Juice of 2 limes
3 Teaspoons of Sugar
Hot Water
Woke up this morning feeling pretty run down, so when I got in to work I made this up for myself - really soothes the throat, and the extra vitamin C should help fight whatever it is I’ve caught. Not really a hot …
I’ve finally booked my next holiday: Trek America’s Klondike Trek. I fly in to Seattle, where I meet the group and head off for 28 days of camping. We begin traveling north through British Columbia, through the Yukon Territory into Alaska, over to Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula. Then …
Looks like I’ve found my next project. After reading about filtering cheap vodka over at Oh My God It Burns!, I’ve decided to try my hand at making some flavored vodka. My plan is to buy a large bottle of reasonably cheap vodka, filter it a few times, then …
30ml ZEN Green Tea Liqueur
60ml Stoli Citros Vodka
Splash of fresh lime juice
Here’s something a bit diferent: Green Tea Liquor. I’ve not seen this for sale in New Zealand, but I’ll be keeping my eyes peeled in case I get a chance …
2/5 Kahlua
2/5 Baileys Irish Cream
1/5 Cointreau
The key to pouring a perfect B-52 is in not trying to float the Cointreau on top of the Baileys. Doing that will usually result in your shot looking like this sorry example. Instead, start by floating the Cointreau over the Kahlua, then sink …
I just finished updating The Vic with the timetable our latest event, Family Night at the Movies. It was my first real exploration of the power of CSS and html lists. Until recently I would have just used a table to do this, but since my new resolution …
An online treasure trove of cocktail recipes to sift through:
First up is …
I was lucky enough to be able to visit Connells Bay Sculpture Park this weekend, for my Mom’s birthday. Connells Bay is on the East Coast of Waiheke Island, and the Sculpture Park is a collection of sculptures by New …
Could this be the best mocha latte every poured? Sure, leaves and apples are pretty, but come on: it’s a lion.
There’s a good guide to latte art and milk frothing over on coffeegeek.com which covers everything you need …
This panorama is made up from about 16 photos I took with a crusty old Mavica digital camera, and covers more than 360°. I was shocked at how well it came out, so I split it up into 4×6 segments and …
Blogtender was hacked yesterday, resulting in a handfull of posts getting a list of invisible links added to the bottom, I assume in the hope that Google will pick them up. After changing my passwords (probably unnecessarily) I decided to upgrade to WordPress 2.6. The upgrade process is easy …
“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
The Incredibly Strange Film Festival is back …
This is a fun little script I wrote up that reads your weekly top albums chart from Last.fm, gets the cover art for each album, then displays the top albums on your blog. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how it looks. …
In case anyone else runs into this problem in the future, here are the steps needed to share a Canon Imageclass 4140 laser printer between OSX and XP. I’ve only tested this under Leopard, but it should work for Tiger as well.
First, the problem. While …
Linux distro to quickly turn a desktop into a thin client.
The TTM 57SL combines all the performance and features of the Rane TTM 56 with Serato Scratch LIVE software.
CSS setup to use the best available ampersand.
Ideas for naming computers on a network.
Network traffic shaping in Mac OS X using ipfw.
Metsker Maps of Seattle. Huge collection of world maps and globes.
A few steps to improve the display of websires on iPhone / iPod Touch.
