The Offspring – Ignition Tour, Melbourne

Melbourne: Tonight The Offspring played the entire Ignition album, plus a delightful selection of other tunes at The Palace. The pit was hectic, but not too bad by Offspring standards. I could see Noodles and Dexter dripping with sweat – they gave all they had and the crowd went nuts for it! Melbourne was awarded: “best singing crowd” and “best […]

Planes Made Fun

When I was travelling on a plane recently my mind kept ticking over with ideas to make the journey more enjoyable. Most were aimed at making other passengers completely uncomfortable for one’s own enjoyment. Here are some of the ideas: Look in the seat pocket and exclaim ‘Sick bags! Oh goodie!’ Childishly yell ‘Weeeeeeee!’ when the plane experiences sudden drops in altitude Occasionally […]

iOS (is Overly Symptomatic)

I can’t disagree that iOS is a well polished, visually pleasing and easy to operate OS – it’s great from an end-user perspective. For a developer however it is a unnecessary garb forest of hacks and otherwise redundant code. Feels like coding for IE6 all over again…