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Hey, Bo Diddley...
2008-06-03 15:40:00 The great man died yesterday, aged 79. All over the world people are digging out their old Bo Diddley records, downloading his songs and searching him out on YouTube at this very moment. The planet moves to the Diddley beat. Rock on, Bo Diddley....
Cooking fresh field mushrooms again
2008-05-24 20:21:00 We just spent a fantastic few days in the south of Armenia, exploring old churches and ancient stone circles. On the way back we bought a bucket of field blewits from mushroom and herb gatherers on a grassy alpine plateau.... More About: Cooking , Mushrooms , Fresh , Field
Sample code for creating redirect pages
2008-05-23 20:39:00 Here's the html code for my home page. The URL has to be substituted for that of each page to be redirected. It took me a long time, but it worked. More About: Creating , Code , Pages , Redirect , Sample
Meta refresh redirects to a new home for the old dog...
2008-05-22 15:15:00 That's it. I now have my very own kennel after a week of writing HTML script with redirect tags for each page of my site. Which means the tom yam tofu recipe still isny up...but the move to a new domain was more important...I had to get it right. More About: Home , Refresh , Meta
Tom Yam beansprout
2008-05-13 10:59:00 Or Tom Tom Mushroom....Yum Yum baby corn - whatever. Yesterday I made Vegetarian Tom Yam soup based on a quick 'cafe' recipe I got from a guy in Thailand and you know what It was really good - tasted just like his! Yum Yum fast food...
Just downloaded Nine-inch Nails Slip for free
2008-05-09 10:46:00 And I think it's the biz, so here's a link. Reminds me I also wanted to mention Audacity multi-track recorder at some point, so I'll do that today as well. And the vegetarian connection? Well, here's one veggie that listens to NIN and uses Audacity.. More About: Free , Nine Inch Nails , Nails , Inch , Slip
Lean, green Macbean
2008-05-07 10:24:00 Spring has sprung and everything is green...including the Macbeanoblog. And on that theme, here's a link to recipe for a fat-free, low-calorie spring green chilled soup - go green and get lean with Ashy Macbean... More About: Green , Lean
Week six of the Macbean low-calorie diet..
2008-05-06 13:01:00 Sveta has lost 5 kilos and I've lost.....none.... More About: Diet , Week , Calorie
You know you're back in Armenia when....
2008-04-26 18:33:00 ...some arsehole reverses into you while you're trying to cross the road on a green light. More About: Back , Armenia
Fancy a Chinese cake?
2008-04-24 20:23:00 Check out what's on offer in Hong Kong supermarkets.... More About: Chinese , Cake , Fancy
Goji berries
2008-04-23 10:14:00 I impulse-bought a sack of these small, pink berries in a health-food shop in Exeter. They're meant to be full of good things and that's just what I need at the moment. I'm back on a health-kick-detox-getfit trip, after a month of doing the opposite. More About: Berries
The story of Popeye the tree-frog
2008-04-12 11:02:00 I'm going to be checking my spinach leaves carefully before stabbing a fork into them... More About: Story , Frog , Tree , The Story , Tree Frog
FastStone free image editing software deserves a plug...
2008-04-03 09:45:00 So far this is the best free image editing software I've found on the web. It's the reason why I've been uploading so many new photogalleries lately. I found the site a few weeks ago and after testing out the software I want to share my discovery.... More About: Software , Free , Editing , Image , Plug
Chocolate, falafel and beer - a recipe for good cheer!
2008-04-02 13:36:00 If Fassbender and Rausch had another partner, they would be 'the three chocolatiers'. But they don't..and that's probably not how the word is pronounced anyway. All the same...their chocolate is magic! More About: Recipe , Beer , Cheer , Chocolate , Good
Vegetarian Sushi in Berlin
2008-03-30 23:35:00 We've had Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, Italian and Lebanese veggie food...but the best so far has been Vegetarian sushi and pad thai in Papa No's restaurant... More About: Berlin , Sushi
Sunny Spandau
2008-03-26 10:49:00 We spent yesterday at Spandau, site of the citadel that once held a toxic gas and biological weapons research base but, contrary to popular belief, never Rudolf Hess.... More About: Sunny
An Easter Sunday stroll in Treptower park
2008-03-24 11:22:00 We made good use of our 7 day transport passes yesterday. As most things were shut in the centre, we headed out of the city for a walk in the park. More About: Easter , Sunday , Park
An afternoon tipple on Kurfurstendamm, with live music...
2008-03-23 11:04:00 The weather was worse yesterday than it had been the day before, but there are ways of combating the cold.... More About: Music , Live Music , Live , Afternoon
Easter in Berlin...freezing our eggs off...
2008-03-22 11:11:00 Got everything uploaded to the cookbook and had a good look round the centre of Berlin . Great, but it's COLD here! More About: Eggs , Easter
Yerevan to Munich to Berlin
2008-03-20 13:10:00 ...and arrived without our luggage. It's in Munich and will, we have been assured, arrive at our hotel shortly. It's Lufthansa, so it shouldny be a problem. What has been a problem is trying to update my cookbook.... More About: Berlin
Buckwheat sprouts? Not for me, it doesn't..
2008-03-18 15:43:00 I was a bit disappointed yesterday when it became apparent that my second attempt at sprouting buckwheat had failed, but then something nice happened in the evening....I found Iberica rice in the supermarket...just the thing for a vegetarian paella.. More About: Buckwheat
Buckwheat sprouts and Happy Saint Patrick's day...
2008-03-17 09:36:00 I've been trying to sprout buckwheat, but I couldn't get it to work. I found this great website and now I think I know what I did wrong and while I was searching I noticed that Google had put shamrocks all round their logo... More About: Happy , Saint , Buckwheat
Jerusalem artichoke soup
2008-03-14 21:16:00 The experiment has been done and the results are in. And what did the panel think? More About: Jerusalem , Soup
March is Animal Aid vegetarian month
2008-03-14 10:37:00 And that means a vegetarian easter...and vegan easter eggs and all that kind of stuff... More About: Vegetarian , Animal , March , Month
Google's 'wacky new office'
2008-03-14 09:40:00 A slide to the cafeteria and fireman's poles between floors...I'm just wondering what Google's equal opportunities and diversity policy must read like....I mean what do you do if you get around in a wheelchair? More About: Office
All quiet in Yerevan
2008-03-13 13:09:00 Or so it seems...there's a lot of censorship in place, so it's hard to know what is really going on. But it looks quiet.... More About: Quiet
Sunday in Yerevan, Armenia - the morning after the night before
2008-03-02 12:45:00 A state of emergency was imposed just after my last post around midnight. Shortly after that, the streetlights were turned off and the guns went quiet. More About: Night , Sunday , Morning , Armenia
Update on the situation in Yerevan
2008-03-01 20:04:00 It's Saturday night in Yerevan city centre but it's eerily quiet here. No cars on the streets, no kids laughing and shouting. We can hear what sounds like gun shots and explosions in the distance. More About: Update , Situation
Political protest in Armenia
2008-03-01 10:23:00 Woke up this morning to see a gang of policemen chasing people around our yard and beating them with batons. Guess thats the end of the peaceful demonstrations. More About: Political , Armenia , Protest
Vegetarian gastronomical delights in the Caucasus
More articles from this author:2008-01-26 18:39:00 Yes, we're back, but only for a short while. Landed in Yerevan about a week ago then took a trip up to Tbilisi. The food was fantastic at both ends... More About: Vegetarian , Caucasus 1, 2, 3 |
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