January 30, 2007 – 6:48 pm
Digital Web Magazine - Where Did My Beautiful Internet Go? Some thoughts on the sameness of the current internet design landscape.
January 30, 2007 – 5:08 pm
Blue stone lobby café, north sydney
Espresso di manfredi coffee. In the lobby of the northpoint building. Efficient staff look after all the office people who trek down, and do a roaring takeaway trade too.
Coffee is a bit thin, but still a cut above most.
January 30, 2007 – 3:57 pm
In case you didn’t know, the difference between a state forest and a national park is the difference between cutting down the trees and not cutting them down.
January 30, 2007 – 3:41 pm
An oldie: Chicagoist interviews Mr. T
January 30, 2007 – 7:56 am
Benny boyd’s, neutral bay
Allpress coffee. At first glance, this appears to be a sandwich shop with some outdoor seating, but step inside, and you’ll see a fully-fledged café/sandwich bar with a peaceful, well-lit upstairs lounge and dining area.
Staff are friendly and efficient, food choices are healthy, and the place [...]
January 30, 2007 – 7:55 am
Bar mokador, pitt st, sydney
Mokador coffee. Plenty to look at if you take a seat inside. A big range of pastries, and pasta choices for the lunch crowd. Staff are efficient, if not exceptionally friendly, and the service is fast, especially from the takeaway window. A couple of exotic [...]
January 28, 2007 – 10:24 pm
Lunchtime at north sydney
Hoping to keep the holiday vibe alive as long as I can, despite the prospect of country NSW being replaced by such things as this eerily deserted food court.
January 28, 2007 – 10:22 pm
timbertown’s big log
If you’ve never been to timbertown, but you’re curious about what life was like in Australia in the 1880’s for people working in the timber industry (and let’s face it, who isn’t), then you owe it to yourself to make the journey over to Timbertown. Where else [...]
January 28, 2007 – 9:16 pm
For the first time in a while last week, I left work, and headed outside expecting to see daylight, but it was already dark. I’d been under the fluorescent lights for a long stretch, and just lost touch with what was going on around me.
A week later, and some much needed time out of Sydney [...]
January 28, 2007 – 9:03 pm
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Botton.
Sometimes, someone lends you a book, and it so grabs you that you immediately throw everything else to one side, and finish that book, regardless of everything else you are reading. This was one such book.
Mostly about architecture, and a little about art and human perception, this was [...]
January 28, 2007 – 1:08 pm
Coolabah café, wyong southbound on the f3
Chipiron mountain coffee. Yes, it’s a truck stop, but it’s clean, well-lit, and the food is actually quite good. Don’t be too put off that it shares its building with a mcdonald’s, that’s par for the course
Coffee is made with an automatic machine [...]
January 28, 2007 – 7:04 am
DVD: Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale
As much as I enjoyed the comic strip when I was a child, this film - while capturing the slapstick elements of the comic’s world - doesn’t quite rise up to the heights that a more recent kid’s movie would. A few amusing moments, but really, for die-hard fans only.
January 27, 2007 – 10:16 pm
Book: The Tinderbox Way by Mark Bernstein.
Tinderbox is a hard-to-describe program that was the main catalyst keeping me on the Mac platform. It’s a tool for notes that lets your organise, import and export them in many different ways. The biggest problem with the software, though, is that its flexibility leaves people wondering how to [...]
January 27, 2007 – 9:55 pm
Movie: The Pursuit of Happyness
Another Will Smith Oscar vehicle. This time, he eschews the majority of the wisecracks for the role of an incredibly hard-working single parent. A good story, but with the poor lighting, it was hard at times to tell how good Smith’s acting was. Thandie Newton was great as Smith’s wife. If [...]
January 27, 2007 – 11:01 am
Riverstone café, bellingen
Riverstone coffee (organic blend). Next door to legendary health food store kombu, this place combines a licenced café with a small book store and a range of cds. Some very chilled lounge music plays - just the right volume to afford private conversations without forcing patrons to [...]
January 27, 2007 – 10:58 am
Café buzz, port macquarie
Café buzz coffee. Located in one of port’s many food courts, this seems to be the destination for serious coffee drinkers. Food prices are comparable to sydney, and there’s a range of coffee related equipment on sale, including the rancilio rocky grinder.
If you’re looking for the [...]
January 23, 2007 – 8:42 pm
Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products
January 23, 2007 – 8:41 pm
DVD: The Office (US Version).
More like the traditional US sitcom, this nonetheless has its funny moments. I prefer the original.
January 20, 2007 – 6:26 pm
The Bargain Queen has started a short series on inexpensive Valentine’s day dates. I don’t want to begrudge the florists their biggest day, but is it right that a bunch of roses is so much more expensive on this day than on any other?