Since Christmas for me is one big roller-coaster ride that starts on Christmas Eve and doesn’t stop until you’re throwing-up a little in your own mouth from all the family get-together’s, work do’s and drinking copious amounts of alcohol in-between just to make the whole experience bearable… I thought it would be soft to let [...]
It’s 2:30pm on a Saturday afternoon – I’ve only been awake for a few hours, just had a shower, ate a couple of slices of left-over pizza, checked my email, cranked some old-school Leftfield, George is asleep at my feet and now it’s time for a beer and a blog post. This is the first [...]
People often ask “what makes you a geek, Pete?” and it’s posts like this that provide the answer… Today marks a very special moment in history, because today (on the 7th day of August, 2009) at exactly 12:34 and 56 seconds, the full time/date will read: 12:34.56 7/8/9 or strip the punctuation and you’ve got [...]
So, in that last post I said I wanted to start doing stuff… and well, it’s been fairly busy since making that decision. So a few weekends ago my mate Cameron had a Guitar Hero World Tour party… and it rocked… as I did, like the bastard love-child of Van Halen, Freddie Mercury and Hendrix… [...]
It’s been a very interesting couple of weeks. A couple of weeks where I’ve taken stock of a few things and decided that, like Oliver Twist, I want some more. More what I hear you ask? How about a bit of everything. How vague does that sound? And that’s kind-of how I feel at the [...]
I meant to post these last week, but didn’t get around to it… so here are a bunch of things that distratcted me from work over the last 7 days: Pringles won an award for this little banner ad and I can see why… it doesn’t matter how much you click on it, you won’t [...]
Wow, I just re-read that title and it sounds jam-packed with goodness, so I thought I should add this disclaimer before you read the rest of my post: I do not guarantee, or even make any claim that the following text will be as interesting or informative as the title… there is however a good [...]
I can’t believe another week has just disappeared and I barely noticed it. Ok, that’s a small lie – I had a small freak-out earlier in the week over some work stuff (nothing amazingly critical, but I like to keep a calm and level head about most things and due to a few challenges I [...]
This weekend Kristy is helping-out at a local dancing eisteddfod so I’m taking this opportunity to chill-out, not think about work and basically vegetate for a couple of days. Being the geek that I am, part of this whole ‘vegetation’ process involves dicking around on the internet and in doing so, I’ve made some more [...]
I realised that a small milestone had passed about a month ago that I completely overlooked – I’ve now been a home owner for one full year. Within that time interest rates have increased at record-breaking speeds and then dropped just as quickly, house and land prices have followed suit. Completely unrelated to the local [...]