I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas.  We had a pretty sweet day in Brisbane.  It was mostly a family affair and Jen cooked up a storm.  We all ate far too much food and had plenty to drink.  Its been a pretty relaxing way to close out a hectic year where we got married, I got made redundant then ...

I’ve said before that this current generation of gaming has been my favourite for the sheer range of different games that are now on offer across all the different platforms.  2009 didn’t disappoint with its range of quality titles, which if anything, were up in quantity from the year before.  And would you believe 2010 already promises even more amazing ...

To all the FAT Website bloggers and readers, Silly season is almost over!  All the gifts are wrapped under the tree, the Christmas lights are on, Mariah Carey’s Christmas album is on the iPod docking station and the eggnogg is nogging.  Its time to put your feet up and enjoy Christmas Day with your family and loved ones. I hope ...

Its only when looking back and trying to narrow down a shortlist to ten films did I realise that 2009 has been a pretty awesome year at the cinema.  There have been plenty of films that I enjoyed and many more supposedly great ones that I have yet to get around to watching. So I’ll kick things off with an ...

I have to say, I’m a bit mystified by the 750,000-strong Facebook group encouraging people to buy Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name so it can be the UK Christmas #1 single.  The page encourages people to do so to ‘prevent another X-Factor artist from being #1 for Christmas’. Maybe I’m over-thinking it but I seriously don’t get ...

I’ve been clearing out the backlog of video games from this year’s fourth quarter.  I’ve recently finished New Super Mario Bros Wii, DJ Hero and had a couple of playthroughs of the latest Beatles Rockband DLC (Rubber Soul, baby).  We’ve been spoilt with the number of quality games this year however and there was still another couple of games on ...

After getting home from work on Tuesday I was browsing a video game messageboard thread about French Laundry, looking at some high res photos of their nine course degustation.  It was around this time that Jen got home, looked over my shoulder and decided she felt like going out to dinner.  I called around and managed to get an impromptu ...

It’s been a pretty hectic week.  On the weekend there was the Christmas work party at Iceworks.  It was a chance to celebrate the end of the year with my old work team. Then I had a day to recover from a rather brutal hangover before heading down to Melbourne to give a 2010 presentation to my new work colleagues.  ...

I woke up this morning to check out the groups drawn for the World Cup in South Africa next year.  I got three teams I’m rooting for: Japan, New Zealand and Australia.  Here’s a quick breakdown of how we went. I was a bit disappointed about this grouping really.  I was hoping we would get Italy so we could crush ...