Land Information New Zealand has a whole load of high resolution aerial photographs of Auckland city (and a few other places) available for free download. The photos are colour, with a resolution of 2.5m per pixel. Sure, 198MB tiff files are …
I’ve just finished moving the website for the Victoria Theatre Trust over to WordPress. The site now uses CSS for all layout and styling, using a custom WordPress theme. The goal was to simplify updating the site so that other trustees would be able to contribute more easily. I …
10ml Kahlua
10ml Tia Maria
10ml Creme de Cacao Brown
15ml Fresh Orange Juice
Named after the infamous New Zealand cinema candy, Jaffas, this shot is orange on the outside and sweet in the center. Mix the Kahlua, Tia Maria and Creme de Cacao …
If you’ve got a 3rd or 4th generation iPod you can load it up with Podtender, a database of over 900 drink recipes. You get 30 drinks in the free demo, and everything for $10 (paypal). Yet another reason to upgrade my full-to-capacity 20Gig 2nd gen iPod.
Next week we’re changing to a new till system, Wizbang. The change is entirely in software, which will be running on our trusty all in one PCs (Senor Robot POS). I’ve only had an hour or so looking over the new POS system, and a brief look at …
Another automated bar! There are five diferent designs here with plenty of pictures.
A Bar Monkey is a machine that automatically mixes and dispenses alcoholic drinks. The original Bar Monkey v1.0 was created by Steven Avery, Dustin Cooper, and Brad Greer. The total cost of this Bar Monkey was $235 …
What a treat I woke up to this morning! Posted over at Slakethirst are two wonderful links to cocktail recipe lists. The first is Chuck Taggart’s Gumbo Pages, where he has an long list documenting the Cocktails and Libations of New Orleans
The other link is to Takeuchi’s Homebar, …
Everything you need to know to build a post-mix soda system at home. A soda gun is an essential part of any bar, and it’s far cheaper than buying coke by the bottle. Personally I’m trying to wean myself off coke & sprite as much as possible - just …
Some nice people at the University of Massachusetts have created an automated bartending robot. It’s so nice to think that I can be replaced by a machine. Of course, they are doing it to help bartenders. In their own words:
If we could cut out the job of the bartender …
At a mere ¥1,000,000 for a 700ml bottle, Suntory’s ‘Yamazaki 50 Years’ 50 year old whisky sold out within 24 hours. Clearly there is no shortage of people willing to spend NZ$560 for a shot of whisky.
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 …
Free alternative for backing up VM's for ESX 3.5+ and ESXi.
Entire MST3K collection downloadable as torrents.
Car head deck with an iPod slot behind the face plate.
Configuring public key authentication in OpenSSH under windows. The OpenSSH readme is awful.
Tips for using rsync to synchronize folders.
Open source VPN software.
OpenSSH tutorial for XP
