White Russian, and the return of drunkenbatman

22 May 2007

Last week drunkenbatman popped up in my feeds again after almost a year offline. The last few comments on the previous post had led me to suspect the worst, though he is fairly prone to slipping off the radar for extended …

Melonballs

22 November 2005

30ml Vodka
15ml Midori
Orange Juice

Found in drunkenmonkeys photostream. Just build up over ice. I love the way the midori sits at the bottom in this photo.

Though it looks good in a short glass, you could also do this in a martini glass …

Use Your Illusion

6 November 2005

30ml Midori Illusion
30ml Absolut Citron
Lemon
Crisp Apple Juice
Ginger Beer

This signature drink comes from Glen Cullimore, member of new Zealand’s winning team at the recent TransTasman Cocktail Championship in Sydney. Muddle the lemon, then shake with the Midori and Absolute Citron. Strain into a nice tall glass and top up with apple …

Moscow Mule

18 July 2005

30ml Vodka
15ml Lime Juice
Ginger Beer

Extremely refreshing, and couldn’t be easier to make. Just pour the ingredients into a highball glass filled with ice. Always use freshly squeezed lime juice. 15ml is roughly the juice from 1 small lime, so cut a nice wheel out from the center first to use …

Illusion

23 June 2005

30ml Malibu
30ml Midori
30ml Vodka
15ml Cointreau
30ml Pineapple Juice

Shake everything together with ice and serve in shot glasses. I had to make a couple of these last night as part of our apology to a guest whose surprise party we completely ruined.

The Illusion is a lovely, luminous shade of green, thanks to …

Filtering Cheap Vodka

8 June 2005

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 …

Online Cocktails Galore

29 May 2005

An online treasure trove of cocktail recipes to sift through:

First up is …

Chocolate Martini

6 May 2005

150g Cooking Chocolate
200ml Vodka
50ml Cointreau
100ml Coconut Cream
100ml Pouring Cream

I finally got around to making an attempt at the chocolate martini recipe that Simon Phipps posted recently to WebMink. As you can see, this recipe actually has real chocolate in it, …

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Upgrading to WordPress 2.6
17 July 2008

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 …

Incredibly Strange Film Festival iCalendars
12 July 2008

“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 …

Last.fm Charts
6 July 2008

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. …

Sharing a Canon laser printer between OSX and XP
5 January 2008

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 …

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