The Brococli Dal recipe we frequently return to is no longer accessible from the UK, so I'm going to archive it with the rest of my recipes here ( Read more... )

Ruth got me a "World of Chilli" subscription for my birthday a while back, where you get sent a load of pre-packaged spices and a full-meal recipe once a month for a few months. We've only cooked one of them so far - I find the fact that it's nailed to be a four-person meal actually a bit limiting, as I'd rather either be cooking for two or for a ( Read more... )

Backpacking across Cambodia was my first adventure of 2014, and now I am back from my second - sailing from Corfu to Rome aboard Mark’s sailing yacht, Options. It should be stressed he did not choose the name, and changing it is both unlucky and expensive. Also, he gets to name his life raft “Out of Options” which in my view makes it entirely ( Read more... )

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and ( Read more... )

Someone on the hackspace mailing list recently posted a link to a Harry Potter fanfic. Not something that I would normally jump at, but given the context and the recommendations that followed I gave it a look ( Read more... )

My Virgin Media 50M line has had an intermittent fault for months. 4th engineer visit today, the engineer opened up the on-street cabinet and told me he was moving me to another "level" (physically a port, presumably a different frequency) as Virgin had put a "tab" on mine - a small round adaptor screwed onto the port that causes the upstream to ( Read more... )

How long is it going to take you to fix fucking comment notification emails? How hard can it be to fix an email-related problem in something that had been working near-flawlessly for years? Email is far from the most technically demanding area of internet expertese (unless you're building your own spam filter).

Fuckwits. It's like they've given up

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