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Go Penguin Hunting

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

While doing a few bits odd an ends of Christmas shopping in Liverpool I did a bit of Go Penguin hunting. They’re sneaky and elusive creatures that like hiding in crowds of children. Here are the ones I managed to get shots of.

Australian Rich Fruit Cake

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

This moist, rich, fruit cake recipe was given to me by a friend from Australia.  Serves 12. Ingredients 175g Pitted Dates 115g  Ready to Eat dried prunes 200ml Unsweetened Orange Juice 2tbsp Molasses or Black Treacle 2tsp Candied Peel 225g Self Raising Flour (White or Wholemeal) 1tsp Mixed Spice 115g Seedless Raisins 115g Golden Sultanas […]

Edible Gobos: quite possibly as Tasty as Edible Underwear

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Allegedly.  I’ll come to that in a minute. Most spam is annoying but once in a while the bots assemble two random concepts that make a slightly surreal or scary combination.  Once in a while those are so out there and look so like real messages that they make it past the spam filters.  Here’s […]

The Ghost of Moderation Present

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I’ve just cleaned up some random text spam messages that hit here earlier today.  Nothing offensive or innapropriate but a waste of my time.  To make my life easier (and stop anything bad getting through) I’ve tightened the moderation of comments on this blog up.  If that puts the spammers off I’ll loosen the moderation […]

DirkDangerous.com Lives!

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

Four years in the making here, finally is DirkDangerous.com including One of THOSE days an exclusive little story.

Final Touches to DirkDangerous.com

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

Nearly four years in the making I’m putting the final touches to the launch version of DirkDangerous.com today.

SLA Industry Pages are Back

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

In the dim and distant past (well circa 1996), when I had my first web site on mudhole, I had some pages about SLA Industries a British, dystopian, science fiction, table top role-playing game.  Last night I revived some of those pages from back-ups.  So for the first time in quite awhile (well probably 8 […]

Bio Bother

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Time to fiddle with my Bio for the next issue of Astonishing Adventures Magazine

Lasagne

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

The world (and the world wide web) probably doesn’t need another lasagne recipe but when did that ever stop me 🙂 This is my favourite lasagne recipe its an ideal dish to serve a gaming group after a hard day of gaming. Most of the preparation can be done before the game so its just […]

Tree Gobos

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

I’ve added a set of 10 leafless, winter tree gel materials for Vue to my free stuff pages today. Tested in Vue 7 Pioneer, Vue 7.5 Infinite and Vue 8 Infinite.

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