I awoke today to my brain attacking my sense of self-worth.
It’s hard to accomplish anything under these conditions. Taking the rest of the day.
Nick Broughall.
My life: Unboxed and unscored.
Tech journalist with 20+ years behind me. Running BTTR.reviews. Writing here about everything else — music, family, food, the odd rant, and the weird stuff in between.
Every time I go to the dentist, they ask me if I drink tea or coffee. I tell them I drink coffee, they tell me my teeth are stained from drinking coffee, and then they clean it all off.
I look forward to the day they just clean it without the back and forth beforehand.
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.
I’m enjoying Ghost a month after migration
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 …
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.
Ninja Woodfire event in Bundanoon
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. …
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.
How L.A. Noire Conquered The Uncanny Valley With Aussie Technology Depth Analysis (Gizmodo Republish)
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 …
Continue reading →Red Dead Redemption Hands On: So I Want To Be A Cowboy (Gizmodo republish)
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 …
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.
Thoughts on the end of Gizmodo Australia
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 …
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.
I just published my 100th product review on BTTR. Gonna have a little party on my own tonight to celebrate.
So BTTR seems to have a problem with the Rest API today and I have no idea how to fix it. Or why it decided to bug out on me. Let’s see what the tech support guy says.
Went to the opening of the new Nepean river walk at Camden today. It was a really gorgeous day for it, and a really nice walk. Got to watch the gliders come in to land at Camden airport as well.
