Bought a caffetier at the weekend, and a selection of decent coffees, the highlight of which was a hazlenut roast one which was something else. Have been awake even more of the weekend, unsurprisingly. The caffetier is great, all stainless steel, no glass (the reason the last one is no longer with us. Its a Bodum, if you want to find one yourself (they come highly recommended by me)
Adam Curry announced it, I am saying this is the future, let us leave behind the nasty corporations, let us learn to love the proper indie musician, and hopefully through iTunes or similar, have the opportunity to pay them a proper percentage for their music
CSS Layout techniques from the guys who did the Blogger.com redesign. Lots of good ideas and tips, and of course, beautifully laid out. If you think you know your html/css, you should read this
I’m not sure I have actually properly been blogging this week. Sort of floated around, rather than actually said anything I have been up to. Well I am here now, in some sort of shape and manner. Quite tired actually, probably could do with a decent lie-in this weekend. We’re going to go and see a film this weekend, The Wedding Crashers, almost consiously chosen something light and unchallenging. Should be fun.
I’ve got a nice thing sorted on my laptop, have got linux up and running with working wireless, which has been my holy grail for ages, and the thing that has prevented me moving over. So now the intention is to only use linux on the laptop, with the pc for my itunes and games etc. I need to learn more about linux for my job, and the only way that is going to happen is if I can use it every day, get into the way of it. So this is all a good thing.
Still thinking hard, occasionally, about doing a podcast. I love to ride the zeitgeist like a bitch, even if its after most other people have had a go first. I think I might have a bash this weekend, just a short one, see how I sound. If its not terrible beyond belief, I may even put it up here. I shall name it, originally, the flotskycast.
Link for today, got to love digg.com blogging, links, tagging mashup that just works nicely. You will notice below a couple of posts with links from there, it is set up so that if I see a story I like, I can blog it to here very easily. I have to play with it a bit to get my tagging sorted, but that is not insurmountable, and I may even be able to do something with greasemonkey to sort that out. Hmmm, digg tagging.
A really nicely done guide to UNIX, lots of the basics covered and explained well
Okay, I have raved about Greasemonkey before. It is an extension for Firefox which allows you to load scripts into your browser that can alter how web pages look and behave. The main reasons for this are to either fix a site that doesn’t work well or look good, or to provide extra functionality to a site.
Anyway, I have to reinstall firefox on my main machine, and do another install on my laptop in linux, so it seemed like a good time to list out my favourite scripts:
I have updated The P.Wyndham Little Project as I have had an e-mail from someone with more information about it. It is basically a short collection of letters I found on my doorstep one day. Have a look!
Saw this posted on a messageboard, and thought I’d hang onto it here.
BBBQS (bootys BBQ special)
de-bone a leg of lamb and marinate it in a
rub of lemongrass, spring onions, cumin, dried chilli, ginger, garlic,
olive oil and seasoning. Then cover in foil and put in the oven for
about 35 minutes for a half-leg. Now take it out and put it on the
bbq, keep turning it until the outside has a charred crust. Leave it
to rest for 10 mins and then slice it super thin, it should be nice
and pink.
Pile the meat on a big platter (there will be loads) and serve with
warmed pitta, mint yoghurt and rocket, people can make there own
sarnies up.
Sounds nice, don’t it.
