The curious case of video games costing too much, how the long tail is ignored

I’ve recently been playing Deep Rock Galactic, an interesting coop game where you are a dwarf miner fighting off hoards of angry insects. It’s a fun little game that I’d recommend. There hasn’t been any new content released for a while for any of my other go to games such as Oxygen Not Included or…

Are you paying for the bottle or the contents?

I haven’t done a post for quite a while, I’ve been busy working on version 3 of my writing application Quoll Writer. I haven’t come up for air lately. Recently I found myself in Priceline, a pharmacy come “everything else that a supermarket doesn’t sell” type of shop in Australia that brands itself as a…

Is it really that difficult?

I haven’t posted for a while. I’ve been investigating whether I should return to University to study Law. It’s a subject I’ve been interested in since childhood and recently I’ve decided I really don’t want to be a “writer” but I do want to write. That is, I don’t want a career as a writer…

Yes company X I would like a relationship with you

As I mentioned in my last post, after a recent hard drive failure I tried to access my reddit account, I also tried to contact Mozy (who I’m using for online backups of my data) but I found it was impossible to find either a suitable “support@abusiness.com” type email address or a web page where…

Our Email Address and Mobile Number are more important now than ever

I had some sort of hard drive failure a few days ago.  It was on the drive where Windows itself was installed.  I spent a full day valiantly battling to save the sinking ship that was my Windows installation.  I saw so many blue screens and blurry fonts I began to wonder whether I should…

No Company X, I do not want a relationship with you

A nice man from Hitman, the pest control people, came around to my house today.  He was very friendly and gave me a great tip on how I can stop my legs from getting cut up when I use the whipper snipper in the garden, his advice get some shin pads.  It was a genuinely…

Modern medicine, the human races’ most amazing invention yet

I’ve recently been suffering from a bad cough, a cough so bad I would wake up in the middle of the night and hack uncontrollably for nearly an hour.  I went to the Doctor and was prescribed three different drugs, prescription strength Demazin to dry out my sinuses, Ventolin so my passages would open and…