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New edition of McGee's On Food and Cooking
A new edition of Harold McGee's amazing book On Food and Cooking has been released. The original book is an amazingly detailed and interesting look at how food and cooking works from a scientific poin…
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Lions: 1, Christians: 0
Who says Darwin got it wrong?
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Dance music is dead?
Interesting article in today's Grauniad about the death of dance music. Is it dead, or just going back underground?
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British radio sucks!
I bought one of these handlebar-mounted radios from eBay recently. It arrived yesterday and I listened to XFM on the way into work this morning. Over my 35 minute commute they played three songs and s…
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Another Belgian Wit
I brewed up another Belgian Wit kit on Monday night, this time a Brewferm Tarwebier. I didn't add any orange peel or coriander this time, just to see, and used only glucose. We'll see how it goes. I t…
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New public key
I have a new public key for anyone wanting to contact me. Impetus for getting this was Rob Kaper coming to the wilds of NW London to exchange signatures with Steve and I.
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Wheat beer and IPA
Just bottled my exceptionally bitter IPA. Brewed from a Coopers IPA kit and it's certainly damn bitter. Should be nice when it's ready. Also just cracked into my Belgian Wit which I thought was going…
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What a lovely area!
My work is in such a delightful area. Apparently there was a shooting just outside the office last night around 1800. This morning I get to work to find Police and Fire Brigade around the building bec…
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John Peel RIP
The only good DJ left on Radio 1, John Peel, has died. A very sad day for all music fans. This man has broken more new bands, giving them their big break, than probably any other. His incredibly broad…
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Cider making weekend
Over the weekend, Scott and I went cider making in the Forest of Dean. Was a great weekend away in beautiful countryside and we learnt the pleasures of making traditional cider. We also got to bring b…
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Bloody hell my foot!
I seem to have injured my foot. Possibly a stress fracture, according to the quacks. Hurts like buggery ("Nothing hurts like buggery" - Doug Anthony All Stars) and was throbbing all night. I'm off to…
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Now part of Openguides
My geek tourist site now has an Openguides address: engineer.openguides.org.
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Not lovin it
What part of no junk mail were you having trouble with, McDonald's?
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Suck-in-your-cheeks bitter!
Put the Coopers IPA in the bucket yesterday. I boiled up a huge couple of handfuls of Fuggles hops for half an hour to try and get a bit more bite in. Fuggles is, supposedly, an aroma hop and I got th…
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Reminder why I'm in a different country
Well, apart from this, anyway. I just spotted this out the back window of our flat. As you can see, autumn is well under way and the squirrels are gathering their supplies.
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Snowdon
A couple of weeks ago, Andrew Allen took us up to Snowdonia to climb Mount Snowdon. Of course, being Andy, the nice easy tourist walk wasn't dangerous enough and he convinced us to climb the hardest c…
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Coopers IPA
Just doing my water treatment (boil it all, nothing more) and yeast starter for my next brew, a Coopers India Pale Ale which I'll brew up tomorrow. Will make according to directions with 1kg glucose f…
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Geek travel guide
My latest project is a geek travel guide. It's currently kinda limited to the UK because the Openguides software doesn't quite handle coordinates outside the UK, well not in an ideal way. The idea is…
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Warm glove time
I switched to full-finger gloves on the bike today. Had the heading on briefly last night too. We all know what that means! cold weather here we come!
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Chilling effect...
I've been thinking about the election result this morning. It's very depressing, but has to be done. If Howard's agenda with control of the whole parliament is as radical as I would expect, things cou…