I think we’re all enjoying the benefits of introducing Word Press to The FAT Website.  The site looks like a million bucks and its a lot easier to use. Something else we’ve also added to TFW is Google Analytics so we can see who visits our site and how they found us.  I’ll do a monthly blog entry going over ...

Australia is currently embroiled in a political scandal that is referred to as Utegate.  Its the biggest scandal to hit the country since Flamingmongrel-gate and ShrimpsOntheBarbie-gate. I take back all the criticism I wrote about the frivolous nature of British politics.  The last couple of weeks in Australian politics have been a spectacular waste of time and  the whole thing ...

We're men, we're men in tights...

I first discovered Agatha Christie and specifically her Hercule Poirot novels when I was very young.  I don’t remember the exact age, but remember watching a televised screening of The ABC Murders, which Wikipedia tells me was part of the original series which aired in 1989-1990, so I would have been around eight or nine by the time it reached ...

So let’s recap the Iranian Elections:  The incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces a serious challenge from the slightly more moderate (although thats not saying much) Hossein Mousavi.  On election day, based on exit polling, Mousavi declares victory.  Then, one hour after an election in which there was an 80% voter turnout, State Officials announced that they had counted enough votes to ...

So I signed up to Twitter this weekend.  I’m still getting my head around how it all works.  I’ll get a hang of it over time I guess.  The spam protection thing where you have to type in the word on the screen was racier than I expected. So anyway, I’m at www.twitter.com/edotherocket.  Please follow my Twitter if you need ...

Shark versus Octopus in a battle for the ages. Well, not really.

I went to a small dinner party last night with two friends from work and their partners.  It was an enjoyable evening  and it was also the first time I had met the wives of these particular guys that I work with.  They both had rather interesting careers:  one of them was an art curator and the other was a ...

I recently finished reading a copy of John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces on a recommendation from Something Awful’s Book Barn. It tells the story of an obese and slothful middle aged man named Ignatius J. Reilly who lives with his mother in New Orleans and is forced to find work for the first time in his life when ...

I’ve alluded to it before in the last two years but now I’m seriously considering doing the unthinkable: I think I might buy a FIFA game instead of Pro Evo this year. It’s not a decision to be made lightly. But first, a history lesson:  Football is an important part of the fabric that makes up some of the friendships ...