So last Friday I got myself a new job. In the middle of this month I’ll be finishing up working as a Team Leader in our office and I’ll take on a new role as a Operational Manager for our company’s service centre in Queensland.  Its all very new territory so it should be a pretty interesting challenge.  I’m happy ...

I'm no longer leading East London FC to the top of the English Soccer League

Spoiler: He dies at the end. Shamon.

Lucidity is an Xbox Live Arcade title where you play through the imagination of a little girl, Sofi, whose grandmother has just died.  While that may sound wrist-cuttingly depressing, its actually surprisingly well handled. You have no control over Sofi.  She slowly skips her way through dreamy landscapes, filled with objects and creatures that can hurt her.  The player is ...

I have a love/hate relationship with director Tony Scott.  His films are generally fun, action-packed 90 minute thrill rides and yet no one pushes the boundary further on the hyperactive and spasmodic MTV-style editing in their films and it drives me to the point of distraction.  It definitely did with Man On Fire. I guess I must be getting used ...

For the first time in four years, I’ve picked up a new football game: FIFA 10. I blogged at length about this previously, around the time Edge Magazine put FIFA on its cover and heralded it as the premiere video game franchise, taking the title back from Pro Evolution Soccer/Winning Eleven. I’m looking forward to playing a season of the ...

Our Kindles arrived in the mail today. Rediscovering reading has been one of the best things about this year.  It’s become a nightly habit to put on a pot of tea, hook up the iPod docking station, set to some random Sigur Ros album and read for a good hour or so before going to bed.  Being a slow reader ...

Stieg Larsson was a first time author who had worked previously as a journalist who was commited to fighting the rise of Nazism in Sweden.  He wrote a trilogy of books in his spare time, handed in his manuscripts to a publisher and then died.  The books went onto to become bestsellers and the inner sleeve of The Girl With ...

I’ve started playing through Uncharted 2 and am up to the seventh chapter so far.  A few discussion points came to mind while playing the game that I thought I’d write down in no particular order. Uncharted 2: Among Ladders There sure are a lot of ladders in this game across a range of varying environments.  The same unfolding ladder ...