Entries from July 2006

Driving in Sydney is no fun. There’s the traffic. Congested roads. Road rage and impatient drivers. Yep, Sydney’s got the lot.My sweetheart the flirt and I went for a drive up to Palm beach the other week. A Sunday drive. It was good actually. Just her and me in the car. So, no-one ... Read full entry

Beware the ides of July?So yah, as I said yesterday, this was a difficult week. Professionally speaking. I’ve decided I’d like to more get back into freelance article writing. Expand a bit on what I do over at OnVoiceOver.Engaging with ideas and the people who have these ideas, is great. Ideas are fun. They may not always be new, original, or unique, but what is? Everything we do has ... Read full entry

What a demanding week this has been. I really have to start taking my own advice. So, do you think I will? Anyway:At the movies: Wah-Wah is set during the final days of British rule in Swaziland in the late 1960s. The story tracks the ups and downs of an ex-patriot family whose experiences are a metaphor of sorts of the crumbling British Empire. I was surprised to learn ... Read full entry

Working from home can be pleasurable and relaxing. There’s no boss breathing down your neck (at least literally anyway). No office politics. No drama kings or queens chucking tantrums every time you don’t follow company policy to the letter.You do need to be motivated and organised though. “To-do” lists need to be set and strictly adhered to. For me this ensures everything ... Read full entry

It’s good news for wine drinkers in Australia. It seems there is a 900 million litre wine glut that needs to be (somehow) cleared, and it’s up to us all to do something about it!In the meantime Australian wine drinkers can look forward to heavily discounted prices at the bottle shop.Enjoy. But ... Read full entry

Working late Friday night:My sweetheart the flirt loves to hang in clubs all night getting into deep house n trance beats (I love to spend all night stumbling around rooftops in Randwick…), the next day she loves to unwind to the Chillout Sessions, volume 8.“Designer Speed Dating is a fun, efficient and unbinding way to meet and check out design credentials before entering ... Read full entry

I wanted to document a drive up to Manly beach, to Sydney’s north, without taking a run-of-the-mill panorama featuring the pine trees that line the beach.Not that there is anything wrong with those sorts of panoramas. Some are quite spectacular.So, as you can see, I went really left-of-field ... Read full entry

Saturday chill out sessions:“Should we, when we read the Tintin books, treat them with the reverence we would afford to Shakespeare, Dickens, Rabelais and so on?” Perhaps not quite, but this Guardian Unlimited article makes a very good argument for the affirmative.“The internet may be contributing to a long term decline in the social networks…“ But, but, I’m a MySpace, Hi5, and Orkut, member. How ... Read full entry