A-League Season Eight Five months is a long time in Australian football.  The 2011/12 season of the Hyundai A-League probably won’t be remembered as one of the better seasons for the game.  Although I’m happy my team Brisbane Roar successfully defended their title, the season was beset by administrative problems.  Gold Coast United became the second team in successive seasons ...

“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.” With Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Hobbit just a few short months away, I thought it would be a good time to revisit the novel to get a refresher course on Bilbo Baggins and his adventures with the Company to retrieve a mountain of gold from the dragon Smaug. ...

Since I was a kid, I’ve always held a fascination and affinity for trains.  There are a few things I can think of that sparked this interest in me.  It would’ve come from my brother, who collected model trains, had a Top Trumps train set which we played a lot when we were little and who went on to make ...

Like many parts of the world, Australia had their own protests staged by Muslims in reaction to the online film “The Innocence of Muslims” that turned violent.  And just like a lot of other countries, we’re prone to having some pretty lazy, hyperbolic media coverage towards Muslims as a result. Therefore it was good timing to have the comedy group ...

Six months ago, I picked up a Playstation Vita, Sony’s successor to the Playstation Portable.  I blogged about it at the time, and concluded that it was a system that had great potential.  At the time, I owned all of two games (Uncharted and Rayman). Fast forward to the present and I couldn’t be happier with how things worked out ...

“They took maaah boy!!!” Sure it went for about two seasons too long and Abrams couldn’t stick the ending but it was still one hell of a ride and I still remember being absolutely mesmerized by that cracking first season.  The agonizing wait for every new episode.  The excited speculation in the office about the latest mystery.  Polar bears, man.  ...

“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy” – Obi Wan Kenobi With Mitt Romney’s campaign looking dead in the water a full six weeks away from Election Day, there are already retrospectives being run in the press about how we ended up with this weird Machiavellian squillionaire as the Republican nominee.  It bears repeating that ...

Sold out for money

It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to build something from the Lego Architecture series.  I’ve always liked the look of Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House but stock of it is hard to come by in Australia.  Fortunately, I cam across it during Myer’s 20% off sale and I also had a voucher from work which meant ...

Mitt Romney has some challenges reaching the minority vote in America.  For example, he has 0% of the black vote.  So he did a televised interview on Univision to reach out to the Hispanic community.  And apparently he wore Brown Face to help boost his appeal.