As is my fatherly want, I posted a video on YouTube of Harry playing Halo 3.

And boy is he crap. Checkit:

On a whim I sent it to the fansite Halo.Bungie.Org and they picked it up. He’s now had more views than some many of my work related videos…

Local rivalry, or just me goofing off?, originally uploaded by thomasrdotorg.

I rejiged my twin N WiFi networks (routing tables anyone?) and while I was there I changed the SSID for both networks to create a fake street vs street argument in my neghbourhood. Barkly and Milton sts intersect- and now in more ways than one…

Back in 2007 I was enjoying my first year on 3AW as their motoring expert. One of my first tasks (though I would call it a segment idea) was to find Neil Mitchell a new car to replace his ageing and awful Saab 9-3.

With a budget of $70k the field was wide open. We looked week to week at different cars that Neil hated equally.

Eventually I decided that we had to shake things up a bit. I thought about it thusly: “If Neil is the number one rating morning show presenter in Melbourne, surely he could spring for a lot more than $70k?” So I rang around and assembled some “different” cars for the segment. Different as in $400,000 price tags.

…and you’ll have to listen to the podcast to hear what they were.

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LIke every Gen X with a car interest, I loved the Cannonball Run series and Dom DeLuise’s madcap performances.

It was also the first film I saw that had outtakes in the closing credits:

Classic. He was hilarious.