Aug 7, 2005

Update: Welcome, Carnival of the Recipes readers! This is Zac’s trademark spicy Asian-style soup - it goes down a treat on a chilly winter night. Serves 4-6 Ingredients 1 onion, diced 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped 2 teaspoons fresh ginger, finely chopped 3 teaspoons lemongrass, minced 3 small red chillies, diced, with seeds in 500 grams of chicken breast, diced (about 2 breasts) 1 litre chicken stock 1 carrot, chopped 1⁄2 head broccoli a handful of spring onions, coarsely chopped 1 cup thinly sliced mushrooms (enkoi mushrooms, for preference) 200g udon noodles

Aug 6, 2005

I forget where I found this recipe, but it’s a pretty nifty way to spice up a stir-fry. Josh’s Easy Marinated Beef Ingredients: Beef (two porterhouse steaks makes enough stiry-fry for 3-4 people) 2 cloves of garlic 1 small red chilli ginger (about as much ginger as garlic) 1 tablespoon soy sauce 2 teaspoons oil (peanut oil or sesame oil are best - canola oil also works) Full recipe after the jump.

May 24, 2005

The Academie Francaise has announced that the French for “blog” shall be… …le bloc-notes.

May 10, 2005

I took the plunge today and bought the Mac I’ve been wanting ever since Tiger was released. It’s a 12” Combo-drive Powerbook; when closed, it’s small enough to hide under an A4 sheet. Oddly enough, it weighs the same as my old 14” Dell. It’s been a pretty good experience so far. I’ve moved my iTunes library, and I’m now looking for a decent Mac RSS reader. Mail.app is picking up all my mail; I can access my shared files on my Windows server (after a bit of work), and Remote Desktop is installed so I can remotely run Outlook on my desktop.

Mar 14, 2005

How to use a Motorola Razr V3 as a Bluetooth GPRS modem with your PocketPC - placed here in the hope that someone will google for it and find it useful. Pair the PocketPC and the phone; if you’re using a Windows Mobile 2003, the procedure is this: Enable Bluetooth on the phone and PDA, then go into the Bluetooth Manager and under the New menu, select Connect to Internet via Phone.