Category: Life
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Pheasant Normandy (but from Hereford): a recipe
So, I’ve been “tagged” on Twitter to post a recipe and pass on the goodness. I really enjoy cooking, but trying to write down a recipe that I like making is tricky. I tend to cook like recipes my Nanny (great-grandmother) handed down: “pinch of salt, splash of oil (pronounced roughly “all”), dash of nutmeg”.…
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Organising the Workspace
Having been inspired by Lifehacker’s workspace show and tell, I’ve decided to organise my workspace a bit. I have a quite deep, wooden desk with drawers which tend to fill with clutter. I’ve decided to feed a power strip through the back of one of the drawers so I can plug in two USB hubs…
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Defensive Pre-tension
I was listening to one of Stephen Fry‘s ‘podgrams’ – “Wallpaper” – in which he briefly touched on the idea that the English tend to classify something as pretentious if they don’t understand it. It’s a form of defense of tradition or perspective. Intelligence or flamboyance are marked as a personality flaw; people exhibiting uncomfortable…
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Too much to read, too little time
Last week, I wrote about Nick Carr’s new book on ZDNet’s Web 2.0 Explorer blog. I got home last night to find a note from the Post Office confirming that the anticipated Amazon parcel had arrived. Also waiting for me were three editions of the Financial Times, this month’s Wired and this month’s Harvard Business…
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Happy New Year
It is now 2008, and I wish you all the best for it. I’ve been asked by all the friends who shared the ringing of the new in last night about new years’ resolutions I might have. I tend to be very abstract, and can’t really put an exact goal down, and have always felt…
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Cheated again
Along my bus route to work is a bakery which serves a cheap breakfast.Because I need to change busses just outside its window, I usually havesomething to eat during the forty-minute lay over. The woman who runsthe shop makes an interesting character study, and she has beenshort-changing me for two months. It may be that…
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Andy Mckee
I have discovered an incredible guitarist on Youtube. A friend sent me a link, and I had to include it. There is more of this gentleman on YouTube, just search for “Andy Mckee”.