I’ve had to do an unusually frequent amount of travel this year for work. Between what I did in my old job, a brief 3 month stint working in marketing and attending our quarterly awards nights, I’ve probably flown to Sydney about 10 times this year. Our company has a policy to always use Virgin Blue and its starting to ...
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TFW Book Club: The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
So I ended up setting The Greatest Show On Earth aside to read the next book in Larsson’s Millenium trilogy: The Girl Who Played With Fire. All the main characters from the original book return, including the sassy heroine Lisbeth Salander and investigative journalist (and sexual beast) Mikael Blomkvist. This time, the story shifts away from the Miss Marple murder ...
Read More »I got a jawb!
So last Friday I got myself a new job. In the middle of this month I’ll be finishing up working as a Team Leader in our office and I’ll take on a new role as a Operational Manager for our company’s service centre in Queensland. Its all very new territory so it should be a pretty interesting challenge. I’m happy ...
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I'm no longer leading East London FC to the top of the English Soccer League
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Spoiler: He dies at the end. Shamon.
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Lucidity
Lucidity is an Xbox Live Arcade title where you play through the imagination of a little girl, Sofi, whose grandmother has just died. While that may sound wrist-cuttingly depressing, its actually surprisingly well handled. You have no control over Sofi. She slowly skips her way through dreamy landscapes, filled with objects and creatures that can hurt her. The player is ...
Read More »5 Second Review: The Taking Of Pelham 123
I have a love/hate relationship with director Tony Scott. His films are generally fun, action-packed 90 minute thrill rides and yet no one pushes the boundary further on the hyperactive and spasmodic MTV-style editing in their films and it drives me to the point of distraction. It definitely did with Man On Fire. I guess I must be getting used ...
Read More »Initial impressions – FIFA 10
For the first time in four years, I’ve picked up a new football game: FIFA 10. I blogged at length about this previously, around the time Edge Magazine put FIFA on its cover and heralded it as the premiere video game franchise, taking the title back from Pro Evolution Soccer/Winning Eleven. I’m looking forward to playing a season of the ...
Read More »Amazon Kindle arrived today
Our Kindles arrived in the mail today. Rediscovering reading has been one of the best things about this year. It’s become a nightly habit to put on a pot of tea, hook up the iPod docking station, set to some random Sigur Ros album and read for a good hour or so before going to bed. Being a slow reader ...
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