Monthly Archive for June, 2006

Imagine if

Imagine if you found out that moments after you life expired this world and everything in would cease to exists.

How would this affect you and you life until then?

Code monkeys

Code monkeys comic

“Yeah, we got one of our code monkeys to do it.”

Socceroos match against Croatia (2006 World Cup)

AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE!

Australia scores a goal. Again!

Croatia started to get stroppy when things started to go against them. They even got a red card. There is only one thing I can say about that…
Croatia are... Losers!

AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE!

Masur Dal

Thanks to Seb for this recipe. He showed me how to do this one in London in 2005 and recommends doubling (or tripling) the proportion of herbs (and adding chilli powder I imagine). I’m not sure where this was originally taken from (Seb?). Masur Dal means ‘red lentils’ and are the basic lentils apparently.

1 cup red lentils
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cumin powder
2 potatoes, chopped
4 tomatoes, chopped
1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
4 green chillies (optional)
2 tablespoons ghee
4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 teaspoon garam masala

Wash the dal, soak, drain and boil in 5 cups water, adding turmeric, salt and cumin together with the potatoes and tomatoes. When the potatoes are cooked, add the coriander leaves and green chillies. Heat ghee and fry garlic and onion till golden. Stir in the garam masala and fry for two minutes. Add to the dal, mix well and serve hot with rice.

To be headless

I saw a band play last night.. they were very good. The singer was confident and would leave the stage to go to the bar in the middle of a song when the band was doing an instrumental. As soon as she left the stage I got the feeling that the act, which I had been quite into, wasn’t as good anymore, even though she wasn’t participation the music when she left the stage.

Is there some thing in us that needs this figure head to always be present? What ramifications does it have for other group processes where there isn’t a need for a leader, a one? Maybe these don’t really exist.

Flash, HTML or both at the same time!

OpenLaszlo is mind blowing! If you don’t believe me check their demo Flash Flickr browser AND THEN check their identical DHTML Flickr browser compiled from the same code or XML as it were.

As if that wasn’t impressive enough, the concept of zero-install, or no-install, stand alone web applications (I prefer widgets) is quite a unique idea and makes it Oh-so-easy to integrate into whatever you need it for like a blog, community portal, forum, static HTML page etc.

The final clincher for me is that its Open Source. Flapping their floppies at the big boys, YEAH! We (I) here at TMI like it and award it the ‘Sh!tHot!‘ stamp of approval, look for it all good websites.

And while we’re on the Dojo subject, why not draw a picture AND THEN playback the creation process in real time! This ones just Hot!