To all my faithful fans, or those who might be surprised at my return, I have an announcement:One month ago, on the 5th of November 2008, Frank and Nikki announced the arrival of their daughter, Amelia Emily Aldridge. It has been a long, often excruciating journey (and even then I can hardly speak) to bring her into this world, but it has all been worth it to hold my little girl. She is a healthy,...

Ah, the joys of financial burden! Finally, my visions of social responsibility are complete. I mean seriously, who needs youth when you can have a mortgage?So as you've probably surmised, we bought the house. I thought it would probably be better not to still be pissing away our money on rent when the baby arrives, so here we are. A lot of our stuff is still in boxes, and some of our furniture...

You. Yes, you. I hope you're happy. My laptop has officially died, so now if I want to check my messages, I have to get dressed, and as you can imagine, my quality of life has slipped dramatically downhill.Today was even meant to be my day off. So much for rest for the wicked. Or was it the other way around? Whatever, I now have to treck into civic to hand in a stupid stock report and run errands...

Hi guys.As some of you have pointedly noted, I haven't been around for quite a while. I guess you could say I've been lazy, and yet, that doesn't quite explain my total absence from the internet... No, that would be due to the preparations my girlfriend and I are making for the birth of our first child. Unexpected? You bet.In an ambitious scheme, I have been taking on extra marketing projects, and...

So it seems that I have not been online for quite some time. Or at least, I have not been around for what qualifies as some time on the internet. And as you may have gathered, I am frequently not as devoted to cyberspace as I could be...Life will have its way, and I've been hitting my own hard times, as I am wont to do now and then. I've just had a first-hand reminder of how difficult it is to...

It’s almost 2pm, and I just woke up. I feel practically zombified, and my ribs still cane from the pressure of not being able to breathe for three and a half hours.For a little explanation, I just got back from the Dream Theater gig in Sydney. It was a pit of screaming, clawing, saturated human filth… So it was fantastic. Like all good metal concerts, it fulfilled its fair share of casualties,...

Ah, caffeination- that sublime, bitter gift of omnipotence only an addict could understand! Our national vice, I think coffee must account for at least a third of our productive economy, and close to half of my personality. Coffee cements business deals, it turns insomnia into genius and elevates procrastination to an art form.And I am all out of it...Dry. Clean. Practically sober. And worse...

Seriously, I hate that bitch. My body is threatening mutiny already. Time to put some more shirts in the freezer in preparation for another day of punishing heat…Summer…every year it happens, and every year I wish I had been born on a continent where it is impossible to go twenty years without once seeing snow; where cold tap water runs at room temperature and stepping outside doesn’t mean...