redemption
Love [...]