Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Please, EA, please stop spamming my email account! Yes, I know that I signed up to receive updates about Spore. Amazingly, I did that on Friday the 20th of May 2005. Was it really that long ago? It took almost three years for you to send me the first email about Spore. Since then, I’ve [...]
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
I haven’t posted for a while. There’s some reasons for that. Some might call them “excuses”. I was consumed by the FAQoverflow project. It launched five days ago, and I’m resting, preparing myself for the next project. It’s school holidays, so we’re doing extra things as a family. GeekSalt have just launched the website for [...]
Thursday, September 2, 2010
My daughter Eliza, who is four-and-a-bit, is starting to help around the house. I’m proud that she, without being asked, removes the depleted toilet paper roll from the holder and fits on a fresh replacement before either throwing the old cardboard tube in the bin or, more likely, using it as a didgeridoo or decorating [...]
OK, I promise, last of these historic posts! The title was inspired by Andrew Braybook’s game diary in ZZAP!64 magazine, which you should immediately read. I wrote this 13 years ago, when I was young and stoopid… Football I went to a football game the other day with a few friends. One of them commented [...]
Thursday, August 12, 2010
My 4 year-old daughter loves playing “Plants vs Zombies”. So much so that she used watercolour paints to dress up as a zombie, frightening her parents when they arrived home from work. We use the game as a reward for being good, and a five-minute session sometimes replaces storytime before bed. It’s amazing to me [...]
Yes, yet another re-post of something I wrote over a decade ago. The Wall A Documentary by Jason Hutchens Title shot, ‘The Wall’. Establishing shot (outdoors, in a park somewhere or maybe near the city with views of the skyline). Pan to reveal Jas with a microphone, walking along slowly in a vaguely 60 minutes [...]
For dinner tonight: 15 fresh clams, 15 fresh tiger prawns and a 750g silver perch, stuffed with spring onions and coriander. All cooked on a disposable charcoal barbeque and eaten with Thai “seafood sauce”, a delicious combination of green chilli, coriander, garlic and palm sugar. Smelled like Bangkok in our tiny back courtyard. Total cost: [...]
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Over time our place slowly becomes more and more cluttered. Tonight I had a bit of time to myself, and I went on a packing-up spree; just simple things like sorting through piles of papers, binning what we don’t need, returning books to the bookshelf, putting away toys and clothes and whatnot. And what a [...]
This morning, after breakfasting on crepes with butter and golden syrup, we decided we needed some fresh air, so drove out Guildford way and walked along the swan. Dolphins, pelicans and dogs in the water, and lots of families puttering by in their boats. Decided we’d love to have a small boat to be able [...]
Woke early and drove down to the Westerm Farmers Markets, within the FERN Community Garden, next to Fremantle Golf Course, precisely where a Putt-Putt course that I remember from my childhood used to be. Breakfasted on a bacon, egg and spinach roll, which was spectacular, with smokey bacon, tasty eggs and freshly baked bread. Came [...]