Chocolate espresso brownies

We (the flatmates) picked this recipe up from The Age’s Epicure section a few weeks ago. It was probably created on the grounds that “chocolate is good, coffee is good, therefore chocolate plus coffee is double-plus-good”. Makes approximately 24 brownies, or about three once I get to them. Ingredients 200g bitter dark chocolate, chopped. If you’re in Melbourne or Adelaide, Haigh’s make great dark chocolate with 59% cocoa, in convenient 200-gram blocks;

Ryan is blogging

Ryan - one of my friends from college - has just kicked off his blog.

Shiny Things

Thinkshiny.com - influencing Bush Administration policy since 2003.

Well, that was (not) painless

The upgrade to MovableType 3.0 has been completed. You’ll now need to register to post comments. Did I mention that I really, really loathe Perl?

Pavlov strikes back

We have a cat. Or, rather, we don’t have a cat. But there is a cat. She lives somewhere in the neighbourhood, and seems to think that we’re her second home. This is a happy arrangement for all concerned: we have all the fun of owning a cat, without all of the annoying feeding and litter-box-changing and licence-obtaining - except for one of the flatmates, who for some reason loathes cats.