Topic: General Bringer of chaos
(link)

11:56am, Tuesday 25 March 2008

Today I have caused amusement and mayhem by distributing the "broken Nokia" ringtone amongst my colleagues. Job done!

Topic: General Culinary disaster
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9:26am, Thursday 6 March 2008

I had never tried halibut before last night.

I will never be trying it again.

The kitchen still smells rank.

Topic: Computers What I do at work
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11:18am, Thursday 28 February 2008

The Guardian has a piece on the Sanger Institute. I help herd the "wall of disk drives", amongst other stuff.

Topic: General Chocolate Truffles
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12:44pm, Wednesday 27 February 2008

Based on this recipe, here's a dairy-free chocolate truffle recipe.

  • 250g dark chocolate (Green & Black's 70% works well)
  • 50g margarine (e.g. Pure spread)
  • 75-100ml fake cream (Oatley works OK)
  • less than half a teaspoon vanilla essence
  • cocoa powder

  1. Break the chocolate into a bowl and microwave it until it's melted. Add the margarine and stir well.
  2. Gradually add the cream, then the vanilla essence, stirring well.
  3. Chill the mixture in the fridge for 10-20 minutes.
  4. Make spoonfuls of the mixture into balls and cover lightly in cocoa.
  5. Keep the truffles cool; in the fridge is probably too cold.

Makes about 30 small truffles or about 12 greedy pig large truffles.

Topic: Computers Firefox new window tweak
(link)

11:35am, Friday 25 January 2008

To divert links that want to open a new window into opening a new tab instead, go to about:config and set browser.link.open_newwindow = 3

(Found here.)

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