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It’s been a pretty hectic week.  On the weekend there was the Christmas work party at Iceworks.  It was a chance to celebrate the end of the year with my old work team. Then I had a day to recover from a rather brutal hangover before heading down to Melbourne to give a 2010 presentation to my new work colleagues.  ...

I woke up this morning to check out the groups drawn for the World Cup in South Africa next year.  I got three teams I’m rooting for: Japan, New Zealand and Australia.  Here’s a quick breakdown of how we went. I was a bit disappointed about this grouping really.  I was hoping we would get Italy so we could crush ...

So our Summer Of Cricket started this week with the Windies test series kicking off at The Gabba.  Its actually a bit of a disappointing line up this year.  The Windies are pretty shit so the series isn’t really going to be much of a contest and then after this, we get no international games in Brisbane for the whole ...

Although I’m now two weeks into a new job, I can happily report that I’m still included in the monthly wining and dining nights that my former manager and colleagues would catch up for.  We take turns picking out a new restaurant to try and make a night of it.  This time, on my suggestion, we went with Phillip Johnson’s ...

So the season of awesome video games continues.  Over the past week I’ve come home from work to find that Jen has picked up: Not to be too boring or predictable but all of these games are totally awesome and I would recommend them wholeheartedly.  I’ll do some write-ups on them as I get around to completing them.

Yesterday it was England vs Argentina, the second of three tests in the Autumn test series. Not sure how close everyone follows English Rugby but its in a bit of a rut at the moment and they really need to simply get better so they can compete against the other major teams. The Southern hemisphere teams are still superior and ...

During a recent stopover in Sydney, myself and some guys from work were feeling a hankering for Japanese food and Masuya is literally one of the first options that turn up in Google if you search ‘Japanese restaurant Sydney’. We booked and went in with no real expectations of the service or quality.  Turns out, we also really underestimated the ...

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 ...

It’s getting about that time of year, so I thought I’d put together my list. I honestly didn’t buy very much music this year, but this is the best of what I did. DISCLAIMER: These are not THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR they are just the ones I bought and liked. I’m sure the Lady Gaga and Flo-Rida albums ...

It’s been a while. I just got back from a trip back to Santa Barbara, California for Shep’s (my former band mate and best friend) wedding. It’s always bizarre going back somewhere you spent some important years of your life but this time just seemed completely foreign. We were sitting at the rehearsal dinner, sipping some nice wine, he has ...