So I’m no longer writing regularly for the USSC blog.  Strangely, as soon as blogging was a “job”, I found it amazingly difficult to do.  I wasn’t nearly as inspired, and not at all articulate.  The moment it became a must-do, it was something un-fun.

So I’m crossing full time blogger off the potential career list.

And thing [...]

Sport matters. Don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

Watching the soccer tonight made me realise, I’ve never told the story of me, the Sydney Swans, and 2005. Regardless of what has happened in the interim, that year was more important to me than I could imagine.

My parents- nay, my whole family- moved overseas when I was [...]

I love Australian Rules Football, because it is the Australian game.

Long before Association Football was codified, Australian Rules set down its laws and made the code official.  And it was a peculiarly Australian code: one that allowed for ambiguities and differences.  It didn’t even have a standard field size.  Nor does it, to this day.  The beauty of [...]

It seems hardly a day goes by now when I’m not frustrated by the overwhelming white-straight-maleness of the world in which we live.  At work, the entire chain-of-command above me is male and white and straight. During my postgrad degree, I’ve had just one female lecturer, and one male lecturer who wasn’t white. Political parties are [...]

I forgot to post these! Here are two videos I made about doing UCWIP in DC.

First is a google search story:

And this was my Party In The USA photo montage. Because I [...]