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Jen came down to visit me in Sydney on Friday.  She just left to catch her flight a couple of hours ago 🙁 It was great to have some company on the weekend and we took the time together to wander around and eat at some of the city’s many cafes and restaurants.  After a weekend of seafood platters, Belgian ...

MICHAEL Jackson, 50, has suffered a heart attack and died, gossip website TMZ reports. Paramedics were unable to revive him. TMZ were told: “when paramedics arrived, Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.” Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.

Here is how I imagine the conversation between Michael Bay and the studio-executive who greenlighted the ‘eagerly awaited’ sequel to the transformers movie went: Studio Exec: Michael, Transformers was a financial collosus, congratulations.. What other projects do you have in the pipeline? Bay: Well I have been thinking long and hard about this, what if we make another transformers movie? ...

I think we’re all enjoying the benefits of introducing Word Press to The FAT Website.  The site looks like a million bucks and its a lot easier to use. Something else we’ve also added to TFW is Google Analytics so we can see who visits our site and how they found us.  I’ll do a monthly blog entry going over ...

Australia is currently embroiled in a political scandal that is referred to as Utegate.  Its the biggest scandal to hit the country since Flamingmongrel-gate and ShrimpsOntheBarbie-gate. I take back all the criticism I wrote about the frivolous nature of British politics.  The last couple of weeks in Australian politics have been a spectacular waste of time and  the whole thing ...

I first discovered Agatha Christie and specifically her Hercule Poirot novels when I was very young.  I don’t remember the exact age, but remember watching a televised screening of The ABC Murders, which Wikipedia tells me was part of the original series which aired in 1989-1990, so I would have been around eight or nine by the time it reached ...

So let’s recap the Iranian Elections:  The incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces a serious challenge from the slightly more moderate (although thats not saying much) Hossein Mousavi.  On election day, based on exit polling, Mousavi declares victory.  Then, one hour after an election in which there was an 80% voter turnout, State Officials announced that they had counted enough votes to ...

So I signed up to Twitter this weekend.  I’m still getting my head around how it all works.  I’ll get a hang of it over time I guess.  The spam protection thing where you have to type in the word on the screen was racier than I expected. So anyway, I’m at www.twitter.com/edotherocket.  Please follow my Twitter if you need ...

I went to a small dinner party last night with two friends from work and their partners.  It was an enjoyable evening  and it was also the first time I had met the wives of these particular guys that I work with.  They both had rather interesting careers:  one of them was an art curator and the other was a ...

I got confirmation last week that I have been offered a contract to work here. This is one of the most famous animal welfare organisations in the city, if not the country! I am both scared and excited to work with four legged friends and leave behind the shallow world of television far behind me. I will have to wear ...