Although paying for drinks or treats from a vending machine wirelessly isn’t exactly new, in Australia, Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) have revealed that the next stage of paying wirelessly for their vending machine products is using Smartphones. This is possible by banks having near-field communication, which are chips with wireless technology embedded in a phone. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia already
Read moreLast week the city that I currently live in, Wollongong as well as the nearby city, Sydney experienced severe storms and flash flooding. With these severe storms and flash flooding came blackouts and loss of internet connections. With blackouts as we all know, electricity is usually the thing that we lose access to temporarily, however internet connections can also be
Read moreIn my native Australia, a woman was the victim of a home invasion. Her home was broken into and many of her valuables—laptop, cash and jewellery were stolen which, with a home invasion is to (unfortunately) be expected. However that wasn’t the worst of it. The woman was victimised by this thief a second time when she discovered that the
Read moreMinx is a US series I came across on a random day whilst I was looking to watch on Stan and I quickly fell in love with it. Minx is set in 1970s Los Angeles and focuses on Joyce Prigger, a young feminist who joins forces with a low-rent publisher, Doug Renetti, to “create the first erotic magazine for women.”
Read moreAfter the Verdict premiered on the Nine Network on 10 August 2022 and is about “four jurors from various walks of life who have just handed down their decision. But after they leave the courtroom, events cause them to question if they made the right decision. Taking matters into their own hands, the jurors will risk it all to find
Read moreIn earlier blog posts, I talked about my decision to try a new type of virtual run challenge, the Conqueror Virtual Challenges, as well as my completion of my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth Conqueror Virtual Challenges: the English Channel, the Inca Trail, Mount Fuji, Angkor Wat, Marathon to Athens, and the Berlin Wall respectively. I have since completed my seventh Conqueror Virtual
Read moreI probably should have published this as Edition #2 but I was keen to publish the editions for every show I’ve reviewed up to September 2022, as well as the editions that focus on the more in-depth analysis content, first. In 2017, I started buying the annual Previews edition of TV Week magazine. The edition contains previews to TV shows
Read moreAs well as TV show analysis pieces, I’ve also written book analysis pieces, specifically on two book series (or at least some of the books within these series) that I had and loved as a child, the Clue series and the Mr. Men and Little Miss complete collections. I don’t know why but at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Read moreIn the previous edition, I spoke about why I write TV show analysis pieces and provided more details on why I wrote Marital and Gender Roles in The Brady Bunch and House Husbands, Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology, and Exploration of the afterlife on television: Upload vs The Good Place. This edition will focus on the three analysis pieces I’ve written about Charmed. Even
Read moreAs well as reviews of TV shows and web series, I’ve also written a few analysis pieces on TV shows (and plan to write more in the future). While technically speaking, the words ‘analysis’ and ‘review’ could be interchangeable, and you could ask me “are your reviews not analysing the TV shows and web series you watch?” My answer to
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