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Housecleaning

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Going through some old domains I haven’t found a use for yet, and I’ve decided to sell the following:
http://wickid.com
http://feelingshiny.com
http://ninjatek.com
Anyone interested? I’ll link to the auction site soon.

More Money Spent On Games Than Cinema in Australia

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Also the average age of a gamer is 28 years old, with 41% female, and 8% seniors.
I wonder when the government will start giving the same tax breaks to Game developers as the Film industry. Probably never, as games aren’t “Culture” according to the federal fuddy-duddies.
Here are the figures from the Sydney Morning Herald:

Box Office [...]

It’s like I can see the future!

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Ken Kutaragi, the “father” of the PlayStation3, commits corporate seppuku. As predicted, no consumers want Pu-Ray, Wii is teh ownage, and those folks at Redmond are continuing to not screw up.
“Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.”

Internal Martial Arts : Courtesy of the Beeb and Youtube.

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a BBC documentary on the subject must be worth billions.
This was filmed in 1983, and features one of the great masters of the age, Hung I Hsiang. Due to YouTube’s restrictions, its broken into four 10 minute parts (search YouTube for the rest).

I don’t know much about parenting, but …

Friday, April 13th, 2007

I’m pretty sure that an incorrect response to a wailing child in the middle of Broadway Target is:
Will you please stop crying, I’m sick of you. This was supposed to be a nice day out and you’ve ruined it.
This was calmly delivered from a well-dressed Mother to an 5-6 year old boy. I tell ya, [...]

Talk the talk

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

The other weekend lil’ Freya Lily figured out another way to make Mum and Dad lavish her with cuddles and attention:
Hello, Freya!

Blogs are so uncool now.

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

I’m too old to understand the appeal of myspace however, so we’re stuck in “old” media for now.
Quick summary of news:
-  I finally renewed my flickr.com subscription, so theres about 3 months worth of photos to go up.
- Didn’t get a Wii, but got one of these: http://www.apple.com/imac/
- Started work at: http://bigworldtech.com

Man of Leisure

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Many of you dear readers know by now - I’m heading for greener pastures at bigworldtech.com.
However, in a stroke of good fortune my old employer has decided to cut short my notice period, with a payment in lieu. While this was quite sudden and somewhat unexpected, it does mean I’ve got paid free time [...]

More Photos

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

You knows where to gets them: http://freyalily.com

I play games all day at work - Full Trailer

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Here’s the result:
http://rockstargames.com/lanoire/
Noir is cool. By the way, cities are a feminine noun in french, hence the ‘e’.