| Vox |
[Aug. 1st, 2006|04:05 pm] |
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I'm trying out Vox over here... |
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| Languages |
[Jul. 14th, 2006|11:03 am] |
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Languages can be tricky things. I'm French, living in the UK with Andrea who is German. The first phrase she said to me yesterday while I was barely awake had three words, each of which was in a different language: "Maybe heisst peut-etre"! |
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| ljtalk and meebo |
[Jul. 12th, 2006|01:55 pm] |
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This ljtalk thing is very shiny, but what if I don't have a Jabber client handy? Well, meebo.com comes to the rescue. It's a Jabber client on a web page. Shiny! |
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| Ginger beer |
[Apr. 28th, 2006|04:04 pm] |
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I made some ginger beer a few days ago, mostly according to this recipe. I didn't realise how much lemon is in ginger beer. Okay, so this just a crude approximation to ginger beer - it doesn't undergo full fermentation - but the resulting mixture is nice and cloudy and tasty and when I open the bottle it makes a nice fresh pssssscccchh sound. Easily worth a few minutes worth of your time! |
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| Back |
[Apr. 3rd, 2006|05:17 pm] |
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Tokyo is the future! The future has little dangly things attached to your mobile phone. Also, tall buildings. And cherry blossom. |
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| Buns buns buns |
[Jan. 15th, 2006|08:10 pm] |
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No, you're right, I haven't posted here in a while. Anyway, today I had some leftover beef and so I made some cha sui buns. I made the dough (this took a long time. pesky dough. i was hungry!), I made the filling (with beef mince instead, and honey and soy and other things I had) then put some egg glaze on top and baked it for 20 minutes. It was leftovers. It was also the tastiest thing I've had in a long time. I've left one for breakfast tomorrow. Mmmmmmmmmm. |
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| C17 |
[Aug. 5th, 2005|10:01 am] |
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One fire truck, one ambulance, three police cars and a night in a hospital waiting for a friend to recover from too much alcohol. Kids, don't do this at home. |
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| Six Apart |
[Jul. 31st, 2005|12:22 pm] |
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This week I've been in San Francisco. I made sure to pass by the Six Apart office to say hi to the gang. What I don't understand is how Six Apart can function with a bright pink sofa in the office... |
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| Pasta |
[Jul. 13th, 2005|07:32 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  giggly | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | I Have A Dream / Mamma Mia Soundtrack | ] |
Hello again. I'm making pasta, the flour has gone everywhere.
I took the tube on Sunday. Normally the announcements go along the lines of "delays because of signal blah blah blah", not "delays because of Thursday's terrorist activity". Then I cycled to Old Street, and I had to make two detours at Edgeware Road and Travistock Place because of police lines. I hadn't thought about it that much. London is very much continuing on, though.
I've also decided at the last minute to go to OSCON in Portland in a few weeks. I put in a last minute proposal with many many many buzzwords and somehow it got accepted. So I'll be there to talk to the Perl Posse, and will bring lots of orange tshirts. In fact, I'll be in San Francisco for a week before and a week after, too. I might do touristy things, geek out a little, eat some wonderful food, have an interview and drink silly cocktails.
As for the pasta, I followed a recipe very much like this one. It's dead simple, but just takes a while (all this resting, then drying, you see). You need decent flour, but that's about it. Mamma mia! |
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| Ubiquitous Google Interview |
[Jun. 23rd, 2005|06:03 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | still hot | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Perfekte Welle-Juli | ] |
Has anyone not had an interview with Google? |
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| Queen |
[Jun. 19th, 2005|08:01 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  hot | ] |
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| | Konig von D-Rio Reiser | ] |
I saw the Queen. She wore fuschia. |
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| Well, if I were a salad I know I'd be splashing my dressing |
[May. 23rd, 2005|11:13 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  surprised | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | New Order-Bizarre Love Triangl-The Crystal Method-Community service 2 | ] |
This evening I went to a musical: Guys and Dolls. I like musicals. This one turned out to be excellent. I mean, where else would you see lyrics like the title? The plot was funny, there was excellent dancing, and Ewan McGregor, Jane Krakowski, Douglas Hodge and Jenna Russell were all good in character.
So anyway, we decide to go for a pre-theatre dinner at my favourite sushi place, Taro. I discovered Taro when I was taking Japanese lessons by asking my Japanese teacher where he went to eat sushi. I go there quite a lot. So we pop in for a quich chirashi sushi and guess who's at the next table? Yes, Ewan McGregor and Jane Krakowski. Clearly, we look all casual, while mentioning quietly that Ewan looks like me... He was pretty cute actually.
I love you, a bushel and a peck! |
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| Ow, hot! |
[May. 21st, 2005|10:21 pm] |
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| |  sleepy | ] |
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| | The garden-Faithless-Sunday 8PM | ] |
Notice these two facts:
a) I like to cook, I do, honest. I've been cooking quite a lot recently.
b) I like to think that I'm fairly intelligent and can make rational deductions.
Taking these two facts in hand, why is it that this is the third day in a row that I've burnt my tongue while tasting something? Why oh why can I not remember that hot things are hot and that I shouldn't try and put them into my mouth straight away?
Answers on a postcard... |
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| Taraxacum officinale |
[May. 10th, 2005|01:55 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | sleepy | ] |
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| | The garden-Faithless-Sunday 8PM | ] |
Taraxacum officinale is the common dandelion. This weekend, while staying at my friend's house in the country, I flew a kite and bounced on a trampoline. I noticed lots of dandelions in the garden, and made myself a dandelion salad. Important tip: dandelions get bitter as they get older, so go for the small young plants... |
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| Recent photos |
[May. 3rd, 2005|10:30 pm] |
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| | restless | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | You're the Only One-Maria Mena-Mellow | ] |
It's not all doom and gloom. Last weekend I was in Bath for Erena and Mark's wedding. We even played some croquet. Don't they look cute? While walking to pottery, I've been taking pictures of Kensington Gardens: elephants, gold, signs, bluebells, my shadow, ducks, geese, swans and crows. Before that, I ate a roast suckling pig (not on my own!). It's been nice to play with my camera, take some macro shots, play with the options, hit "Enhance" in iPhoto (now you know my artistic secret!), and, well, be a bit arty. Which is good, because I'm on my way to pottery, and when I get ther I cover myself in clay and create.
What's my most popular photo? The kitten on a laptop, of course. I quite like blurry iPod shuffle advertising in Taiwan, rocking chairs in Florida, a stone in the sand, parasol and my favourite photo so far this year: parasol and clouds. It is fun taking pictures, and I like instant feedback and bright colours. Mmmm, orange. Enjoy my photos! |
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| Hates-software |
[Apr. 27th, 2005|11:04 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | catholic | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Pure Peasure Peeker-Moloko-Things To Make and Do | ] |
I'm a geek. I handle software. You might think that software would just work. Well, I might think it would, I mean, this is the future and everything. However, software just doesn't work. It always breaks. It always does the wrong thing. It always... well, you get the idea. So Richard and Arthur and I got together and created hates-software.com. It's mostly a mailing list, but you can see the archives and thus the hate when I got a little annoyed with computers last year. Think of it as the electronic equivalent of a support group: you tell us we hate software, we tell you we hate it too. Talk about liking software or working around software bugs is off topic. Join us and tell us what software annoyed you today! |
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| Reincarnation |
[Apr. 20th, 2005|09:57 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | catholic | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Pure Peasure Peeker-Moloko-Things To Make and Do | ] |
Yesterday my grand mother died. Also, we have a new pope. Coincidence? I think not! |
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| Bridal wear |
[Apr. 13th, 2005|07:39 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  confused | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Baby Boy (Featuring Beyoncé)-Sean Paul-Dutty Rock | ] |
For reasons that I don't quite understand, this afternoon I found myself in Debenhams on Oxford Street, in the Bridal wear section, offering wedding dress comments. It was quite weird. Don't be shocked dear reader, I'm not the groom, just the bridesmaid's brother...
ps I spelt that "bridalware" first time, hmmm |
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| Chopsticks |
[Apr. 8th, 2005|08:44 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | in a jumbo jet | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Koma + Bones-Morpheus (Meat Ka-The Crystal Method-Community Service | ] |
I have just realised that for the past two weeks I've used chopsticks for every meal. This might seem odd, but in real life it isn't - I'm just used to picking up chopsticks when I sit down at a table now. It all seems normal. At one point, we were in a restaurant in Taipei and the westerners were using chopsticks to eat the starter salad, while the locals used forks - role reversal indeed.
So now I'm back off to London town, and I suspect I won't have chopsticks at every meal, although I'm tempted to try it just for a week, and carry my own chopsticks around, ninja stylee ;-) |
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