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After the soaring rhetoric used by Barack Obama and his team on their way to clinching his first term in office, there has always been a lingering sense of disappointment about how his first term in office played out.  It was pretty inevitable.  No amount of Will.I.Am and ‘Yes We Can’ could take away from the enormity of what Obama ...

Probably one of the best surprises of the week was getting an email from Jen at work letting me know she had bought tickets to the inaugural Penny Arcade Expo in Melbourne next year.  PAX is a huge gaming convention that had been run exclusively in the States for a number of years and this is the first ever international ...

“Barry Fairbrother did not want to go out to dinner.” The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling’s first work of adult fiction, is set in the sleepy English town of Pagford and begins with the death of local parish councillor Barry Fairbrother.  Fairbrother is a popular figure in the community and was involved in everything from being a father to a family ...

DISTILLERY Glendronach ALCOHOL 46% REGION Highlands COLOR Dark amber NOSE Dark chocolate, treacle PALATE Dark cocoa, cinnamon, berries. FINISH Pleasant, flavoursome, warm and mild. SCORE   91 out of 100 NOTES Have you heard of Glendronach?  Because I sure haven’t.  Well not until a friend of mine Mitchell gave me this sweet, sweet dram for my birthday earlier this year.  ...

MELBOURNE VICTORY 2 – ADELAIDE UNITED 1 NEWCASTLE JETS 2 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 0 – SYDNEY FC 1 WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 – BRISBANE ROAR 1 PERTH GLORY 2 – MELBOURNE HEART 0 Notes From Round Three I don’t have a lot of love for Graham Arnold or the Central Coast Mariners but even I felt bad ...

Homeland – Season Two – The Smile A friend of mine recently inquired about the show Homeland which recently returned to air after cleaning up at this season’s Emmy awards.  “Is it worth watching?”  I couldn’t give him a straight answer.  It’s a great show but its perpetually one episode away from collapsing into 24 levels of silliness.  I’m talking ...

I don’t mind telling you, it’s been a hell of a year.  Both Jen and I have survived a rather challenging twelve months in our careers and we will gladly see the back of 2012.  We’ve both had it pretty good up to now and have stayed at our respective companies for fourteen years combined.  But this year, for whatever ...

ADELAIDE UNITED 1 – WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS 0 SYDNEY FC 2 – NEWCASTLE JETS 3 BRISBANE ROAR 5 – MELBOURNE VICTORY 0 MELBOURNE HEART 1 – WELLINGTON PHOENIX 1 CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 1 – PERTH GLORY 0 The Marquee Match Up Sydney FC‘s first home game of the season against Newcastle Jets was a fixture that I think everyone in ...

Have a good weekend everyone!

Okay, Paul Ryan is totally cool in my books now.  He’s like a Saved By The Bell character come to life. Anyways, I’ll update this blog after Ryan v Biden today.