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“Beautiful images you’ll be proud to hang.”...

Sat, 19 May 2012 12:07:06 +0100

“Beautiful images you’ll be proud to hang.” (Taken with instagram)

Can London Afford the $14.5 Billion Price Tag of the Summer 2012 Olympic Games? | Culture | Vanity Fair

Sat, 12 May 2012 18:17:10 +0100

Can London Afford the $14.5 Billion Price Tag of the Summer 2012 Olympic Games? | Culture | Vanity Fair:

Based on this Vanity Fair article, and the spiralling cost (more than £11bn) to the UK of hosting the Olympics, then as a British tax payer it is my considered opinion that the International Olympic Committee can go fuck itself.

Whedon on "The Avengers"

Wed, 09 May 2012 21:03:48 +0100

Whedon on "The Avengers":

Utterly charming.

My friend Scott got a new dog. He’s provisionally called...

Sun, 06 May 2012 12:46:55 +0100

My friend Scott got a new dog. He’s provisionally called “Wicket”.

Forget about cloud computing — this is cloud poochin’.

rrrrred: lindstifa: undercovernun: HODOR! This is ingenious. ...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:49:52 +0100

rrrrred:

lindstifa:

undercovernun:

HODOR!

This is ingenious. I wish I’d thought it up. :-D

Aaaaand I died.

Always… going on… about climate change.

Brilliant. _Brilliant._

Dinner tonight

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:27:27 +0100

Danielle and I made a three course meal for our friends Scott and Ali tonight, to celebrate my promotion to “application architect” this week.

Appetiser was chips and dips (a bit cheaty, but hey, it’s a school night so prep time is short, plus I only have one oven right now). We made fresh guacamole and a from-scratch caramelised onion dip (with sour cream, mayo, and cream cheese) which turned out to be bloody nice.

Main course was salt-cured beef brisket, with twice baked potatoes and runner beans. Beef was cured for three weeks then slow-cooked in beer. Potatoes were baked, the top cut off and most of the flesh removed. Flesh was mashed with sour cream and spring onions, spooned back in to the shell, and the whole potato baked again to rewarm it and slightly crisp up the top of the mash. Beans were blanched, then fried in Iberian pork lard with some finely sliced prosciutto.

Dessert was tiramasu, inspired entirely by some marscapone I had to use up. We made a fairly proper one, with a zabaione based cream. Very happy with how it turned out.

Pics to follow! (Over on O:S!)

I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you over the sound of the...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:22:22 +0100

I’m sorry, I didn’t hear you over the sound of the food I’m frying in Iberian pork lard. (Taken with instagram)

"Wisconsin State Senator Says Women Are Paid Less Because ‘Money is More Important For Men’"

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:38:00 +0100

"Wisconsin State Senator Says Women Are Paid Less Because ‘Money is More Important For Men’":

Repealing the law was a no-brainer for state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R), who led the effort because of his belief that pay discrimination is a myth driven by liberal women’s groups. Ignoring multiple studies showing that the pay gap exists, Grothman blamed females for prioritizing childrearing and homemaking instead of money, saying, “Money is more important for men,” The Daily Beast reports.

Britain’s Raving Monster Looney Party once made an election promise to tow Britain into the middle of the Mediterranean Sea so we’d get better weather. Is the modern GOP attempting to vie with them in the ‘unelectable nonsense’ stakes? Or have all the rational conservatives simply conceded 2012 to Obama and run off to prepare for 2016, leaving the field filled with wingnuts and lunatics?

ToDo: blanch green beans, then fry them in Ibérico pork lard...

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:19:55 +0100

ToDo: blanch green beans, then fry them in Ibérico pork lard with pimentón. Great idea, or the best idea? (Taken with instagram)

Beautiful pancetta from Melbury & Appleton - for spaghetti...

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:46:02 +0100

Beautiful pancetta from Melbury & Appleton - for spaghetti carbonara. (Taken with instagram)

Definitely.

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:26:09 +0100

Definitely.

Ullswater, one of seven pictures from our trip to...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:41:13 +0000

Ullswater, one of seven pictures from our trip to England’s Lake District that are now on flickr.

For real. Sorry.

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:46:50 +0000

For real. Sorry.

Sundog.

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:45:45 +0000

Sundog.

Current status. (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:34:35 +0000

Current status. (Taken with instagram)

Can I expect a follow-up post (here or TUAW) about your SSD install process, or shall I just email you to pick your brain?

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:08:00 +0000

The very short answer is follow this guide, which covers pretty much everything you need to know (and is all I did). I might add a few notes later but that page is pretty complete. Message me back if you have specific questions though!

My confusing Mac hard drives, let me show you them. In the...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:04:00 +0000

My confusing Mac hard drives, let me show you them.

In the beginning, I had Snow Leopard on my MacBook, on a small boot SSD and a bigger HDD. I backed the SSD up to the HDD (that’s on Macintosh HD). That’s the oldest OS.

Then I installed Lion on the SSD. Then I backed that up to the HDD prior to getting the iMac. That’s next newest. Physically, these are on a laptop drive in a USB enclosure. That’s Lion boot.

The iMac came with a new Lion install on its internal 1 TB hard drive, on which I ran Migration Assistant, transferring most things from the old two drives. Transferring so well that the iMac ended up being unable to boot without that enclosure attached (I assume some system daemon or other background process was somehow loading from the external drive). That’s the iMac HDD partition. That’s the second install of Lion.

Then I moved almost all of the data off that drive to iMac Data, which will be my main data repository when all this is over.

Then I installed a new SSD in the iMac and installed a clean version of Lion onto it (see above dubioustiy re: my last install of Lion not booting unless the external drive was attached. I didn’t want to just carry this install forward. It started life as Leopard so I figure it’s time to clean house.) That’s the third Lion bootable volume.

I now have to re-integrate the stuff on iMac Data onto Lion SSD via symlinks and reinstall apps and whatnot on the Lion SSD drive. Then all I have to do is confirm there’s nothing left on iMac HDD, Lion Boot, or Macintosh HD I want, then wipe those drives. Simple. Did I mention that although there’s significant overlaps between each drive, no single one of them has the canonical set of my files? Simple.

In the mean time, my Mac’s boot menu has five options in it — three different Lion installs, one Snow Leopard, and the Lion Recovery Partition (which only shows up once even though I think it’s on all three drives).

In other news though, the new SSD has made this iMac fly.

whileyouweresleeping: Nerdbait: How to cite a Tweet in an...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:50:44 +0000

whileyouweresleeping:

Nerdbait: How to cite a Tweet in an academic paper, from The Atlantic (h/t saragregory for find)

The future is here.

— Via sasquatchmedia, from SF.

Thanks to Twitter’s search being unbearably lame, citations in this style will only be verifiable for a matter of days. I’d argue the URL or the User and Tweet IDs need to be in there.

Some American schools teach creationism. Brits put Darwin on a...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:32:47 +0000

Some American schools teach creationism. Brits put Darwin on a coin. In your face, colonials! (Taken with instagram)

Daisy. #dog #lurcher (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:46:25 +0000

Daisy. #dog #lurcher (Taken with instagram)