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Friday, September 23, 2022 →

8 days of basketball, 15 games, 8 podcasts, 2 silly videos, many conversations with basketball people, countless Twitter updates. The NBL Blitz in Darwin has finished, and I had a blast engaging with it as an accredited member of the media. I live a fortunate life. 🏀

Thursday, September 22, 2022 →

I would consider this grammar a bug in iOS 16. Anybody else agree?

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 →

Today at the NBL Blitz I’m cross-promoting @hemisphericviews 🏀 🎙️

That Thing You Do!, 1996 - ★★

Saturday, September 17, 2022

I’m watching this movie 30 years from when it was made, which is the same amount of time between when it was made and the time it was portraying.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005 - ★★½

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Watched on Wednesday September 7, 2022.

Ali, 2001 - ★★

Friday, September 2, 2022

The movie needed a more forceful editor.

Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★

Saturday, August 27, 2022

Watched on Friday August 26, 2022.

Friday, August 26, 2022 →

My young fella performed at school assembly today. They rocked out to a song about adjectives!

Monday, August 15, 2022 →

A photo from Yardie Creek during our recent break in Exmouth, Western Australia.

Lightyear, 2022 - ★★★½

Monday, August 15, 2022

Incredible animation and a non-stop action adventure, with just enough Pixar feels added.

Saturday, August 13, 2022 →

It is wonderful to be attending the Basketball WA Awards with my wife Hannah Beazley MLA.

The Rescue, 2021 - ★★★★

Friday, August 12, 2022

An incredible story well told.

Thursday, August 4, 2022 →

Enjoying a holiday read. A View to Die For by @cheri

Tuesday, July 26, 2022 →

I made a caraway seed cake. When I was a schoolboy, my Mom would sometimes make one of these during the day. When I got home we would eat it alongside a cup of tea using our fancy tea cups. This cake today has provided me with both deliciousness and nostalgia.

Minions: The Rise of Gru, 2022 - ★★

Thursday, July 14, 2022

A few light-hearted moments scattered amongst a sea of meh.

Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Massive fan service and I’m here for it.

Big, 1988 - ★★★

Monday, July 11, 2022

Watched on Sunday July 10, 2022.

Me in 1 Chart

Saturday, July 9, 2022

After listening to myself interviewed by Martin Feld on Really Specific Stories I started thinking about the strange mixture of interests I have.

For fun, I thought I’d grab the main categories and represent them in graphical form.

Basketball is predominantly represented by NBL and NBL1 - not NBA.

Podcasting incorporates listening, and producing NBL Pocket Podcast and Hemispheric Views.

Productivity and IT & Tech almost bleed into one another to an extent. Productivity is about finding optimal ways of working, creating time and space through efficiency and clever use of technology where appropriate. This can be applied at a personal level or a corporate level. Application of effective productive measures is how I can often add value with companies I support as part of my day job. The IT & Tech portion has shrunk over the years, as this area has become commoditised and it becomes harder to tinker. Nowadays my focus is mainly on using Apple platforms to build nice workflows to support my own productivity improvements. I will let IT & Tech also capture the small amount of computer gaming I do.

Finally, politics encapsulates mainly Australian Federal politics and Western Australian State politics. I used to work in State politics; my wife is a State Parliamentarian, so I guess this checks out.

I wonder if there are any other people out there with a similar cross-section of interests?