http://olekms.com thoughts on things Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:02:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been a bit tardy with the blogging - failing to keep up with the modest pace set by Anna. To be completely honest I didn't really know what to write about. I had a couple of ideas but none really appealed so I didn't bother, thinking better not to ... http://olekms.com/2010/03/not-a-review/ I'm watching this amazing talk on ABC Fora (seriously my favourite site) and I'm pretty gobsmacked. It's called and discusses Eating Animals, a new book by Johnathan Safran Foer, in which he talks about his reasons for eventually becoming vegetarian after several years of flip flopping between eating meat and ... http://olekms.com/2010/02/eating-animals/ Okay so apparently I've gone and agreed to some deal wherein I match every blog post made by a couple of my with my own blog post. I'm not really sure about the rules, and I couldn't actually remember I had agreed to it until this morning when Anna's blog ... http://olekms.com/2010/01/sup-fresh/ I'm a Star Wars fan. Always have been. I wasn't alive for the original release of any of the original trilogy films but I have fond memories of sitting in front of the TV aged 6 and marvelling at the Battle of Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back. I saw ... http://olekms.com/2009/06/this-is-gonna-get-nerdy/ About a year ago I decided to become vegetarian. Well, not quite vegetarian. Pescetarian. I still haven't given up eating fish (or dairy). I decided to become pescetarian one night when I was out to dinner at a Chinese restaurant with some friends. One of those friends is vegan, and ... http://olekms.com/2009/06/its-because-im-vegetarian/ Another bunch of interesting photos from around the city. Will probably have a new (more wordy) post up soon too :) This (bad phone photo - don't have a flash) was taken after walking back towards the city from the Watchmen premiere screening at IMAX. This little guy was just chillin' ... http://olekms.com/2009/03/around-town-part-2/ Today I really felt like coffee and a slice of carrot cake. So I went out in search of a likely cafe and subsequently was exposed to the worst cafe experience I've had in Melbourne in the last 5 years. However, instead of moan about it I decided I would ... http://olekms.com/2009/02/howto-not-ruin-a-cafe-experience/ It's been really hot in Melbourne recently. Today achieved the second highest recorded temperature in over 100 years (if I remember correctly) according to the news on TV - 45.1degrees. Being the geek that I am I've always had pale skin from too many days spent in dimly lit rooms ... http://olekms.com/2009/01/fear-of-the-sky/ People listen to music in different ways. Some people like listening to entire albums at once, others just like listening to the most popular songs from their favourite artists. The main facility for organising and listening to music is the playlist. People make playlists which satisfy their listening habits. People make ... http://olekms.com/2009/01/metamusic/ Following my recent decision to stop buying products made from dead animals, I decided to replace my old leather wallet. After walking around the city for a bit looking for a replacement I hadn't found any nice non-leather wallets, so I decided to make my own! I had read of ... http://olekms.com/2009/01/diy-wallet/