I am a very tired boy, and as the timestamp on this entry will reflect, it is all my own doing. I got up at 5am local time this morning to watch the big make-or-break Australia vs Croatia match.

It turned out to be quite an intriguing and frustrating match, but Australia ran out the draw 2-2 twice coming from behind. They advance to the round of 16 at the expense of Japan and Croatia, and finish second in the group behind holders Brazil.

Before anyone comments, yes I know that the second goal was scored by none other than … Read more →

Yay! A non-football entry! The title is quite true literally, but more on that later.

At home in the past few weeks, we have developed a need for a lot more storage (computer memory wise). Although i've always thought that two computers with 60GB and 80GB drives were always more than enough for my storage needs, I am now quite wrong.

What has changed to need a lot more space? The usual space-hog in the computer world: video. We have just started to attempt to capture video from our video camera (honeymoon videos etc), and at a good quality for … Read more →

Apologies to all who read this blog, but this is another entry on football.

Firstly was Sunday's big indoor game with our team (which was bottom on the table) playing playing the team right above us. Although our chances of making the final are totally gone, we had set ourselves the goal of avoiding the wooden spoon to achieve.

Winning the past two games on the trot had put us in a good position prior to this game. The game started well, with our team doing most of the attacking. I scored the first goal, running onto an excellent pass … Read more →

The title pretty much explains itself. I have been staying up almost every night here watching at least the first half of the first game of each day of the FIFA World Cup. Here in Australia the games each day start at 11pm, 2am, and 5am. I'm currently typing this entry while watching Argentina absolutely demolish Serbia & Montenegro.

Before I get too much ahead of myself I must mention this weeks Poker winner:

Anthony

It was a depleted line-up this week, with only four players contesting the title. In the end it was me and Anthony fighting it out, … Read more →

If you guessed that the title refers to the Australian victory over Japan in the Football World Cup, you are correct, but I was also referring to our indoor football team winning a second game on the trot. But more on that later.

I stayed up last night to watch Australia play Japan, which kicked off at 11pm Eastern Australian time. For the majority of the game Australia played pretty ordinary. Although having the majority of possession, they really didn't create many chances but were unlucky to be quite unfairly behind following a Japanese goal which really should have been … Read more →

The World Cup has kicked off! After poker and the previous entry last night, I stayed up to watch the Germany vs Costa Rica match. After the guys left though, I closed my eyes for what seemed a few seconds during the very drawn out pre-match stuff, only to open them and see it was already half an hour into the game, and after 3 goals had already been scored.

After getting over me falling asleep, i kept my eyes open for the rest of the game (which was quite entertaining btw), and saw Germany win 4-2.

Other than the … Read more →

I'm typing this entry whilst waiting for the very first game of the 2006 World Cup in Germany to kick off. So begins a month of fantastic football, and for us in Australia, a month of late nights, early mornings, and overall very tired days. I'm really looking forward to it though.

Tonight we just had our usual weekly poker night that we have over our place. At the end of the night's game, it was an epic battle between Rolando with the very short stack, and Tim with the very tall stack. Amazingly, Rolando doubled up many times and … Read more →

Nothing much been happening lately. I've been slowly working through my Family Guy Season 4 DVDs that I got last week. It's easily the most hilarious season to date, probably because they went so much farther down the politically incorrect and just plain random paths than previously attempted. Absolute gold.

This week has also revealed to me how expensive it is to maintain a car. Registration, as well as a service including 3 new tires has cost us quite a fair bit just this week. Luckily you don't have to pay for either of those that regularly.

On the geeky … Read more →

I've spent a significant portion of the weekend on my computer attempting to fix a few bugs pertaining to this blog. First on my list was trying to fix the comment bug mentioned previously. I'm pretty sure i've squashed it, but I must still fix the other fields in the comment form. Again, please let me know if anything is screwy with making comments.

Last night we went to Church as usual, welcoming back Gabby after she returned from overseas by going to Hungry Jacks (Burger King outside of Australia). We had an interesting conversation on the naming … Read more →

Well there goes another working week. I just had an enjoyable night with the guys playing poker and watching The Family Guy fourth season that I got on DVD this week.

Tonight I actually won at poker, after getting beaten by my other half last week.

Tonight I have also done a little site update. I have added two new games to the games section: Frogger and N-Blox (aka Tetris). Enjoy!… Read more →