The world has lost one of the greatest writers of all time. Michael Crichton sadly passed away on Tuesday after a difficult battle with cancer. Crichton's books were enjoyed by everyone and will continue to entertain countless generations to come.
He is easily my favourite author, as can be seen from my list of top books of all time (taken from my Facebook profile):
He will be missed 
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It's about 43 days until Kristen and I get married. Time is flying. We had our engagement shoot back on the 12th with Ben Rugers and have just got some of them back. Ben did an awesome job. The photos came out great 
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Photo by Ben Rugers
I seem to be getting photographed a lot recently...
Photo by Keith Rowell
Who's that stranger riding his bike along that artistic looking street?
A few days ago I managed to get into one of the photos for Project 365. The collection is being photographed by the legendary Keith Rowell. For the project Keith must take a new photo every day for a whole year. I might be a little biased but I think this is the best photo yet 
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Yesterday I got a slight hair trim... and by hair trim I mean shave, and by slight I mean complete. This year I decided to participate in the Worlds Greatest Shave so at high noon yesterday I marched on down to the Public Shave Event on Little Cribb St and had my head shaved. I always wondered what I would look like with a shaved head .
The answer:
Kristen and I took a trip to Southbank last Thursday and saw The Phantom of the Opera for Valentines Day. For a special treat we had decided to get VIP tickets which gave us seats in the middle of the third row 
. Although we had heard all of the songs countless times before, nothing compares to seeing them performed live, right in front of you.
The show was spectacular and all of the cast were great (especially Anthony Warlow who gave the phantom a perfect sense of pitiful menace). My favourite part was always the overture with the raising of the chandelier and the QPAC performance didn't disappoint. I got chills when the overture burst from the orchestral pit and the stage errupted into a light show as the chandelier was slowly raised to the roof. My excitement didn't waver in the least for the whole duration of the musical with each song being performed with such grandeur.
The cast received a very muchly deserved standing ovation and five curtain calls. After the show Kristen and I stayed for a short while to watch the orchestra perform the leaving music (kind of like credit music for a movie I guess ). It was amazing the kind of sound that could come from such a small group of musicians.
If you ever get a chance to see The Phantom of the Opera, I would highly recommend it.
Kristen and I got a new fish today so I thought I would make up a new wallpaper to commemorate the occasion 
I have added support for a few different tags within comments. Here are some examples of what you would type as comment content and what it would look like as a comment.
Links:
[[http://nathanhoad.net|htp://nathanhoad.net]]
http://nathanhoad.net
htp://nathanhoad.net
http://nathanhoad.net
Code:
[code]function do_nothing ($blah) {
return $blah
}[/code]
function do_nothing ($blah) {
return $blah
}
Terminal:
[terminal]sudo apt-get awesomeness[/terminal]
sudo apt-get awesomeness
Quote:
[quote]"I said something that was very profound and inspiring. I'm sorry you didn't hear me."
- Me[/quote]
"I said something that was very profound and inspiring. I'm sorry you didn't hear me."
- Me
Emotes:
:-D :-) :-( :-P ;-) :-@
Lists:
* something
* something else
* last thing
I think that just about covers everything.
This is my first official blog post on my new folio/blog site. I have been posting things to this blog for the past week and a bit but this is the first post since the site went up this afternoon. I might set up a project page for this site to keep track of changes that I make to the system. Feel free to have a look around and let me know what you think