Teknetia

“Grow a thicker skin”

I had a pretty hard time at school when it comes to bullying and rarely felt happy in the school yard. I, for whatever myriad of reasons, never seemed to easily be able to get along with the other kids and often came under attack for my perceived differences. I left school in 2004, so this is only a few years ago. Being a child of the early 2000s, we Read More...

Lessons in photography or: how Aperture is teaching me to take better photos

I’ve been getting more into photography recently and have been trying to learn how to control the various aspects of my camera to produce better shots. I haven’t quite progressed all the way to full manual mode at this stage, however I have been using the Av and Tv modes of my Canon EOS 7D pretty extensively and getting quite nice results. Hopefully I will be able to think fast enough Read More...

Facebook suicide

I just deleted my Facebook profile for good and man does it feel good! I often get asked why I have done this, and I thought rather than rehash the same story over and over, I would just provide the Facebook suicide note that I sent to all of my contacts for you below. If you have further comments/questions/whatevers, drop me a comment! Happy to answer any question on the Read More...

Geo-locked eBook sales foster piracy

Amazon’s eBook business is growing in leaps and bounds, faster than the company’s own expectations, even overtaking print sales just 4 years after the introduction of the Kindle. For every 100 books that Amazon sells in either paperback or hardcover, it delivers 105 (paid) kindle eBooks, not including free titles. This growth is phenomenal and is in large part due to the market leading nature of the Kindle coupled with Read More...

This isn’t what I intended at all

I was recently asked by a colleague about my sexuality and realised that the connotations that go along with the word Gay really affect my ability to associate with the word and simply say I am it. I originally intended this post to discuss that, but somewhere along the line it turned into a story about my youth. I filed it without much thought as a failure, but have been Read More...

#SummerMenu at Flying Fish

Last year, I had the good fortune to meet Denea Buckingham (@GourmetRabbit) on a road trip to the Illawarra region of New South Wales. Since then, Denea’s been widening my food and wine horizons; from enjoying cooking and eating food to loving and living it. Recently, I was lucky enough to be invited to the introduction of the #summermenu at Flying Fish (@FlyingFishAU) in Pyrmont. At the end of Jones Read More...

When does it get better?

It’s Saturday night and I’m at an incredible Amanda Palmer ninja gig at Carriageworks with friends. The show: amazing. The location: incredible. We had spontaneous dancing during Leeds United, the back of a James Boag’s bottle sung to us, and a mosh pit powered only by a ukulele and good spirits! We laughed and sang along and enjoyed ourselves, met Amanda and her support acts and I caught up with Read More...

Going public

I currently have a public Twitter account, however it is only really followed by a mixture of friends, spam bots and a few people I haven’t met but converse with online regularly. My account doesn’t have any visibility or followers from the industry I work in, meaning that it is used very openly and without much (if any) censoring of my thoughts, activities, etc. I also feed the tweets from Read More...

Handling Difficult Broadcasts

With the general negative reaction to how the ABC handled the hosting situation in Manilla tonight, specifically in relation to the body out the window images, I would to heat from people on this. What was your specific take on the broadcast? Do you think it was handled well or could have been handled better? What is the general standard on how these kinds of difficult situations should be handled, Read More...