I’ve been left at home alone this week, so have been approaching cooking a bit differently to normal: more advance planning; simpler, quicker recipes; slightly more pizza and takeaway than I would normally wish. It being Good Friday night, I took the opportunity to cook something that is rarely possible due to my housemates’ taste [...]
This is quite cool: http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/. Basically it parses the HTML structure of the page and turns it into a set of colour-coded nodes in 2D space. Try looking at this site’s graph (should be complete in <1min), or if you’ve got a lot of spare time, the Beeb homepage. Facebook’s AJAXy interface makes its graph [...]
Just because I’m taking “a holiday” doesn’t mean I shouldn’t make a lengthy to-do list. Family visits are much more pleasant in small doses. It’s not just my memory, living in Devon really is quite dull compared to city life. That’s the geographic location rather than the people therein, just to be clear. Hills do [...]
For 2 people. Ingredients: 4-6 good-quality sausages (I used Tesco ‘Finest’ Pork and Sweet Chilli bangers, which inspired the sauce) 200g (or a little more, depending on hunger) of tagliatelle. 2 medium onions, chopped in half-rings (ideally 1 red, 1 white) Some mushrooms, chopped as appropriate (to taste) Cider ~100ml single cream 1/2 red chilli, [...]
This is mainly a note to myself, because I’ve currently got no linux box of my own to play with – but a few readers may be interested! I came across a couple of quite cool implementations of FUSE the other day. SSHFS mounts SSH-accessible remote filesystems, locally on your PC with transparent read-write access. [...]