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28May-3June2006 :: This Week
03June2006
watched The Family Stone; funny lite; very predictable watched Prime; light funny with some very understated humour; loved the ending […]
Dreams of a Place That Never Was
31May2006
Have had memories of last year thrust back into my mind lately… They come and go in waves; when they […]
21-27May2006 :: This Week
27May2006
watched Deceiver; simple story but some clever cinematography watched The Deal (2004); interesting but it's clearly difficult to put oil […]
Who Says Computers Aren't Intelligent?
26May2006
Received an 'Amazon.com Recommends' email the other day. I haven't been particularly impressed with Recommends in the past, not because […]
14-20May2006 :: This Week
20May2006
went to the Reelife Short Film Festival at the Dendy, Newtown; a friend's short, Brown Trash won the audience favourite […]
Looking For Work
14May2006
I've decided to write on this here: I'm looking for work. I'm currently in my final year of full time […]
Shooting Bombsites in Melbourne and Sydney
13May2006
Went to Melbourne with the family a couple of weekends ago. I took the video camera to get some footage […]
Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have A Winner (White vs Beige)
13May2006
Back in Round 4 it looked like White was coming out on top with the 17” iMac. Well the final […]
7-13May2006 :: This Week
13May2006
watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; a mistake; can now see why Alan Moore is so ashamed of the adaptations; […]
On Being Marketed Down To
11May2006
Went to a couple sessions of Adobe's Fully Loaded tour on Tuesday, the first on Video and the second on […]
30Apr-6May2006 :: This Week
06May2006
started reading Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis; Edit: actually only read the first third or so and put it from my mind; […]
Shooting Bombsites in Melbourne and Sydney
04May2006
Shot over the space of a week in Melbourne and Sydney; 30Apr-4May2006
(7 photos)
23-29April2006 :: This Week
30April2006
watched Roman Road watched Holy Man, despite having decided not to watch movies on commercial television ever again; at least […]
16-22April2006 :: This Week
22April2006
watched Mr Harvey Lights A Candle; feel-good and trying to be Mr Chips but otherwise interesting comments about religion in […]
Fou Amoureux
20April2006
Je suis amoureux, mais de qui ou de quoi, je ne sais pas. J'aime Paris, j'aime la France, j'aime le […]
9-15April2006 :: This Week
15April2006
watched Corpse Bride saw James Blunt perform at the Hordern read Sara Douglass' God's Concubine (Troy Game Book 2); great […]
Venus and Mars and some other planet
14April2006
Men and Women are different; their brains work differently Not everyone conforms to (1) Because of (1), those in (2) […]
Team B Mark II
13April2006
Saw James Blunt perform at the Hordern Pavilion last night. It was impossible for him to live up to what […]
Rehearsing for Fourty Thousand Years; On Cultural Curiosity
10April2006
Having watched the latest Australian Tourism ad I'm starting to wonder if it was banned simply because it's such an […]
2-8April2006 :: This Week
08April2006
finished reading EL Doctorow's The March; quite a good read, lots of good ideas come together towards the end; was […]
Rethinking that Convergent Gadget
04April2006
Mostly inspired by my current cash-strapped state, and the lack of any paid prospects, I've been thinking about the gadget […]
Two of Three Short Scripts
04April2006
Have just uploaded a couple short scripts to the ?film section. I wrote both last week for my 'Writing for […]
V For Vendetta
01April2006
On the surface, this film appears to be a fairly decent comic adaptation, with a smattering of action, Natalie Portman […]
26Mar-1April2006 :: This Week
01April2006
saw Adam Alexander play at The Basement; he opened with Talk of Funny Days which is still a beautiful song; […]
19-25March2006 :: This Week
25March2006
read Delia Falconer's The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers watched Scrubs, Season 2 watched Beautiful Creatures watched Bringing Out The Dead […]
Flora, Thrice
20March2006
Despite Panasonic Australia's protestations that my NV-GS400 camera does not exist, I managed to find a manual online, and in […]
Why I Do This; Some Justifications
18March2006
This thing I do, I do it for me. I write for me. I am conscious that I am putting […]
12-18March2006 :: This Week
18March2006
read 'Chance' from Alice Munro's collection of short stories Runaway; very short-film-ic watched Syriana watched Balzac and the Little Chinese […]
We've Been Underestimating Those Buildings
15March2006
On the bus on the way out of the city today I saw “the city's most envious office building”. I […]
Syriana
13March2006
From the movie's opening scene, I knew this one was gonna be good. Beautiful camera work. Not far in and […]
5-11March2006 :: This Week
11March2006
This is a replacement for the '?currently' entries. And for listing movies I saw, books I read, &c, when I […]
Style Updates
07March2006
As promised, I've made some changes to the styles on this site. There are three alternate stylesheets available: the black […]
Attempting Reconnection... Failed
06March2006
Abort, Retry, Fail?_ R After returning from the year of In-Country Studies, one hits a 7-8 day mark when reality […]
White vs Beige, Round 4
06March2006
On Switching Put the White vs Beige fight on hiatus, it having become somewhat academic as I have no money, […]
Crash, House of Flying Daggers, Little Fish
06March2006
I saw these movies a few weeks ago, when I hired about a dozen in the space of a couple […]
Débranché
25February2006
Have been feeling strangely disconnected lately. I've been back for over five weeks, but don't feel like I've settled. Doesn't […]
When Myth-Making Backfires
22February2006
Was interested to see the French government and media backpedalling from their previous fear-mongering about Bird Flu. As long as […]
Housekeeping, Syndication Politics
21February2006
Have dumped my RSS2 feed in favor of 100% Atom 1.0. Support for Atom has gotten to the point where […]
Nokia N and E Series
19February2006
I desperately need a new phone, and am trying to get a nice all-in-one gadget - music player, organiser, camera, […]
Vanishing From View
19February2006
I really don't have anything new to say about a lot of what's been happening lately around the issue of […]