Hi There!

This is my blog. It's not very big and I don't post as often as I should, but I'm trying to remedy that... As a polymath or scanner I have a wide range of interests - some of which will find their way on to this blog.

I'm also at a bit of a career crossroads at the moment and am teaching myself PHP programming using the excellent CodeIgniter framework so that I can try to create a secondary income through affiliate marketing.

15 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

An awesome Christmas present for your teen and £200 – both for free!

OK, well not quite free, but this is a tactic that we have used previously when money has been tight at Christmas – and believe me when we say that it has actually saved us money every month. If you have a teenager, then you’ll likely know the frustration of constantly forking out cash for [...]

11 October 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Configuring apache2 to work with subdomains on Ubuntu 11.04

This post will be absolute techno-babble for most of my readers and if you don’t understand the title then it’s probably best that you skip the rest….  I’ll post something with a wider audience appeal soon, however I needed to document these steps for my own future use (as my memory sucks!) and hopefully someone may also [...]

26 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Chef Pépin – Deboning a Chicken Galantine Ballotine

I regularly watch foodie videos and have just stumbled across an absolutely awesome video of one of the great French masters, Pépin that I just had to post! I just wish I could de-bone a chicken as quickly and neatly as that…

23 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Snatch vs Star Wars = Snatch Wars (NSFW)

Those of you who have seen both Star Wars and Snatch are in for a treat with this excellent video mashup.  Enter Bricktop as Darth Vader and be prepared to be entertained. Warning:  This video is Not Safe For Work and should probably carry and 18 rating!

30 July 2009 ~ 0 Comments

New Kitchen Knives

I’ve been moaning for months and months (if not years) about my current set of kitchen knives.  My early Sabatier knife block set is now around 15 years old and has been so used and abused that the steel has worn smooth! I still remember finding them for the bargain price of £150 in a [...]