Chilli Con Carne

Nothing complicated here – no weird and wonderful chillies that you need to travel 50 miles to buy. All off the shelf stuff, but tastes amazing and gets better after a couple of days. If you decide to make a huuuuuuuge pot of it, either portion it and freeze it or heat the whole pot

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Now Playing

There’s a now playing page. Up there, in the middle of the top navigation thingy. Gonna keep that up to date with what I’m doing, methinks.

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Too many games!

It’s getting ridiculous. It really is. After my prolonged ennui – in part caused by a lack of anything new and interesting and in part by my ridiculous Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate obsession – I’ve found myself up to my eyes in amazing titles. Admittedly, this is at least partly down to the magnificence of

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2014 in review

Well, it’s that time of the year, folks. That time where I blab on endlessly about my favourite stuff that I discovered in 2014. As ever, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s stuff that was actually released in 2014, just that that is when I discovered it. Though obviously some if it actually is new. First, though, the year

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Destiny! Destiny!

There is no escape for me!   Anyway, I caved and bought a next-gen console (in addition to the Wii-U -.-). Usually, I need a critical mass of games I really want before I’ll splurge on a console, and I never got there with the PS3. So far, though, must haves on the PS4 for

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Spicy Pulled Pork in the Slow Cooker / crockpot

[EDIT] So, I’ve found that it’s generally easier to get a 2kg chunk of shoulder than a 3kg one, so I’ve tweaked the recipe over the last few months. It turns out that the only thing that changed, other than the pork-weight, was the amount of salt – reduced from 3tbsp to 2tbsp. Results are

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Still think the BBC is impartial?

So, at a presentation for the international media yesterday, Nick Robinson of the BBC asked Alex Salmond a question. Not only was it answered comprehensively, but it must have made some slightly uncomfortable listening for Mr Robinson. Here’s what happened. As state broadcaster, the BBC obviously had to cover this. Here’s what they broadcast.  

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Sometimes you need a smile

It’s been a while since I posted anything. I think social media is largely killing the blogs of people like me who generally don’t have much to say 🙂 But I found this picture and it made me smile, so I’m gonna put it here in the hope that it makes you smile too. Peace

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A New World

So, with the demise of my previous Dwarf Fortress due to an unexpected flooding and all the carp-related issues that brings, it’s time to generate a new world to try out all the shiny new weirdnesses that 0.40 brings. Here’s the world in question. Wish me luck – I’m going to have “fun”.

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OUTAAAAGE!

So, nelefa.org fell off the internet last night, for the first time since 1997. This was thanks to the company hosting the domain screwing up the renewal process by, well, not renewing :-/ As their tech support department are only around during UK office hours, this resulted in the domain vanishing until lunchtime today. This

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