Why 2013 will be a new Challenge for me

One Day

You go through life always wanting to do and be so much more then the amount of time the day to day grind zaps away from you, wondering to yourself “what if I did this?”, “what if I did that?”. I’m no 18 year old with a whole life time ahead of me anymore, so [...]

Why I’m playing my last Word(s With Friends)

Bye bye Words With Friends, thanks for all the fun.

I’ve been playing Words With Friends (WWF) since 2009 now going way back when it was still run under the New Toy banner and in my opinion it opened the worlds eyes to see just how cool asynchronous gaming could be on a mobile platform combined with social elements. Years on WWF is still incredibly [...]

New Year Social Network Clean-Up

Facebook by westm on flickr

As another year goes by, it’s time for a social network clean-up as updates from acquaintances and meaningless retweets seem start to fill my Facebook newsfeed and Twitter timelines. Once a year, I like to take the time to go through and cull friends and followers, it minimises giving access of my details to once [...]

Book Review – The China Study

The China Study

If you ever have suffered from chronic illness, or been close to someone who has, then you might find The China Study very interesting. This is not for the faint hearted or “ignorance is bliss” crowd, this book challenges conventional thinking based on fact and poses a lot of tough questions about the fabric of [...]

My Shark Dive

Shark Dive

Fully geared up, I slowly submerge myself in the small diving pool attached to the side of the aquarium. I try my best to ignore the 16 degrees celsius water but it envelopes me and will take some time to adjust, my breathing instantly gets very rapid. It’s been around 2 years since my last [...]

My twitter feature suggestion – enable lists in timeline

Twitter

Twitter lists are a pretty cool feature, they enable you to create a group of twitter users where you can view the timeline of just the members of that group, without the requirement of needing to follow any of those users. There are other uses as well, such as being able to share lists to [...]

First!

First

Welcome to my blog of geek ramblings, you can learn more about me here. I hope you enjoy your visit and are able to get some amusement or usefulness from my future posts. If you find something interesting or useful, feel free to comment and let me know, if not, than I’m really not sure [...]