Probably the biggest part of my job, and really it should be the biggest part of any competent administrator’s job, is automation. Most often system administrators start out in smaller…
Keen readers have noticed that my last couple months worth of game reviews are following a trend. Quite a lot of the titles are from independent developers and the vast…
My first interaction with Steam wasn’t a pleasant one. I remember the day clearly, I was still living out in Wamboin when Valve released Half Life 2 and had made…
I’ve mentioned a couple times before that I used to work in child care many years ago, mostly with school aged children ranging from 5 to 12 years old. What’s…
I wasn’t always obsessed with the Olympics as I am today. You see I wasn’t much of an athlete as a kid (hard to tell, I know) with the pinnacle of my…
It might surprise you to know that I actually grew up in the country, living about 30 mins outside Canberra until I was 20. Whilst I wasn’t living on a…
I’m something of a collector of failed MMORPGs. Every since my addiction began with World of Warcraft it seemed I was forever doomed to roam the genre in search of…
If survival horror is one of the game genres that I tend to rate poorly because of my internal bias against them then real time strategy is the genre that…
Whilst scientists and engineers aren’t the most superstitious of people emergent, inexplicable patterns can still make them uneasy in much the same way. The Mars Curse is one such pattern that…
I’ve never had much luck with Internet speeds. That’s probably because unlike most of my geek brethren I always seemingly forget to check the distance to the nearest exchange from…