… just saw another review on Outpost Gallifrey for our Past Tense story by MichaelCo: “Of Mercury and Jupiter Ian Mond & Danny Heap This is brilliant. The Doctor sets up four shipwrecks, maintained so no lives are lost and having studied many weather charts to ensure he got it all right – simply because …

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Had a very nice dinner with Janice, Lucy and Julian last night. Before Lucy and Julian showed up Janice and I had a fantastic conversation about Jewish Law – specifically whether women are able to touch and read from the Torah scrolls. Janice came with sources, killing any argument I might’ve had stone flat. Damn …

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So, I’ve decided to write a novel. Actually, I decided long ago I was going to write a novel, and in fact a few years back I did produce a manuscript. 90,000 words. It took me nearly three years to write. I sweated over each and every sentence. It was rubbish. Well, that’s being a …

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Yesterday I went to the funeral of my mates’s father. He died suddenly of a heart attack brought on by an aneurysm. I’m uncomfortable writing about it because I promised myself I wouldn’t use this journal to write about sad stuff. And this was sad stuff. My mate had been flying back from Israel and …

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Well, it’s official, I’ve found the most addictive Flash Animation game on the Net. It’s called Stick Cricket and is possibly the best cricket game I’ve ever played. Which doesn’t say much for all those EA Sports Cricket games on the PC and Playstation. You can find it at: http://www.stickcricket.com.au It’s completely unrealistic, and I’m …

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News just to hand – A new Stephen King book will be coming out sometime in 2006 (well, I guess the 2006 bit, but that’s what the news tit-bit seems to be implying). You can find a tad more about this at Lilja’s Library (the best place to go for SK news) http://www.liljas-library.com/ This has …

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- and for a good cause as well. Yesterday I left work early to attend the Tsunami Appeal Cricket Match between the Rest of the World and the Asian 11. I went with Mitch, Aaron, Nicola, Andy and Troy. It was a great days cricket, even if the score in the end wasn’t tight. Watching …

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Yeah, so I did one of those online tests. I wanted to see if I was actually a nerd. Well I’m not – according to the test. Though, to be fair, there were no questions on Doctor Who, Star Trek, how many books I own, how many books I’ve read etc. But I spose all …

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Wow! I saw Butterfly Effect last night and I wasn’t expecting much. Wasn’t I pleasantly surprised. Starring the ever messy looking Ashton Kutcher, BE is one of the best time travel films I have ever seen. It’s time travel done right, without being bogged down in technobabble and silly explanations and classic phrases like “a …

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I really consider The Shawshank Redemption to be one of the best films ever made. My sister bought the 10th Anniversary DVD for my birthday (what a lovely girl) and I watched it last night (for the 7th time) with my housemate Teej. And we were both mesemerised by the gorgeous directing, the jaw droppingly …

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