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Includes werewolf, warhammer, settlers of catan and magic, plus many others
September 2006 Archives
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Not sure what to make of this, I can see why Microsoft makes sense as a partner, but more of the exciting stuff on the web seems to be happening outside Microsoft's activities. More tv on the web will probably be the meat of it.
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Good presentation providing a foundation for the understanding of what tagging means, the triads are a useful thinking device.
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Very helpful in mapping possibilities and showing negative spaces, plus making out of scope decisions.
Tom Armitage and I are speaking next week at RailsConf Europe on Everything's interconnected: polymorphism as a design pattern for social software. Essentially telling the tale of how we determined the first order data items in the Nature Network social software application and extrapolating from there to some ideas on how Rails supports application design and vice versa.
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Overview of internationalization options for Ruby on Rails, it is pity this is not core functionality yet.
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Good overview and update of the classic CMC phone / email communications matrix, I know I'm late to this one
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An excellent overview of how newspapers and similar need to recognise the implicit value of what they are reporting
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Funny, I know the sudo one is more comtemporary, but this had me laughing
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Lovely looking cufflinks based on sewer covers from cities worldwide, I like the Parisian and Roman ones, I've been taking pictures of this kind of thing for years...
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Fascinating and believable contradiction of the standard beliefs behind wikipedia, that 700 odd people write the thing, Aaron claims that thousands contribute, but a core edit, which makes the politics of the moment all the more interesting.
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Just way too funny, clips of New York chatter
I love barbeques, they are the point of summer, but some people don't seem to get it.
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charcoal, vegetables and meat, slow gentle cooking
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Gas, rack of "meat", charred burnt bits
Now that things have warmed up again, it is time to finish this post, started in the warm sunny days of July. I'm puzzled by how people barbeque, it is a man thing, racks of meat, mainly sausages or packs of BBQ meat. I'll agree that meat helps the flavour of the barbeque, as the meat fat cooking on the hot coals gives the right taste. However I don't understand why it is often just meat.
Gas barbeques and self lighting charcoal, they are just lazy, particularly gas barbeques. A barbeque has a dry heat, cooking over gas gives a different flavour as it is a wet heat from the water in the smoke. Self lighting charcoal makes the food smell of chemicals in my opinion, the sugar based lighting gels work best with plain charcoal. Though it is getting harder to find untainted charcoal. Plain charcoal is not that hard to work with, see below.
My ideal barbeque includes sweet corn, aubergine, peppers, halloumi and some sausages, lamb chump steaks or some well hung steak. The halloumi needs soaking in water for 5-10 minutes then drying off. All the veg and cheese need brushing with a little oil to ensure they don't burn. The steaks are best with some marinade, done the night before, or in the morning, some oil, vinegar, red wine, pomegranate molasses, spices and pepper.
Make a pyramid of charcoal using a two inch deep layer across the base of the cooking area. Place lighting gel as you layer the coals, then light in several places and wait for 10 - 15 minutes for the coals to catch. Once the centre is lit knock the pryamid out to ensure that most of the cooking surface has caught. Now comes the hard bit, grab a beer / glass of wine and wait til they are grey and there is no more flames. It is ready to cook at this point, before this it'll just burn everything.
I usually start with peppers skin down to test the heat, if they colour up quickly then I either raise the grill or take things off and wait. Then some sausages to get some nice smells and other vegetables. I leave halloumi and finer cuts of meat to the end, as the cheese and meat are best hot. Last of all shrimps or any fish, as that will taste everything else.
They are one of the best things about summer, hopefully we'll get a few more in before the end of summer proper.
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That is me told then, quaint Victorian habit...
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old news, but I came across this when looking for a campfire to aim bot - no success yet
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Nearly five years old and still a great read, this names one of my unsettling issues with design. I'll mention psychology as a driver for me and why in braver moments I say I'm a designer
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treemaps as a rails plugin, should be fun to play with.
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Given that we have sold our peugeot this is a fitting note to part on, this is a lovely looking car and tremendously powerful
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How stability control really works, clever stuff, watch the videos on the second page. Essentially it slows a wheel to stop the spin, but differently for front and rear wheel drive, sadly still an optional extra on many cars.
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Long running thread on the strength of the carbon nanotubes proposed as the main material for a space elevator
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Delightful animated cat from Totoro, which I saw recently
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AIM client for nokia phones, simple and straightforward install, seems to work well from a few minutes use, better than Mobichat
