17 January 2006
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Sometimes cookery is about carefully following a recipe but often it’s a joyful improvisation instead. To improvise well, you need to know the materials you’re working with and, crucially, you also need to know when to stop. I was very … Continue reading
16 January 2006
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It’s good to have friends who blog. When we’ve done things together, they can write about it, leaving me time to read some poetry! Tags: friends, blogs, poetry
14 January 2006
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The meal was successful. I was particularly pleased with how the rotis came out; so much so, that I made two batches! Here’s the recipe I used, adapted from Mridula Baljekar’s Complete Indian Cookbook (everybody has a website these days!): … Continue reading
14 January 2006
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It’s my mother-in-law’s birthday soon and she and my two sisters-in-law are coming round for a celebratory meal this afternoon. Since Jane’s out helping with the weekly English class, it’s down to me to do the cooking. Instead of hacking … Continue reading
13 January 2006
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One thing I neglected to do when scouting out a possible alternative to Bloglines / Google Reader (woeful cybernaut that I am) was to check the blogosphere for what other people have been choosing. However, I followed the Technorati tags … Continue reading
12 January 2006
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For sometime now, I’ve been consuming a daily diet of “feeds” from all round the web. Getting regular updates of everything from technical stories to theology to what friends are thinking about (and contributing my own musings) is great and … Continue reading
11 January 2006
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Tony observes that “back to school” means much more traffic. He suggests that it’s down to private schools, which may well be the case in his patch of Oxford (and explaining why he has only just noticed the increase because … Continue reading
10 January 2006
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Here’s a shout-out to Paul, who has now joined the blogosphere with Lorccan’s Notebook. So far, he’s posting prolifically, which is an encouragement for me to not let days stretch into weeks! I read a daily collection of all sorts … Continue reading
9 January 2006
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Linux has grown a long way, from its inception as a project by a Finnish computer science student (Linus Torvalds) who decided to share what he was doing with the world in an unassailably open manner, to the present day, … Continue reading
9 January 2006
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I did some live recording with The Elusive Teeth last night. We set up in our normal rehearsal venue and the sound engineer parked his van in the car park, ran a stagebox up to the room and caught our … Continue reading