Lets do this in reverse, head­lin­ers first. I’ve gotta say first up, I’m not a mas­sive Green Day fan. Last time I saw them (at the first Rock-It Fes­ti­val in 2001) I thought they were good, but I wasn’t blown … Con­tinue read­ing →

I get newslet­ter spam from Ziff-Davis in my Hot­mail account, which is all it’s good for really. I got one this morn­ing addressed to “Dear Vari­able Name”. I feel so special!

Because it’s chock full of pub­lic hol­i­days, at least for me. Last Mon­day was Labour Day in West­ern Aus­tralia, where we cel­e­brate the stan­dard­iza­tion of the eight-hour work­ing day by… hav­ing a day off. Makes per­fect sense to me! Next … Con­tinue read­ing →