Author: John

Chicken Sneaka Masala part 2: Sneaking

This bit is easy. It’s just tikkafying the marinaded chicken. Only reason I’m doing a post about it is to reveal the Secret Incantation of the Sacrificial Potato. You’re going to skewer your chicken and need something to rest the skewers on so it’s suspended above the grill pan, right? Otherwise it sticks! So, get

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Chicken Sneaka Masala part 1: Marinade

This is a pretty standard ‘tikka’ style marinade. There’s nothing clever about it and it’s been nicked wholesale from just about every Indian cookery book I’ve ever seen. It is, however, going to give a bit of flavour for my soon-to-be-produced Sneaka Masala, so I’m including it here for completeness. As ever, getting everything laid

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Twelve

Here, at the end of everything, the sun never sets. The ocean meets the land with perpetual violence. Her constant assault increases her territory, inch by inch, century by century. Etude stood on the very brink of the world, two hundred feet above the raging torrent of Mother Ocean. The ragged edges of the crimson

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Chicken Sneakaloo

So we invented a curry last night. Couldn’t decide what to make so in the end we decided to make it up as we went along. And it turned out pretty good too. It’s fairly fiery, with lots of sour onion flavour but very nomworthy. Here’s what we did. Ingredients 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds 1/2

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Sticky Bits

There’s nothing more alarming than walking down the street minding ones own business only to find oneself caught in the middle of a hole-storm. I huddled in the doorway of a dingy looking greengrocer and shivered as millions of tiny holes hurtled earthward, making little popping noises as they winked out of existence on the

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Digital Economy Bill

The Mail: From: John Dow Sent: 18 March 2010 12:09 To: DEVINE, Jim Subject: Don’t rush through extreme internet laws John Dow 34 Random Street Anytown EH54 Dear Mr Devine I’m writing to you today because I’m very worried that the Government is planning to rush the Digital Economy Bill into law without a full

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The Survivors’ Club

I’ve had a few requests for this in an offline readable format, so here you are. Typeset in LaTeX and provided in lovely printable PDF. This will also display fine in most ebook readers. Download The Survivors’ Club The Survivors’ Club by John Dow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 UK:

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Metroid Prime (Wii)

Still plugging away at Prime. The game should have had these controls since the very beginning. I’ve only just ganked the boss guarding the morphball bomb (the sentry thing that shoots flames at the war wasp nest) and I took it down in a fraction of the time it took first time round on the

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Final Fantasy (iPhone)

This is the fourth platform I’ve played FF1 on – others being SNES, PS1 and GBA. I have to say, the iPhone version is easily the best. It seems to be a straight port of the very pretty PSP version but with the added advantage of well thought out touch controls. And it’s only a

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Paper Mario (Wii VC)

OK, so I sneaked a wee go while Tristan was playing Team Fortress 2. So, having woken up in a Goomba hut, I proceeded to go looking for Grampa Goomba, fell off a building, found a hammer in a bush, thumped some blocks, thumped more Goombas, then finally met the King Goomba and thumped him

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