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Jen and I recently went to Aria to try out their tasting menu.  Unfortunately it was a spur of the moment decision so I didn’t have a camera on me.  I took a few photos with my iPhone but they look pretty godawful.  So rather than posting the full seven courses in their grainy 2 megapixel dimly-lit glory, I’ll just ...

I think this is the first time I’ve written about American politics since Obama got elected two years ago.  It was a highly optimistic time back then and we were all hyped up on that, ahem, ‘hopey changey’ rhetoric after eight long years of the Bush Administration.  I’m not entirely sure what we were expecting these past two years but ...

I finished Red Dead Redemption over the weekend and have moved onto a new game to play.  It’s called Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and its a post-apocalyptic adaption of the classic Chinese literature story of Monkey. Although its not a particularly high profile game, the game has an strong pedigree behind its production.  The script and direction was handled ...

It keeps raining on the weekends in Brisbane.  I think this is the fourth weekend in a row where this has happened.  The upshot of it all is that Jen ends up reading her Sooky Stackhouse books all day and I catch up on weird arthouse films that no one else has the patience to watch with me. You can ...

While I was over in Glasgow in August this year, I caught up with Stewart Taylor.  I hadn’t seen him for going on twelve years, since we both left the International School Brunei in ’98.  It was great catching up.  It’s easy to find things to talk about when someone asks ‘what have you been up to?’ and you’ve got ...

Lisa Clarke passed away on Thursday September 30th 2010.  She was a loving mother, a caring wife, friend to many and Jen’s older sister.  She was just 40 years old. I only met Lisa for the first time in Christmas of 2007 but it feels like I’ve known her a lot longer.  We had an instant rapport.  She had such ...

I’m sure it’s going to be me and Jen doing the same thing one day but until such a time comes, I’d love to know if there is a way to filter babies out of Facebook.  What I find is that baby photos and baby-related status updates always attract the most number of comments and ‘likes’ therefore they end up ...

Ah, TV season.  Just when I was starting to become more productive with my time, a new season of TV shows have started.  I’ve actually been watching quite a range of shows at the moment.  From the latest seasons of existing shows that I know and love to pilot episodes of brand new programmes to stuff like The Wire which ...

Its quite possible that one of the most fascinating things to watch on TV over the coming weeks will be the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.  And I don’t just mean because Australia will win five million gold medals in the swimming. The Games are currently under a fair bit of media scrutiny about whether they should go ahead or not.  ...

I try very hard not to be one of those iPhone people.  You know the type that obsessively takes it out and uses it for Facebook, Twitter or text messaging in public.  I like those things and use those functions too but I know it drives me nuts if I’m talking to someone and their eyes glaze over as soon ...