I like to blog about life in Australia.  It’s got plenty of charming idiosynchracies, colourful characters in the public eye and very brown geographical features.  I like blogging about Brunei and my memories of growing up there.  I don’t blog very often about Britain.  I really should though.  I have family there, many of the TFW bloggers call it their ...

After the inevitable admin errors my FATblog permit has been granted and I am ready to blog away til my fingers fall off, or my boss catches me.. probably the latter. That’s correct my last sentence remarked on the my current paymaster, and due to having one of those it is a fair assumption to make that I have found ...

A review of the long-delayed reboot of the Star Trek franchise from JJ Abrams

I flew back to Brisbane for the Queens Birthday long weekend.  Not only was it a chance to spend some time with Jen, we were both also invited to a trip to northern New South Wales with some friends for a camping trip.  Jen hadn’t gone camping for about six years and I flat out could not remember the last ...

Right. It’s been so long since I’ve done this that I can already feel the rust cramping up my blogging fingers. Enough has happened in the past few years of my life to make a different person out of anyone, but strangely enough it’s only looking back on it now that I can see just how much has happened. A ...

When I was six years old, my brother Stu got a Commodore 64 for his birthday.  We used to load games on a cassette tape that could take up to 999 seconds to load. Then, when it finished loading (if it didn’t crash) we were treated to this: I was enthralled and it started a life long love of video ...

Just over a year and bit ago at the end of 2007, we planned a whirlwind trip to Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand and Hong Kong.A couple of those destinations was to meet up with friends and family. I had never been to Cambodia before and it the part of the trip I was most looking forward to. I wasn’t disapointed, it ...

I’m still in the process of uploading the old archives onto the site.  I do a little bit every night.  I’m probably only a third of the way there.  While its a bit of an effort, its been highly entertaining reading the old entries from everyone.  I’m surprised how different we seem even five years ago, let alone the original ...

As I have nothing better to do, I’ll be live-blogging the FA Cup final. A bit of history:  Staying up late in New Zealand to watch the 1991 FA Cup Final between Spurs and Forrest was what made me become a fan of football in the first place.  Other than the Westham/Liverpool final which was exciting but was still completely ...

Seriously, i don’t know why i didn’t suggest we just use wordpress before. it’s awesome. and we have it for our back end on stuffmag.ae as it works like a treat. colour me slow i guess. since i last blogged stuff has happened. lots i imagine, however you all know i have a sieve-like memory so it’s all a bit ...