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A twitter inspired wedding cake

January 31st 2010

I saw this at the weekend in the window of a wedding cake shop.  To me it clearly looks twitter inspired, I wonder what the story behind it is? Possibly Related Posts: Radio silence A year in books A little routine Sometime your realise… This week I shall mostly be…

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Amazing tasty Chinese seasoning stuff

January 25th 2010

I’ve no idea exactly what this stuff it, it’s not crazily hot, but it is crunchy and has that slightly soapy taste of Chinese pepper and is amazing on top of noodle, soup noodles and grilled meats. Go to your local Chinese supermarket and hunt it down. Possibly Related Posts: Homemade flavoured spirits Slow baked [...]

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A lexicon for the uninitiated

January 24th 2010

Most of my readers can ignore this, or just roll their eyes. I’ve just seen a tweet by Suw that made me thing of a post I half wrote about a year ago and never got round to publishing.  I keep hearing people mixing up their nouns for “nu-media”, so here’s a handy guide for [...]

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Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac

January 23rd 2010

Finally, I’m up and running with Virgin Media broadband at home.  They give you a free wireless router, but all the setup instructions and the setup cd’s are for Windows.  The bloke who installed the cabling suggested I rung the £80,000 a minute phone line.  Panic not people, follow these instructions… With everything turned off… [...]

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Child security gone wrong

January 13th 2010

I received a very wierd email today.  Somebody has signed up to the Barbie website, and given my email address as their parent (which I hopefully am not, or at least nobody got round to telling me).  The site has then email me, giving their username.  They’ve also included lots of helpful links which I [...]

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At night I dream of food (still)

January 5th 2010

A few years ago I wrote a post at some ungodly hour of the morning about food.  I love food.  I eat a strange mix of fast-as-I-can-get-it-out-of-a-pan fast food, and strange and sometimes complex things I slave over.  I dream about food   at night, playing ideas over in my head and ruminating.  I wrote it [...]

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