About Me

Interests:
MUSIC! Camping, daydreaming, gardening, outdoors, walking, 4WD’ing, rocks, writing short stories, poetry and rambles & collecting music.

Favourite Music:
All India Radio, Alice Cooper, Black Cab, Bootsie Collins, Buck65, Catalyst, Cat Stevens, Chris Wilson, Clinic, Concrete Blonde, Death Cab for Cutie, DJ Shadow, Gonzales, Gotye, Guns N Roses, Iggy Pop, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, José González, Lemon Jelly, Lenny Kravitz, Life Without Buildings, Madrugada, Manitoba, Mclusky, Mogwai, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Noir Desir, Pink, Pink Floyd, Placebo, Queen, Richard Ashcroft, R.L Burnside, Scissor Sisters, Solomon Burke, Spoon, Starsailor, Tex Perkins, The Black Keys, The Flaming Lips, The Gorillaz, The Liars, The Republic Tigers, The White Stripes, Thin Lizzy, Trapezoid, Ween, YeahYeahYeahs, Wolfmother and the list could go on forever !!

Favourite Online Radio Station:
If you’re tastes are eclectic like mine, then you can’t go past Radio Paradise for ear candy. Ad free and listener supported, Radio Paradise is a must try if you haven’t discovered it already.

Favourite TV Programmes:
Neighbours, House, Chasers War on Everything, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Bold & The Beautiful (forgive me!), Big Love, The 4400, Touched by an Angel, Gilmore Girls, The Pretender, Heroes, Life on Mars, rage.

Favourite Films:
Waking Life, Forest Gump, The House of Sand and Fog, City of the Lost Children, Walk the Line, The Matrix, Young Guns, Waynes World, The Notebook, Shrek, Eddie & The Cruisers, The Girl in the Cafe, Love Actually, Ein freund von mir, Twilight.

I also am a huge fan of Australian movies – my top ten in no particular order are: Pricilla, Queen of the Desert, Love and Other Catastrophes, Danny Deckchair, Love Serenade, Rabbit Proof Fence, Cossi, The Castle, Aussie Rules, Storm Boy, The Sum of Us and Rage in Placid Lake.

Favourite Books:
The Alchemist; Dear God, this is Anna; The Slave; Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; Homecoming (series) and more.

Favourite Quotations:
▪ What you say about others is a reflection of yourself
▪ Life’s best moments happen when the odds say they can’t…
▪ God says ‘You do your best, and I’ll do the rest!’

Furkids:
I’m pretty crazy about my “furkids”, cuz they are pretty cool – two golden retrievers and two damara sheep, wish I had more land and I would definitely get a little bubby cow (lol). All my furkids I have had since they were babies.

Website and Graphic Design:
I started designing websites back in 1994. My first page was a Ayrton Senna fan page (heh) it had a grey background with black text and lots of pictures of Senna, the content streamed down the page, all aligned centre. but I had coded it all myself and I was very proud, needless to say my skills have advanced a LOT since those days.

These days I mostly design using Wordpress. It’s a fantastic piece of open source software that is advancing more and more with each release. I enjoy bending WP to my will, there isn’t much you can’t make it do. Whoever tells you Wordpress couldn’t make a solid content management solution, well they haven’t delved far enough into it.

I’m also a huge Adobe Creative Suite and Mac fan and enjoy creating using these products, Photoshop and Illustrator being my favourites.

Travel:
I love to travel, so far have been to England, Wales, Ireland, Spain, France and Africa. On my list of places to go are: Canada – because I hear they so much like us Aussies and the landscapes are to die for, America – because Americans are a crazy bunch and I’d love nothing more than to buy a Ford truck over there and drive across the country and for some unknown reason, China.

iPhone:
I’m usually one to avoid the hype of popular products, but I seriously am in love with my iPhone. I mean, it just DOES pretty much everything. I can run my company away from the office, what can be better than that? Fav apps include Wordpress, Tweetie, NimBuzz, Bejeweled 2, Scramble and eBay.