Alex

Alex Kidman is a multi-award winning Australian technology writer, former editor at Gizmodo, CNET, GameSpot, ZDNet, PC Mag, APC, Finder and as a contributor to the ABC, SMH, AFR, Courier Mail, GadgetGuy, PC & Tech Authority, Atomic and many more. He's been writing professionally since 1998, and his passions include technology, social issues, education, retro gaming and professional wrestling.

Slow season…

It’s always quiet in that period inbetween Christmas and New Year’s eve — I don’t really expect anything to pick up until at least halfway through January, really. Having said that, I’m writing like a fiend right now, but that’s all print stuff that won’t see the page for a month or so. In the

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Talkies!

I’ll be doing a radio interview this afternoon for ABC Port Macquarie, on the topic of online fraud, and how to avoid it — the keen eyed amongst you might note that I wrote a feature on this for a recent issue of Netguide. Now, normally I would have at least one reader of this

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I've been busy…

With this, that, and the other. I have work that’s been published that I could be linking here. Ah, to heck with that. A picture, so they say, is worth a thousand words — which perhaps means I should be doing all my per-word-rate writing in pictographs — and so… First one to work out

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Rules…

I found this pretty funny: Rugby is pretty simple, there are two rules: 1) Beat the crap out of the opposition. 2) Don’t let the referee observe you beating the crap out of the opposition. Oh, and there’s some shizzle about not passing forward or running off the pitch, but that’s all secondary to the

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