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Having had another £300 gas and electricity bill from our supplier, and on my flatmate's suggestion, I bought a couple of electricity metering devices ( Read more... )

I flew out to Seattle, then down to San Francisco on Thursday ( Read more... )

Does anyone have a silver Dell travel charger and the cigarette lighter lead? I am flying to the US tomorrow and whilst I thought I had mine at home, it appears not to be.

If I can get it before midday tomorrow (Thursday), I will be a very happy man and buy you lots of alcohol/things :-)

What kind of a screwed-up traceroute is *this*?

traceroute to www.poggs.com (193.109.197.25), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets ( Read more... )

Ingredients

Some lean steak strips
200g wholemeal rice
Sunflower oil
Two large carrots
Several medium sized mushrooms
Two beaten eggs
Two cloves of garlic, crushed
Soy sauce
Oyster sauce

MethodPut the rice in a a pan, measure the depth with your finger and cover with cold water to the same level above the rice. Bring to the boil, then turn the ( Read more... )

This recipe is ideal for using up food that would otherwise turn in to penicillin whilst you're at Whitby.

Ingredients

Two salmon steaks
Olive oil
Parsley
Tabasco sauce
Soy sauce
Lemon juice
Asparagus
400g wholeweat pasta
Green pesto
A Peshrawi naan

MethodEat the Peshwari naan whilst deciding what to cook. Discuss the relative merits of ( Read more... )

Since I don't have a dual layer DVD, I've copied the OSX 10.5 DVD image to an external hard drive, booted from it, and I'm now making a backup image of my internal disk to another external drive before I wipe the whole lot and put 10.5 on.

I'm really glad I think I know what I'm doing.

( Heston Blumenthal cartoon )

I log in to my Orange account, only to be greeted with an advert that's larger than the useful content on the page.

( Advertising Fail )