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Translate This Button
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010I’ve just added a Translate.This button in about 5 minutes to the left hand menu. Looks to be a nice little JavaScript implementation of the Google translation service. I know there are WordPress plug-ins to do this but I’ve had mixed experience with those in the past so I’m going to try this one out […]
Rotating Star Field
Sunday, January 17th, 2010A tweet last night took me to a site that linked to another The Astronomy Nexus which had a handy csv file of astronomical data. The CSV includes all stars in Hipparcos or closer than 50 parsecs to us. Thats almost 120,000 stars. I knocked together a quick script to import the data into Vue […]
Pancetta, Chorizo and Broad Bean Risotto
Sunday, January 10th, 2010A warming risotto for the cold snap. Feeds 4. Ingredients 2 Onion Chopped 2 cloves Garlic finely Chopped 1tbsp Olive Oil 225g Frozen Broad Beans 150g Chorizo Sausage – Cooked and chopped into chunks 150g Smoked Pancetta – Diced 350g Risotto Rice 1.2l Chicken Stock 1tbsp or fresh Dried Thyme 1tbsp Dried or fresh Oregano […]
A Town Called Eureka – Season 2
Saturday, January 9th, 2010I finished watching Season 2 of A Town Called Eureka tonight. I like TV shows about quirky communities. A Town Called Eureka is an excellent addition to the likes of Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, the first season of The League of Gentlemen and Trumpton. Each uses an outsider as a way into the strange place: […]
Snowfall 2 – The Return of the White Stuff
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010I’ve been living in Liverpool since the early ’90s and I can’t remember snow this deep. Certainly beats the light dusting of snow in December. See also: Winter Wonderland – Snow Day and Snow day 🙂.
Sherlock Holmes
Friday, January 1st, 2010Just back from seeing the latest take on Sherlock Holmes at FACT in Liverpool. The city was very quiet tonigh with lots of restaurants shut and hardly anyone around the city centre. This take on Sherlock Holmes is a little more spirited and while not overtly steam punk certainly has something of that genres sensibilities […]
Happy 2010
Friday, January 1st, 2010Happy New Year!
1999 plus 10
Thursday, December 31st, 2009I had a slightly odd experience shopping on New Years Eve 1999. I was visiting some friends for a new years party and needed supplies so I nipped round to the local superstore, at the time it was a Co-Op. It was pretty late in the day and the first thing I remember was that […]
Happy Christmas
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Have a happy Christmas!
Snowfall
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009First I knew of the latest snow in Liverpool was the announcement on the news that Liverpool Airport was closed. A quick shot of the snow on the tree in my back garden taken from a window so I didn’t have to go out in it. Taken without flash, camera clamped to the window frame […]