toss your salad

I’m missing my daily reading slot now that I’ve started driving to work instead of taking the tram. However, Radio 4 is providing an adequate substitute as I drive along the M6 hoping not to get stuck in a jam. This week’s Start the Week program had some fascinating guests on it. Two of which …

Fettuccine spinaci e pollo

I cooked this a few weeks ago when Mike and Libby came over one evening, but haven’t had chance to write it up until now. Since I’ve been trying a few dishes from Asia recently, I decided to switch location and move to Italy. I’m a sucker for any pasta dish, and I think Mike …

More mash please

Following the previous post, here’s a link to a boingboing.net entry – it seems MTV are joining this band wagon too. Here in the UK, the Q music channel has also had a mash up feature for some time.

Pirate radio

More coverage of the now infamous DJ Dangermouse mash-up of the Beatles and Jay-Z, Black and White albums can be found over at Wired. I downloaded this a few weeks ago and, frankly, it’s over rated. However, the extra publicity that it’s brought to the mash-up arena is beginning to make the discovery of new …

screwup

I have been duly reprimanded by my ex-fellow student and architectural adventurer, Bobby H, for the above comment about Sketchup and orthographic drawings. It is with great regret that I have to inform you that you have given incorrect information to readers of your blog regarding the export options of sketchup. I have been using …

Deconstruction and Tea

Thanks to some great entries over at City of Sound and That Brutal Joint about a piece by Nikos Salingaros posted at 2blowhards.com, I’ve been spurred on to catalogue a piece written by myself and a couple friends a few years ago for the Birmingham School of Architecture student magazine. It’s with recognition of the …

Caipirinha

There are probably about a million places on the web that you might find a recipe for the following drink. However, I feel no shame in making it one million and one, as this entry is repeated verbatim from the instructions given to me by work colleagues on my birthday last year (along with a …