It’s the festive season which can mean only one thing: receiving gifts of Cadbury’s Roses chocolates. Why Cadbury’s Roses? What have these remarkably unremarkable chocolates done that made them such a popular gift item? There’s a 1996 Australian romantic comedy called “Dating the Enemy” in which a man and a woman mysteriously switch minds and [...]
I left my old job as a producer on a portal and when people find out that I’m only semi-employed at the moment they keep telling me that someone as skilled as I am should have no trouble finding work doing web design. People think I’m a web designer. Sometimes it’s people I’ve only just [...]
Just the other day I was browsing through the home appliances section of a department store. Having done all my Christmas shopping I was free to wander and ogle all the things that I do not need. Amongst the muffins makers, wet ‘n dry vacuum cleaners and cordless toasters was something that caught my eye. [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve updated this, but since then I’ve gone from being unemployed to semi-employed, or rather, I get to say I’m freelancing. As a result I have to do things and don’t have as much time to spend dicking around doing nothing. Also, my digital camera and/or my computer has gone [...]
I don’t have a lot of personal information on my web site. I’ve never felt the need for a bio page about me. There are certain pages on my site that have various bits of information about me, but nowhere is there a page with handy facts about moi. I like it like that. It [...]
I went on holiday to New Caledonia and I took a notebook with me so I could note down all sorts of amusing anecdotes, but here I am looking at the notebook with “the sexual politics of airline flight” scrawled on it and wondering exactly what it was that I was thinking of when I [...]