I’m back in Brisbane after a near-four week holiday.  It’s back to work today.  The apartment also needs a to have a bit of tidying.  There’s laundry that needs doing.  *Sigh* I’ll be blogging about Scotland and Malaysia in due course.  It was a pretty sweet holiday though.  Here’s a sampler of some of the stuff we got up to.

Good news finally decided to get in touch with me… So I invited him in and made him tea. Along with several birthdays (including Edo’s and mine), July brought with it a month of interning at a publishing company here in London, who specialise in in-flight publications. The work was good, and after my month long stint I was offered to ...

It has been a long time since I last picked up a book and was instantly hooked. But after the reading the very first line of Craig Clevenger’s 2003 debut The Contorionist’s Handbook that was exactly the case. The story introduces you to John Dolan Vincent, a man born with an extra finger on his left hand. Not only does he struggle ...

Okay everyone, me and Jen are hitting the trail and heading off on our holiday for the next four weeks.  We’re doing Edinburgh, London and Kota Kinabalu in that order.  Feel free to hit me up on Facebook if you think you’ll be free to catch up anywhere amongst that.

It just wouldn’t be a complete election without a Liberal party member or supporter providing us with some dodgy race-baiting xenophobia and hardline religious bigotry for us to shake our heads at. If you recall in 2007, some Coalition supporters in the marginal seat of Lindsay thought that handing out these flyers, posing as the ALP, would be a good ...

Nolan with my homies

“This is one of the least important elections in modern Australian history” – Waleed Aly, political analyst. It’s been a thoroughly underwhelming campaign so far in the 2010 election.  As noted by Aly and other political pundits, there’s not really a lot at stake here.  We’ve seen the worst of the Global Financial Crisis, both parties have fallen over themselves ...

The other day when I decided that I wanted a new book to read, I remembered that I caught a glance at Stephen King’s novel Under The Dome at Borders and it had piqued my interest.  The story of a smalltown in America which inexplicably gets trapped underneath a magical forcefield sounded like just the right amount of gimmicky nonsense ...

I’ve just finished reading Jose Saramago’s Death At Intervals.  I don’t really know what to make of it.  It’s about the strangest thing I’ve read all year and thats including a book that has KFC’s Colonel Sanders appearing as a pimp in Japan. So in Death At Intervals, an unnamed country discovers the complete absense of death one New Years ...

Okay, so Flipboard, a free RSS reader app which came out recently is pretty freakin’ awesome.  I can easily see something like this becoming of the one most popular apps on the iPad. Its a program that can connect to your Facebook and Twitter account and convert the links, images and status updates into a magazine style format.  In essence, ...