Alex Kidman

The Amazing Race can be great, if slightly mindless TV. The latest Channel 10 season of the The Amazing Race:Australia… isn’t.

Time for a quick history lesson in the way games used to be advertised, methinks. So, as part of some ongoing retro gaming writing I’m…

It passed, that’s what, in a flurry of published work of mine. Here’s what I’ve been up to professionally in February 2021.

Lots of news sites are breathlessly reporting that one of Apple’s upcoming desktop Macs will be a “reimagined” G4 Cube. Only Apple knows for sure……

Hey, it doesn’t have to entirely be about what I’m writing or thinking about. I also read a lot, as any good journalist should.

I love me a cool, geeky idea — and what could be geekier than plotting your exercise journey through Middle Earth or Narnia?

So this morning’s gotten off to a wild start, with the news that while Google’s cutting deals with the big players around the News Media Bargaining Code, Facebook will cut off the ability for Australians to share news articles at all.

I swear it was just last week that I started working as a tech journalist. But it wasn’t, and over the years I figure I might have picked up on a thing or two.

Is that a reminder you really need? It seems so, at least according to online reports that purportedly show someone biting into a phone battery “to give it a little nibble”. A dangerous little nibble, really.

The start of the year in Australia is traditionally a less busy one for most offices… including mine. Here’s what I’ve been up to in writing, podcasts, video, radio and more in January 2021.