Did I mention something about an omelet earlier? That never happened. I’m getting a wee bit peckish now. To my complete delight, the cake comes out of the gugelhupf pan…
As I come downstairs, showered and changed, increasingly noisy cats start to appear, responding to the aroma of the pork. Meanwhile, the cake is ready: it comes out of the…
(There you have it: the obligatory “24” joke. I do love that series. I came to it late, but I like it a lot.) Time to make the Canary-style potatoes.…
(A slight in-joke. If you live around here, one thing you know about lambs is that they are Not Silent: just not.) Meanwhile, various bastings of the pork with its…
10 AM: the things that were supposed to happen now are rescheduled for a little later in the morning, Beemer brings in a very, very alive and affronted mouse and…
Cooking, mostly. The ice cream for the big Easter dinner at Pat and Mary’s is all done. Now on to the main courses and side dishes… 7 AM or thereabouts:…
So we’re doing Easter dinner with/for our friends Pat and Mary who live down the road. Dinner for eight. I said to Peter, “Okay, let’s not get too far out…
“Index page of YoungWizzle one of two official fansites fo` reada of Diane Duane’s ‘Young Wizards’ series. I started yo s**t and i’ll end yo’ s**t. To YoungWizzles Home where…
We’ve just finished moving all theErrantry Concordance entries into wiki format, and I’m in love. The entries look better…everything about the Concordance looks better. And it indexes itself.. People can…
As the user stats over at European Cuisines start to scale upwards — as they always do, about a week before The Day That’s In It — the referrer stats…
The business of how best to structure the Errantry Concordance as the entries start to pile up a little has been on my mind the past week or so. Suddenly…
In case you need one. (Flash animation. I can’t think of any circumstances under which this wouldn’t be work-safe, though.)
Those of you who’ve looked at the length of the various blogrolls off to the side will have gathered that I websurf a lot. This would be true. Sometimes it’s…
Sharp’s new Kitchen Composter. Only available in Japan right now…but they have the same voltage as we do. (runs to make note on Tokyo 2007 shopping list…) (Yes, I’ve tried…
Last week saw the 2005 version of what’s become a traditional midwinter trip: the run over to Switzerland for Fasnacht, the Swiss version of Mardi Gras. On our way to…
It tends to be a sporadic thing in Ireland. Only now and then do you get enough of it to lie for very long: and then it tends to hit…
CNN gives a good roundup of the most recent events — especially those of this past week and indeed the last couple of days — surrounding the big Northern Bank…
And not the one you’re thinking of, either: The angular velocity of the object equals the square root of Pi, times the gravity divided by the distance the pancake is…
I’m in love. From Iwantoneofthose.com: The binary watch. With blinky lights and everything. Woo!
Google Suggest (beta) Have to play with that a little and see what it’s good for. And when in the US only: Google SMS I don’t have to ask what…
A POX upon the month of January, already the crappiest month of the year. Snowed in with diseased roommates without internet access while being forced to imagine Abraham Lincoln and…
Now that the restructure of YoungWizards.com is almost complete, I’m starting to install some rather different material here. One of the problems of writing a long series of books (at…
One thing leads to another. Sometimes more so than usual. I went over to Matt’s blog at No-sword to see what cool translation things he’s up to at the moment.…
The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular…