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Somehow...
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Expenses challenge
The Challenge
Make best use of my £16 dinner allowance when traveling on expenses, making best use of the amenities in my hotel room. Room service prices started at about £12.50, with a £5 cover charge. I decided that Waitrose was a better bet.The Result
SUCCESS! A four-course meal with wine for £14.68The Details
Starter- Waitrose Thick & Creamy ( Read more... )
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Eh?
Dear Royal Mail,
Given that you get to choose what address your automated system sends emails from, WTF?
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Tr^H^HPolltastic
Poll Speciosity
Clearly there are many more moral positions on these subjects than those implied here. -
This actually happened.
So, this week I have been cooking Sri Lankan food from Charmaine Solomon's excellent book. I had some delicious pork curry leftover, and ate it at my desk for lunch. These two things then happened ( Read more... ) -
Continuing my theme of supercilious posts
One of these gas energy savers recently came into my possession, and I have to say - don't bother getting one. I tested mine using the Awesome Power of Science(tm) and can confirm that using it makes water take a repeatable 33% longer to boil. Stick to sensible kitchen gadgets, like the apple peeler/slicer/corer.
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What's up with the RSC?
Is it just me, or have the Royal Society of Chemistry got a new publicity officer or something? First it was perfect Yorkshire Pudding*, last week it was that exam standards are eroding, and today it's a competition to discover the best possible ending to The Italian Job. Accusations of lazy press-release journalism and the fact that I agree ( Read more... ) -
Ocado Password Autocompletion
So, I finally got sufficiently annoyed by Ocado arbitrarily deciding to stop me choosing whether or not to store the password for their website to write a trivial Greasemonkey script to enable the functionality again. You can get it here, if you would find it useful.
( code also under cut )
