Ratatouille Pie
Source: Weightwatchers”Delicious” (p157), Takes: 30 mins to prepare and 40 mins to cook, Rating: 7/10 My mum grows her own marrows and cougettes and so used to make Ratatouille all the time as an extra vegetable dish as part of a Sunday roast. So having it as the complete meal felt slightly under-whelming but it’s […]
The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
Sci-fi, 7/10 – January 2009 I suffer from hayfever and it often turns beautiful summer days toxic because of the little flakes of pollen that float through the air like poison. The big theme of this book is nano-technology and I love how the book describes the impact both big and small to humans. The […]
Lentil and Chickpea Casserole
Source: Weightwatchers Cook! (p120), Takes: 30 mins, Rating: 6/10 Classic vegetarian grub – boring but healthy. Lentils and Spinach are a good source of iron.
Moorish Tagine
Source: Weightwatchers Spicy and Speedy (p21), Takes: 30mins, Rating: 9/10, Nationality: Moroccan. A very sweet tasting dish with bags of flavour and fairly large portions that are quite filling. I particularly like the the crunchy green beans in contrast to the soft potato. Highly recommended (and I love how the name “Moorish Tagine” rolls off […]
How to plot dates in Google Charts API
The Google Charts API is great but it can’t handle date-based data. Lets say you want to plot some values over a timespan, how do you do it? One way is to sample the data at regular time intervals and plot it as normal. But if the timestamps you want to plot are not regular, […]
Home made Cushion
Kix made a cushion from material left over from the curtains. I never realised how complex sewing machines are until now.
Gears of War 2
XBox360,3rdPS,7/10 – December 2008 I played the game in co-operative mode with Kix – we did have fun but the verdict is: Not even as good as Halo 1. The best new feature of the game was “Crawl Mode” – When you “die”, you don’t die you hit the ground and get a few seconds […]
Creamy Celery Soup
Source: Weightwatchers Cook! (p10), Takes: 10 mins to prepare + 20 mins to cook, Rating: 7/10 Artists have their golden ratio, physicists have their theory of everything and us dieters have our zero point meals. What I like about this soup is that it tastes like it has cream in it but it doesn’t (it’s […]
Geek Elements in our house
Our house is sprinkled with little geeky elements: Subtle: Not so subtle: (If you can spot 5 geeky things in this photo, you yourself are a geek…) VERY subtle: (hint: Gnome Logo, “Perl”) Not so subtle: (The doormat says “welcome” in ASCII Binary. The laptop is running Ubuntu Linux with Compiz snow flakes to add […]
