Boy’s first trial soccer match today. The team came out strong. He scored the first goal of the year, and had a couple of extra shots. It looked like this year could be different.

Then he fell over and hurt his arm. Came off. Swollen and in a lot of pain. Team completely lost its momentum and conceded 5 unanswered goals by the time we took him to the doctor.

He’s had an X-ray, and it doesn’t look like a fracture right now, but we need to wait for the full results.

Friends, it has been a wild day.

Yesterday when this news was announced I was feeling a bit down, and couldn’t bring myself to celebrate it. But I’m feeling a bit better today, and I am stoked to be a finalist for three individual awards at the 2025 IT Journo Awards. Plus, BTTR is up for the Best Independent Media award too. It’s … read more

Been a few weeks since the last board game play. Today we pulled out Wingspan, and I managed to demolish the family thanks to a collection of birds giving me extra bonus cards. Personal best score of 99.

Sitting in on my daughter’s piano lesson and I’m drowning in awe. I don’t know how she got so talented. Wasn’t me.

Went out this morning with the DJI Flip, but stuffed up the mic (100% my fault) and didn’t record audio on most of the pieces to camera. Trying to work out how to salvage it now.

Disney Plus updating its subscriber agreement with this gem:

We’re clarifying that, as we continue to increase the breadth and depth of the content we make available to you, circumstances may require that certain titles and types of content include ads, even where the subscription tier is indicated to be ‘no ads’ or ‘ad free’.

Today a courier dropped off the wrong package – I assume he mixed up my street name and another local street starting with the same letter. But I don’t know that, so I’m waiting for the courier company to sort it all out.

Fun games.

Real first world problem here, I know, but it’s still frustrating that after two years of doing BTTR (not to mention the 15 years of tech journalism before that), there are still so many PR companies not communicating with me. Makes it hard to write about those products…

I have so much tension in my back and shoulders right now. Repeatedly find myself hunching and have to consciously correct my posture.

Ended up in the Wayback Machine for the Giz AU archives today looking for something, but I wasn’t prepared for the grief seeing my old fur ball smiling on an article…

Before Christmas, I got to the final mission in Star Wars Outlaws. Instead of playing it, I decided I would explore and do some extra side missions.

Friends, I haven’t played it since. Instead I’ve been playing FC24 and WWE 2K24, and enjoying both way more than I should.

I feel guilty about it, too.

I feel very much over it all today. Had a phone call from a recruiter last week about a role. She was lovely and suggested I make a number of edits to my CV to better suit the role. 3 hours of updates later, I sent it off and received good feedback. This morning she called to say that the client … read more

This week our washing machine stopped working, two days before school went back. Turns out the circuit board was fried.

It cost $600 to repair, including call out and parts. A new, equivalent model would have cost at least double that.

It was an expense I really could have done without right now.

I am all over the place this week. It’s Friday and I haven’t done any planning for the weekly BTTR newsletter, which sends this afternoon.

What should I write about?

The kids are back to school tomorrow. Thank God.

I love my children, but they don’t make it easy to work from home when they’re just hanging around.

The other day I thought I’d try to create a single-page portfolio site to help with the job hunt/freelancing. Got version 1 up and running by leveraging a free template.

I didn’t realise I was going to have to learn React and Javascript to make any meaningful changes, though.

Played Harry Potter House Cup Competition today. Took much longer than needed because everyone was getting up and down.

But once we got into it, had some fun. The boy was grumpy at the end because he made a choice based on a misreading of a card’s symbol. But ultimately, I won. 😊😊🎲

Gorgeous day for a stroll around Sydney…

Huge game of Ark Nova with the family today. The boy won by a point after an epic final round where he played two animals that gave him the victory.

Yesterday I accidentally added “teh” to my browser’s dictionary while editing a story, and I have no idea how to fix it.