So I completed my first organised run today. In terms of distance it wasn’t huge - a fun run of 7km or 4.4 miles for the non-metric - but it was still quite an achievement for me because it’s the first time I’ve ever willingly signed up for a sports event and then done […]
I enjoy watching Donald Trump’s The Apprentice. On the one hand, I can watch and learn about marketing, project management, interviewing, profit margins and business objectives. On the other hand, there’s the usual entertainment value of watching suckers jump through hoops for a spot working for the Don, only to be told they’re “fired”. (In […]
Darren at ProBlogger has kindly shared a personal response of his to Google AdSense, who coldly broke up with him this month. Well, what happened is they decided that their signup referrals system was only going to be available to people in certain countries from now on (ie not Australia, where Darren lives, or New […]
Last night I went to see Jose Gonzalez play live. Jose, like the Swedish Chef, is from Sweden; you may recognise his music from such TV commercials as the Sony Bravia one, with the coloured balls bouncing down steep San Francisco streets. Yep, those are real balls - it’s totally worth watching the Making Of […]
I rarely watch the E! entertainment channel these days. For one thing, it’s summer and I’m outside. For another, it’s really repetitive and no way am I watching Girls of the Playboy Mansion/Sunset Tan/the reality show of someone famous for their sex tape, which really rules out about 90% of what’s on show. Sometimes I’ll […]
I went to see David Beckham last night. Not, “I went to a football game” (although there was some football). Like 90% of the people there, I was mainly celebrity-watching. For $80 a ticket (USD$65 - although someone bought my ticket).
Having Beckham in town is quite exciting. Where is he staying? Where is he eating? […]
Oh dear… more than two weeks have passed with no blog post. Sorry. On my ‘to do’ list it says Blog, so here I am.
It’s hot here, and I was going to write a post called ‘Ways to Blog on Hot Sunny Days’ but then I remembered I live on the arse end of the […]
If you were a kid growing up in the 1970s or 80s, you probably spent rainy weekends playing board games, like me. Did the games teach us valuable life and money lessons, and did they way we played them reveal our futures in some way? May-haps. Consider:
Monopoly
What: A classic board game where you choose a […]
I have just started watching a TV series called The Tudors, based on the eventful love life of King Henry VIII. It takes a few liberties with historical fact (it’s more the sexed-up Mills & Boon version), and Jonathon Rhys Myers is far too boyish to play such a heavyweight (and heavy) figure. Perhaps he […]
You may commiserate with me on this, but one of the first songs I remember hearing as a toddler was Meat Loaf’s boisterous early hit You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth. I’m not a huge fan but Meat Loaf has always held a special place in my heart, if not on my […]
