I attended Melbourne's White Night festival last night, its fifth annual dusk-until-dawn light, music and art-installation festival held across its city centre. Taking advantage of all-night public transport, I caught a train into the city, and - expecting large crowds in the heart of the city - decided to start just outside it at the Royal ( Read more... )

Yes, I've remembered I have a journal. It's been over six months since my last substantial update, and a surprising amount has changed in the interim.

( New employment )

Today marks a year since the day I departed Great Britain, embarking on an incredible journey backpacking my way across three continents to finally arrive back in my home-country of Australia 4 months later. It's staggering how quickly time flies: I can still remember, quite clearly, my life in the UK like it was yestreday....surely it can't be a ( Read more... )

Well, how quickly 4 months screams by ( Read more... )

A fucking excellent night in Brixton this evening, seeing world-renown grunge music legends Soundgarden tour after last year's first new album since they reformed after 15 years. I've been a fan of Soundgarden since my early teenage years - hell, I pretty much grew up to them - and heard about their short European tour nearly by accident, only able ( Read more... )

Holy shit, Soundgarden are touring Blighty! In my own backyard, no less!!! *fall over ( Read more... )

A marvellous night in Zurich this evening, seeing Australian world music legends Dead Can Dance on their tour promoting their first new album since they reformed after 15 years, with fellow fan Aoife - whose idea to come to Switzerland was actually hers, only to surprise me with tickets to their gig here as a birthday present. I've been a fan of ( Read more... )

The last time I visited family in Brussels (October last year, just before I went to South Africa for a month), I extended an invitation for my cousins to come and visit my hometown of London instead, where I would act as a tourguide for the day. About a month ago, they arranged to come over on a weekend I wasn't working - Mireille had been here ( Read more... )

We had been warned of possible snowstorms decorating the east of Britain sometime this evening, and we weren't disappointed. It looks like about 5-7cm of snow has fallen since dusk, and it was actually still snowing at the time I took these (just before midnight):

( 'White London 2012' photos under cut )

I've been keeping my eye out in the home NAS market for quite some time: for a long while I was planning on simply building myself one, with either a custom Lian-Li or Shuttle/mini-ITX case - something that could accommodate at least 4 disks - and I'd be free to choose my own CPUs and other options. But it was still fairly expensive, even with the ( Read more... )