Chicken Mulligatawny Soup

I came up with this as a variation on a curry recipe. I think it’s worked pretty well.

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Wallpaper #1 / Jeremy

Jeremy was dicking about, being a douche, but I got him up close and personal.

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The Social Network in the Music Blogosphere

About this time last year, I was busy putting the finishing touches to a data harvesting program which would go off to the internet and grab posts from music blogs when notified of updates via a feed. The motivation was my MSc Computer Science project, at the time untitled, and without much of a plan or a direction to go in. I knew I wanted to do something related to music, and probably to do with recommendations, with a view to creating a hopefully fresh take at how content can be discovered from editorially subjective sources, rather than behavioural sources such as playlists. Read the rest of this entry »

From Man Bag to Camera Bag

Camera bags are expensive. Really expensive. And worst of all, they all look like camera bags unless you’re willing to pay a premium for a good looking bag, on top of the premium that you’re already paying for padding. That said, I’m really really happy with my Lowepro Slingshot 200 AW, with it’s easy access, sling-around, hold-everything-I-have goodness. It’s ace for if I’m out and about and being a tourist, but it’s a bit rubbish if I want something that looks anything less than a back-sized fannypack. So I wondered what it would take to come up with something myself. Read the rest of this entry »

Cardboard Macbook stand

Working from home, sitting at my desk can be a bit of strain on my neck, since I’m always looking down at the screen of my 15″ Macbook Pro. Researching the range of laptop stand options available from the Apple store and around, there didn’t to be anything that wasn’t either too expensive, flimsy, a little bit ugly, or all of the above. I thought, at the very least, I could solve the expensive part of that equation, and I get the joy of a make as a bonus. Read the rest of this entry »