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…

Hollywood just stop, the world doesn’t need another Ghostbusters film

I was 11 when the original Ghostbusters film came out.  I loved the film and still do.  I went to see it eight times.  It played at a wonderful old Odeon Cinema, the kind that had a young girl stand at the front in a silly outfit selling ice creams from an illuminated tray.  After…

We are living in The Matrix… but in a good way

As a teen I loved the first Matrix film (the sequels not so much).  Science fiction Kung-fu?  It was a teenage nerds dream.  I still love the film and the iconic line “I know Kung-fu” was so powerful at the time.  What if we lived in a world where we can find out anything, learn…

Keep your tabs open, have a walk down memory lane a couple of weeks later

One thing I’m guilty of is never closing tabs in my browser.  Here’s an image of my tabs in my current browser window. Here’s another window. I think I have a tab problem. But I discovered something wonderful a while back.  These tabs, opened so quickly and forgotten so easily can provide a fascinating walk…