When we visited Scotland, Jen and I had a chance to visit our first ever Michelin star rated restaurant Martin Wishart.  Located in a rather unassuming beige coloured building in Leith, it doesn’t look like much on the outside but it is home to some of the best food in Britain and has been recognized as such by Gordon Ramsay ...

Two weeks after the Election and we’re still sorting out this hung parliament business.  As expected, both of the major party leaders have been holding talks with the Independant candidates and offering a crapload of pork in exchange for their support to form a government.  So while the major election issues were around the National Broadband Network and population growth, ...

With all this time spent on holiday in Scotland, catching up with friends back in Brisbane and going back to work where I’ve got to prep for a week of back-to-back conferences, who has time for video games? I finally found myself with a couple of hours spare tonight to sit down and get stuck into some games that I ...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQWzanM8zHk&feature=related[/youtube] Skip forward to 2 min 33 seconds for Harry.

Street fighting tournament to declare the King of Fighters

We’ve had some friends recommend that we get onto Grays Online, an Australian auction site, for a while now and this weekend Jen and I finally got on the bandwagon.  12 bottles of Hope Estate, which normally retails for $38 a bottle, ours for the princely sum of $7.42.  Soooo good. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

Now that I’ve finished off Stephen King’s Under the Dome I’m now going to head in a completely different direction for my next book.  Next up is Tim Park’s football journal A Season With Verona which details the British author’s experience of spending a season following the club Hellas Verona and its supporters. I can’t say I know much about ...

Domo arigato, Mr King.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MmCanaLQGE[/youtube] Soooo good. Episode One airs on Halloween.  Not long to go now.  🙂

83% of Australians didn’t believe Labor deserved to be in government. However, 52% said it was better than the alternative. – Galaxy Poll taken late in the campaign “In terms of running the campaign, decisions are made by a small group of people who quite frankly just operated on political cliches.” – Alannah McTiernan, recently retired Labor MP referring to ...