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.

Jan 1, 2005

Every year, the National Archives of Australia releases secret government documents from thirty years ago. These are always released on January 1st, and tend to be nothing more than an interesting insight into the mind of the government of the day. Not this year. Read on to find out why. According to this morning’s Age, 1974 was the year that the Labor government under Gough Whitlam “lost its grip on reality and its own conduct”, and “the year Treasury lost its influence on Government decision-making”.