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I was saddened to hear about the recent passing of the author Jose Saramago. Saramago was a Nobel prize-winning writer who was hugely popular in his home country of Portugal where it was reported that some 20,000 people attended his funeral (!) when he was buried last week.  He had a good innings, living to the ripe old age of ...

Either the World Cup Rainbow or Paul the Octopus is going to be wrong.

It’s been a little over twelve months since The FAT Website came back from its downtime in 2008 to 2009 when our hosting expired and the site was rebuilt from the ground up with a new design.  I thought since we’ve passed the one year anniversary of our return, it would be a good time to reflect on how the ...

Platform:  iPhone Developer:  EA DICE Publisher:  Electronic Arts Thanks to a recent clearance sale of iTunes vouchers at Coles, I got around to buying my first actual game on the iPad recently, Mirrors Edge by EA. For the uninitiated, Mirrors Edge is a game in which you play a courier in a dystopian future which is ruled by a tyrant.  ...

I spent this afternoon at a most excellent microbrewery, Brews Brothers of Woollongabba, and prepared 150 litres of beer with a couple of mates. I hadn’t tried my hand at anything like this ever.  My friends are little more adventurous than I and had made beer with homebrew kits before but I think even for them this was quite a ...

Also: It definitely felt like this pair of games got the World Cup back on track.  Two absolutely cracking games full of drama with heroes and villains on both sides.  There couldn’t be a greater contrast between the two red card recipients:  Suarez who is probably a national hero now for his last gasp sacrifice which kept Uruguay in the ...

While it’s been a hectic sort of a week, one of the best things I’ve done has been finalizing dinner reservations for me and Jen for our first wedding anniversary in August.  To mark our first year as husband and wife, we’ve locked in a trip to Martin Wishart, the first restaurant in Edinburgh to get a Michelin star. Just ...

“JOHANNESBURG, June 29 (Xinhua) — FIFA President Sepp Blatter expressed his apology on Tuesday to England and Mexico for the referee errors, which helped to cause the exit of the two teams in the South Africa World Cup.” – Source “Guus Hiddink says FIFA President Sepp Blatter should resign if he refuses to introduce video technology for football as the ...

Hmm, I’ve watched up to halftime and I’m not really feeling this one.  It’s 1-0 to the Netherlands and theres pretty much a feeling of inevitability that the end result isn’t really in doubt.  I think I’ll head off to bed. Also, lol @ NY Post from a couple of days ago:

vs Well here we go.  We are less than two hours away from the latest installment of one of the best World Cup rivalries.  Normally, I’d watch on as a neutral but I’ve drawn Germany in my office sweepstakes so I’m rooting for them.  Jen is inexplicably cheering for England (?).  For Pat and Cindy, this game will pretty much ...