Only last month I was denouncing Apple products as overpriced, underpowered and anti-freedom. Yet, within the last two weeks, I have purchased not one but two Apple computers – a desktop and a notebook – both surplus to requirements and both at the more expensive end of the scale. I blame advertising.

Boardgaming is one of my guilty pleasures – never mind what the others are – and I enjoyed a decadent weekend in Canberra for the Australian Games Expo.

For the last two weeks, Anne has been busy screening applications and interviewing potential nannies. I am pleased to report that a decision has been made, and that the successful applicant is ...

We are well into the new year now, but when I walked in and asked to buy a near-top-of-the-line iMac, the salesman in the Apple Store must have thought it was Christmas all over again.

For the second time in a year, I destroyed the blog accidentally. This time, I felt that it was not worthwhile spending 1-2 hours restoring old content from 2008 and earlier. Instead, I have decided to start afresh with a new Drupal platform: the old Joomla! installation had become rather messy and I could not resist the opportunity to tinker with something new.

Since my last post in August 2008, much has happened although little has changed.