home cooked theory

No one told you

Whether it’s a sign of the writers’ strike biting or just the serendipity of summer programming, for the past month or two Channel 10 has been screening Friends re-runs at 7pm. This is right about the time that William orders me out of the kitchen, I won’t let myself on the laptop anymore and I’m [...]

Various forms of constraint

I am shifting to Google Reader today after years of Bloglines. Am I making the right decision? Do I care? I’m not overjoyed that Google will have even more information about me because of this – they already have all of my most intimate email. But Bloglines is just slow and it started to bore [...]

Settling

2008 marks my fifth year in Brisbane, and by the end of February I will have been here longer than I lived in Sydney. Given how much I have struggled to embrace Brisbane as a long-term location, that’s quite a psychological turning point for me to wrestle with. A few things have conspired recently that [...]