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 ...

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:

Can lead to tears and seperation anxiety

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 ...

I think I’m still recovering from how insanely boring that match last night was. I fell asleep three times.  It felt like it went for an eternity.  It’s also the second matchday in a row where there has been some free-scoring exciting encounters and I managed to pick the one game to watch that was a scoreless draw  🙁 Screw ...

I waited four long years for this. Italy: Winless, eliminated at the Group Stage and cheated out of a goal in the final game.  It was so sweet.