I love popcorn, but I’ve never been a big fan of sweet popcorn, and I do like spicy food. So tonight a new TV dish was born.. Manly Salt and Vinegar and Chilli Popcorn Handful of unpopped popcorn Teaspoon of sunflower oil Half teaspoon salt Half teaspoon of whole black pepper corns Half a dried [...]
I’ve just had a bath, and a very large gin, and whilst sitting there reading INC magazine, I ran across some words on mangement styles which seem extreamly obvious, but extreamly useful. On the subject of managing your staff, “Trust, and verify”. Now this at first is super obvious, but I’d never through about it. If [...]
Ever typed a text message and had t9 screw you over? Well, I once tried to say “Late, fucking queues in tescos” and it came out with “Late, fucking steve in tescos”. Anyway last night I couldn’t sleep so I decided to write something that would take a text message and give you all of [...]
Image via Wikipedia I was goign to save this one until the patent came through, but bugger it – have it for free world! So, the world is full of slightly overweight ladies, and tubby men, all of who will desire to loose few pounds over the next month. Many will try eating strange combinations [...]
The UK really is the home of innovation, really it is. It’s not been a week since Twitter announced they are not going to be able to provide an SMS service in the UK (I’d not even finished my blog post about Orange missing a huge opertunity here) and already a small UK firm has [...]
I used to work in a team which took all of it’s work from tickets raised in a queuing system. It was a simple way for people around the world to raise requests to us and for the team to manage their work load. Each ticket has an area of work (so the right people [...]
Somebody please make the following: * Fabulous Cooking Blog : a photo blog curated by an aging New York socialit, all photos featuring over made-up hands, far too many wedding rings and mis-matched crockery. All measurements in the form of “2 martini glasses full of dried olives”, darling. * Interviewing actors – can’t get an [...]
…is considerable more Web 2.0 than yours (yurk yurk yurk) than your sun jar. Created from an existing solar light, a left over blue led from my table kit, and inspired by Makezine’s sun jar article. Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn 10 minutes of INC causes revelation Insomnia + UNIX tools = [...]
Warning: you are entering a post written on an early morning train, after too many coffees, not enough sleep, and very very little thought. Your milage may vary, your home is probably not at risk however. Having spent the last week in the company of many fine geeks (Thinking Digital followed by BarCampNE), I suddently [...]
As I walked back from day one of Think Digital (more on this later – possibly after the full three days), I noticed lots of really good stuff in skips. It must be the time of year, but I passed about ten or twenty in a half hour walk, and in them were so many [...]
TV has lots of good stuff on it, but it has huge amounts of trash too. Virtually everything comes down to the lowest common denominator, which given some of the truely horrific thing syou here people coming out with, is pretty low. Now, if I made TV, things would be very different, oh yes… Firstly [...]
I’m having a slow day, lacking motivation or energy, and my eyelids feel heavy, so the only answer so coffee. Black Crack in liquid form, possibly only trumped by redbul rip offs from Tescos in potency. As I made the coffee I notice quite how perfect the small milk containers all. These teeny tiny pots [...]
So today another good idea got made into something. With everything ever for sale being available on the web, the price wars were always going to happen, and in some ways we’ve moved past them (I’ll buy from Amazon because it’s easy even if Jeff’s Mega Book World is a pound cheaper). Once you go [...]
I spent a lot of time (at the moment) thinking about how I think, and how I work, and how I can lear to think and work more efficiently. I really liked the advice on this list, called appropriately, how to think. Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn 10 minutes of INC causes [...]
If you’re having trouble fitting the diagram onto a page, or to not let Visio mess up your alignments, then the solution you’re trying to design is too complex. Paraphrased: If it wouldn’t fit on the back of a fag packet, you shouldn’t even think about it. Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn [...]
From my minds eye High in the sky I see a house I knew so well And where I will Trend never again I’m sorry Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : One Hot and sour manly popcorn Forget the deli, find a German The strange and pale styling The magic of computing
I’m a big fan of last.fm, party because I’m a data whore (it must be useful for something! Must keep all of it!) , and mostly because I can use it to draw pretty pictures. Last.fm will recommend other music to you based on the theorythat if you like Song X, and A.N.Other (and crowd) [...]
Being away from my beloved ibook and synology cube for a few weeks, I have imported my entire music collecdtion into windows media player on a portal harddrive. I’d like a nice way to visualise the information about how many tracks by each artist I have. WMP has one interesting feature (and many many wank [...]
I was about to write a huge ranting post about shit awful design of modern day products after my evening of fighting with a flimsy and knackered dishwasher, but instead here is a link to a website about living in domed houses. They look wonderful, truly wonderful. Possibly Related Posts: Cold Water Swimming Trailing : [...]
I’m reading a really interesting article from changeThis and the following paragraph struck a note. “Ever wonder why some solutions lack inspiration, imagination, and originality? It’s because we don’t think as deeply or as broadly as we must to solve the problem. We tell ourselves the optimal solution is a luxury. We throw some resources [...]
This is a great article about handelling personal names from around the world. It is easy to forget that most people’s names are not Firstname Surname, let alone ChristianName Familyname. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Hot and sour manly popcorn Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi [...]
I think this little article about having an hour in the evening to decompress and shoot the breeze (a horrible American phrase which I’ve always liked because it sounds like sitting outside in the summer and chatting until it goes cold) is spot on. We rush our food, we rush our drinking, and all so [...]
Costco is not a big thing in the UK (in fact, it’s unheard of I imagine) but I think theres lots of good stuff to be learned from How Costco Became The Anti_Walmart and the summery 5 business lessons from Costco over on Signal V’s Noise is a nice quicky read. Its interesting to read [...]
Having watched Grand Designs (thanks to lovefilm – my first batch arrived today) – I ran across Emmaus which seems to be doing some wonderful work. I love the photos too – they are master pieces. Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn 10 minutes of INC causes revelation Insomnia + UNIX tools = [...]
Always refreshing to hear an American with the exact oposite views to most – the freakonomics blog points out that the low prices for fuel in the US are responcible for many bad things. Whilst I was in NYC there was outrage that fuel had hit $3 a gallon (£1.50 for 5 litres) and people [...]
the song is rubbish, but I love… * Tube mice * cornish pasties * burnt lasagne * ginger * cold beds * tonic water * bugger 5 of my list are food Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn 10 minutes of INC causes revelation Insomnia + UNIX tools = txtr? Announcing the world [...]
Joel on software has a brilliant article about how you pay people affects how they work and how they are motivated. Brilliant stuff, well worth reading. You have to get over the hump of “if I pay you for something that will make you do it better”, but once you do, its an excellent primer [...]
…theres a big bunch of right wing militant christian neocons about. Possibly Related Posts: Hot and sour manly popcorn 10 minutes of INC causes revelation Insomnia + UNIX tools = txtr? Announcing the world changing, life altering, Benny Hill Diet! Uk Twitter message forwarder
I love the idea of Bathroom Bookshelf partyly because it introduced me to this. Animated folk-poptasticness. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Hot and sour manly popcorn Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and deployment Open source monitoring tools
What a good idea this is Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Hot and sour manly popcorn Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = ….
I’d rather eat my own shoes, every morning, than loose the BBC. It’s one of those things that might loose huge amounts of money, be available to people who don’t pay for it (how do you regulate who can view news.bcc.co.uk) and have a million and one other problems, but it improves society in so [...]
Everybody eants 3 eqal height columns, with three different coloured backgrounds, because it is the halcyon of web layouts. A List Apart shows you the way forward. Old coldclimate.co.uk used to use three columns, and it was a pain and rendered buggily on some browsers, but aparently this will work better. Possibly Related Posts: Getting [...]
Here’s a neat idea. Just post an idea, and see if somebody is interested, then follow it’s progress with RSS because its WordPress backed. Neat. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Hot and sour manly popcorn Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work with your Mac Flickr code dev and [...]
This is very wierd, and a very silly idea, but ultimately might be useful. Everytime you reload you get a different site layout which has been generated. Strange indeed, strangebanana.com in fact. Possibly Related Posts: Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Hot and sour manly popcorn Making your wireless router from Virgin Media work [...]
Strictly one for the geeks – I love these flash representations of old BBC (and more) clocks. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Hot and sour manly popcorn Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi + bored + guardian api + unix tools = ….
To write a googlemaps api plugin thats an overlay map for the route of monopoly bar crawl. It’s nearly done. Will launch after the weekend if all goes to plan. Possibly Related Posts: Home-brewed time-lapse fungus growing 101 Getting Redis and CodeIgniter to play together Hot and sour manly popcorn Mushrooms, live! Train + wifi [...]