Meat feast to celebrate the first-born’s birthday. The meat sweats are real.

Had one of those weekends where I came away realising that my kids are both really awesome humans. Sometimes I forget in amongst all the teenage angst and attitude.

I finally bit the bullet a couple of weeks ago and started creating video content for YouTube, TikTok and instagram. I don’t love it - I’m not very good I don’t think. But it’s not as terrible an experience as I thought it would be.

Finished watching His Dark Materials tonight. It’s one of my favourite books, so I had high expectations.

I loved it.

Mary Malone’s story in the last episode just pulled me apart, and then the ending was emotionally exhausting…

Dafne Keen was incredible as Lyra. After what happened with The Golden Compass, I’m so glad this show got made.

I am really keen to play Star Wars Outlaws. Regardless of the reviews, I’m pretty sure it’s exactly my style of game.

But, I only started Jedi Survivor not that long ago. It’s going to be a while before I get to Outlaws…

Had my busiest day in ages today. Highlight was definitely having an intimate meal cooked for me by Rodney Dunn, the founder of Australia’s best restaurant, the Agrarian Kitchen, to showcase a new AEG cooktop.

It was delicious.

Disney cancelled the Acolyte.

Damn.

Wasn’t a perfect show, but Manny Jacinto was incredible as The Stranger and I want to see more of him in that role.

So it has been about a month since I began migrating BTTR from Wordpress to Ghost. I’m still fixing things and tidying up errors and SEO issues I keep finding from the migration. Despite the fact it’s still not performing as well as the old site before Google penalised it, I’m feeling pretty good about it. Membership has pretty much doubled in the past month or so. It was starting at a low base, so it’s nothing to get too excited by yet, but I’m seeing people I don’t know subscribe, and that’s incredibly exciting. Continue reading →

A great (yet depressing) article from The Telegraph on how algorithms are making it harder for bands to succeed.

Asked for a quote from a tech company for an article, and the quote was “There is ample information available on the internet that outlines the benefits of (the topic I was asking about)”.

Yes, friend. But I wanted you to tell me so I could quote YOU.

That’s a swing and a miss, right there…

Did a bunch of work to finish the migration from .com.au to .reviews today, and somehow (I know exactly what it was… now) borked my email. Fixed now, but missed a few hours in there.

Got to spend a lovely night down at Bundanoon for a Ninja Woodfire event. It was pretty impressive watching a professional chef use the Ninja Woodfire grill. Cooked up some delicious steak and then we enjoyed a super tasty dinner of smoked treats. Definitely have some ideas for things to cook up when the weather warms up a little. Continue reading →

Archery is the greatest Olympic sport and you can’t change my mind.

Had a nice week away in Orange last week. Here are some pics.

In hindsight, trying to activate an eSIM on my mobile account during the CrowdStrike outages wasn’t my finest decision.

With the shuttering of Gizmodo Australia, I’m pulling a few of my favourite articles over here for safekeeping. Hopefully this won’t upset any of the Copyright Gods, as I don’t own the Copyright. But given the current owners are shuttering the publication I want to make sure this stuff isn’t lost forever. Originally Published: December 17, 2010 at 8:00 am From the moment Rockstar unveiled their trailer for upcoming detective thriller, L. Continue reading →

With the shuttering of Gizmodo Australia, I’m pulling a few of my favourite articles over here for safekeeping. Hopefully this won’t upset any of the Copyright Gods, as I don’t own the Copyright. But given the current owners are shuttering the publication I want to make sure this stuff isn’t lost forever. Originally published: April 13, 2010 at 10:45 am My eyes squinting as the sun rises over the harsh desert landscape, it’s time to pack up the campsite and mount up. Continue reading →

I want to go back and republish a handful of my Gizmodo articles here so they don’t disappear from the Internet. Discovered that some have lost my byline already, which sucks.

I wrote a thing on Linked about Pedestrian’s decision to shutter Gizmodo (and other titles). Because I don’t trust the algorithm, I’m going to post it here as well: Some memories fade with time. Others stand out, clear despite the intervening years. I remember my 28th birthday vividly, because it was the day I got the Editor’s job at Gizmodo Australia. I had reached out to Chris Janz, and we had a morning coffee to discuss whether or not I might be a good fit for the role. Continue reading →

Went for a walk and a coffee in the Botanic Gardens yesterday. Just after we saw these kangaroos, we came across a guy holding a GoPro camera. He came up to us and asked us (with a European accent of some description) if we had seen any kangaroos, and when we told him we had and pointed out where we had seen them, he excitedly exclaimed, “awesome!”

I hope he saw them, I’m still thinking about him.