Mentalechoes

This week I came down pretty hard with man flu, which is regular flu caught by a man that leads to constant and nonstop complaining about how he is likely to die at any moment because he feels so bad. Women seem largely immune to man flu as they (mostly) suffer with dignity and just [...]

One of the greatest moments in the history of 80’s cinema was the crane kick finale scene of The Karate Kid. It’s quite simply the most amazingly foolhardy move ever attempted in a desperate gambit against all the odds. The thing is, if this had’ve been a real life moment, Daniel Caruso (played by Ralph Machio) [...]

In the years that have passed living here in Europe there was an inexorable motion that I’ve only recently become aware of, you start off as a foreigner and then end up something else, something in between. It’s something every foreigner is aware of, no matter how long they live in an adopted country, you [...]

I’ve been away home now around 13 years. It almost seems like another life time when I try to remember what it was like. Home for me was Brisbane, that nice big country town about two thirds of the way down the east coast of Australia. Lovely place really, but at the time it seemed [...]

I’ve never gotten along with my father; we’ve never understood each other and we’ve always been very different people. When I was 13 he left, and thus ended the time when we would be in each others lives on a day to day basis. He tried his best to maintain some semblance of parental control [...]

Tonight I was watching that movie Lesbian Vampire Killers, which just happens to be at the top of my favourite comedy films of the month list. If you haven’t seen it I would recommend getting a hold of the DVD and rounding up some friends and beers, and get ready to laugh your collective arses [...]

Feeling tired today, didn’t sleep at all last night. I hate it when insomnia takes you the moment you crawl into bed. Going to be a long day today.
The whole working for my own startup is starting to kick in, this morning being Monday I didn’t even think once about how shit it is that [...]

Watching this schmaltzy stupid romantic comedy on TV, while I burn time before heading out of the flat. It’s got Heather Graham in it, so it’s watchable just for her… just! But everytime I see something like this on TV I am reminded how much we sell this dream to kids who grow up to [...]

Currently in the office working on the business plan for spriteCloud. Every time we go through bizplan discussions I come to realise just how broad a knowledge of business you have to have to do these well. As much as anything I am quickly gaining an appreciation for the art and science of good business [...]

The thing that bothers about what I’m doing is that I never seem to have the time to do anything else. I wonder if it’s something that I will come to regret in later years, as so many people have in the past. There is a razors edge to being focused on one thing to [...]