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From Jiro to Hero

Batman is a crime-fighting comic book super hero created by Bob Kane that has captured the imagination of readers and has been a part of popular culture for over seventy years.  While the Dark Knight has a long and illustrious history in print, he also has a pretty solid legacy in film also. Tim Burton’s Batman, released in 1989, was ...

Survivor: One World Finale Survivor: One World ended up being a pretty terrible season.  It’s probably one of the bottom five in the show’s history.  The final episode didn’t really improve much and in fact, the lead up to the final Tribal Council pretty much summed up just how dreadful some of the contestants were.  Christina, the self-styled ‘underdog’, simply ...

An equal opportunities offender

Although he’s been a pretty well established author for some time, I only discovered Malcolm Gladwell for myself about a year ago, when I read What The Dog Saw, an eclectic collection of his articles from the New Yorker. Blink was an earlier book of his, published in 2005 and carries the full title Blink: The Power of Thinking Without ...

Manchester City’s incredible last gasp win on the final day of the English Premiere League means I can check off another prediction that I made at the start of the decade – that a new club would win the EPL. My remaining sporting predictions are rather less likely to occur: A man will run 100 metres in under 9.5 seconds. ...

Jen and I just returned from a long weekend away in Palm Cove, in Far North Queensland, where we attended the wedding of our friends Brett and Ange.  I first got to know Brett through work and his upbringing was one of those thats not too disimilar to people associated with TFW.  He spend time in his teenage years and ...

Nestled in Palm Cove at the Peppers Resort is Nu Nu, one of Australia’s most decorated regional restaurants.  The eatery has a casual, unassuming decor that fits in right at home with the rest of the Williams Esplanade.  The plastic deck chairs remind me of the Serasa Yacht Club that I went to as a kid.  The menu, put together ...