OK, firstly a correction – the band we saw the other night that bored me to tears wasn’t Queens of Noize at all; they were some DJs who were on after that band. The band we saw was called Kill City. Not that it makes one hell of a difference, cos I still thought they…

1. Go here. 2. Pass it on. 1.~How did you meet lisacasey? Sat next to her at a wedding reception in Queensland. 2.~What would you do if you had never met thornae? WOuld have had to found another way to get those 8 buckets of jelly down from Flinders Uni. 3.~What do you honestly think…

Normally I tend to pussyfoot about on this thing in order not to upset people and/or companies, but right now I'm pointing fingers. Last night I saw the shittest band I've ever seen. A bunch of us went to Barfly last night (after a pretty groovy meal and some choice Belgian beers at Belgo) to…

Hmm… Explained the problem with my work PC to the “Help”desk dude, and he shook his head and said it wasn't the PC – it must be the software I'd installed on it, and set to work re-imaging the hard drive. I suggested it could be dodgy RAM, and he shook his head and patiently…

This just HAD to be commemorated on the web, I'm afraid. My antipodean compatriot and gig buddy Mr Paul Bird today was sporting the most impressive of moustaches, as was proper for a work cricket match. Sadly, the magnificence of the effort was lost on many of those present as “80's Australian fast bowlers” isn't…

Grr. Crap day. Lost half a day chasing silly code problems around in circles, largely because our database debugging tools don't play nice. Then PC at work melted down (stopped recognising hard drive). Waited an hour and a half for helpdesk guys to get me a working one, then an hour later (after I'd installed…

Just got back from my first ever yoga class. I'd just like to say that all misconceptions I had that I was getting any more flexible have now been thoroughly scattered to the four winds.

Have had a few comments from people about my life sounding pretty exciting and jampacked, and while I admit that I am having one merry hell of a good time, it's not necessarily all a continuous bundle of joy. Consider my Wednesday night, if you will: Since I was about 15 I've been using a…

There's a certain category of activity which can be described as “It seemed like a perfectly good idea at the time”. Wow, what a rush. A very bizarre way to behave, but a totally exhilarating experience!! I am of course talking about the much discussed & publicised abseil down Guy's Hospital Tower to raise money…

Before I launch into the description of the 450 foot abseil, I think it appropriate to quickly run over some of the highlights of the Great British Beer Festival trip from the other night. As most of my old work colleagues are a bunch of soft units & pikers, it was left to Lord Science…