February 25, 2010 Posted by alan jones

Bandcamp Defender and brand personality

I may have passed Physics I and Mathematics I and gone on to complete a science degree if it weren’t for Donkey Kong, Asteroids and my favourite University coffee-shop distraction, Defender. Defender was insanely fast compared to other games of the time, and one slip of the greasy, warm joystick or buttons could send you flying into a lunar mountain, crashing into an alien spacecraft or wiping out... read more

January 13, 2010 Posted by alan jones

My wish for 2010: a little bit of Shhh please

I’m back from a longer summer break than I had planned, due partly to the irresistably seductive charms of a particular beach house but also because my wife Melissa being diagnosed with breast cancer. Elsewhere in the world, as the Copenhagen climate conference showed how self-interest and greed still drive humanity on a global scale, James Cameron’s Avatar3D inspired me to renew my... read more

October 29, 2009 Posted by alan

The Errol Flynn Skill Set

Gavin Heaton and Mark Pollard are curating A Perfect Gift For A Man — a book about manhood arising from the blogosphere’s contributions to Reach Out and Triple J’s Man Week project. There’s #manweek on Twitter too. UPDATE: there’s now an ebook and a printed book (AUD$44.95) available through Blurb. The following contribution didn’t make the book but that’s because the... read more