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.

I'm in there..

Or am I? The latest issue of PC User is out amongst the greater populace (go on, buy a copy, keep starving freelancers in work), and I’ve got reviews in there — for Coolect, the Palm z22 and others — although for some reason I don’t actually make the contributor list in the front of […]

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Apes

3D Avenue has posted my review of King Kong — or, to give it its proper full title: Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game Of The Movie: There’s an island, a movie within a movie, and a big ape. And it would be truly remiss of me to miss out on the opportunity to

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Feeling good

I’m in the rare position of being able to pat myself on the back today. You should try it — it’s a good stretching exercise. Leaving that aside, my particular warm inner glow comes today courtesy of what happened on Saturday night. We were just getting ready to settle the kids down to sleep when

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I'm tired…

So, very, very tired… But late nights watching the soccer at Church will do that to a lad. Thirty people in one room — 29 barracking for Australia, and one sole Uruguayan. Makes a difference when he’s the minister, though. Not what you could call a “good” match — and I hate any match decided

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Lovely…

The world’s foremost authority on wasps is walking down the street when he sees a LP record in the window of a charity shop: “Wasp noises from around the world”. Intrigued, he goes into the shop and asks if he can listen to it. “Certainly,” says the shop assistant and pops it onto his turntable.

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