Unhappy Meals by MICHAEL POLLAN
It starts with the simple advice and conclusion of the piece:

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the […]

I picked this book up cheaply since it was a tacky version with George Clooney on the cover that came out for the related movie. I had it sitting on my shelf for a while since when I saw the movie, despite it being excellent, I associate it with some pretty bad times. One day […]

I just recently have been watching the 10th season of Southpark - which I’m finding pretty entertaining after not originally being drawn to the show. The last episode I watched was “Make Love, Not Warcraft” which, as you might guess, is a episode about World of Warcraft. It’s pretty damn funny, and awesome that Blizzard […]

After spending the last year or so in KDE land, I’ve decided to come back to Gnome and see how I feel.
It’s refreshingly simpler - the other bonus is that it’s the default Ubuntu desktop, so seems to be integrated much better.
GEdit is can be made to look similar to Kate (I wanted to learn […]

The new Nine Inch Nails album is superb. Even though I’ve only heard 5 of the leaked/radio broadcast songs (the album has 15):
Survivalism
Me, I’m not
My Violent Heart
In this Twilight
The Beginning of the End

I feel a NIN obsession rising within me again, eek!
Did someone tell me that NIN was playing in Sydney soon? I may have […]

I just finished watching the 5 hours mini-series entitled the Children of Dune. The only Dune book I read was the original, which I really enjoyed but haven’t gotten around to reading anymore - thus I have some background on Dune, but can’t compare how the series relates to the book.
It’s a good thing I […]

A week ago, in a fit of escapism, I went to see two movies in a row: Crank and The Departed. Which I will review very briefly…
The Departed
This follows two undercover agents, Matt Daemon (bad guy playing good) and Leonardo de Caprio (good guy playing bad). It’s pretty awesome, and quite brutal. A longish movie, […]

I still hold that NWN2 was a bad release, and had many bugs, not least of which was being unable to install the game! However, I managed to get around that by getting a registry file from a NWN2 forum member, which let me then run the update program, which as it turns it fixes […]