It’s been a long time since Weezer but out anything worth listening to and chances are, this new album, coming out a scant twelve months after their last effort, probably won’t be any different.  Having said that, while the quality of the tracks themselves might not be any good, there’s no doubting that this is one of the finest album ...

Scott Pilgrim vs Hollywood's Carefully Researched Video Game References

For Jen’s birthday weekend, we invited some friends over for dinner on Saturday night.  Jen always like to cook up a storm for dinner guests but she had to change up her game a bit this weekend as two of our friends recently switched to a vegetarian diet. Jen decided to make a ratatouille and cous cous dish and she ...

When we visited Scotland, Jen and I had a chance to visit our first ever Michelin star rated restaurant Martin Wishart.  Located in a rather unassuming beige coloured building in Leith, it doesn’t look like much on the outside but it is home to some of the best food in Britain and has been recognized as such by Gordon Ramsay ...

Two weeks after the Election and we’re still sorting out this hung parliament business.  As expected, both of the major party leaders have been holding talks with the Independant candidates and offering a crapload of pork in exchange for their support to form a government.  So while the major election issues were around the National Broadband Network and population growth, ...

With all this time spent on holiday in Scotland, catching up with friends back in Brisbane and going back to work where I’ve got to prep for a week of back-to-back conferences, who has time for video games? I finally found myself with a couple of hours spare tonight to sit down and get stuck into some games that I ...

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Street fighting tournament to declare the King of Fighters

We’ve had some friends recommend that we get onto Grays Online, an Australian auction site, for a while now and this weekend Jen and I finally got on the bandwagon.  12 bottles of Hope Estate, which normally retails for $38 a bottle, ours for the princely sum of $7.42.  Soooo good. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

Now that I’ve finished off Stephen King’s Under the Dome I’m now going to head in a completely different direction for my next book.  Next up is Tim Park’s football journal A Season With Verona which details the British author’s experience of spending a season following the club Hellas Verona and its supporters. I can’t say I know much about ...