I gotta hand it to her, Jules Clancy is one simple Aussie! She has compiled a cook book full of delicious recipes that can be made with 5 ingredients in under 10 minutes. That’s right. 5 ingredients. 10 minutes. Even the laziest and most kitchen-incapable of us can make awesome and delicious meals with little effort. She has made this cook book free on her website in PDF format (I personally got it printed and bound at Kinkos cause it’s something you are gonna want to keep). I suggest you check it out. Granted some recipes are a bit of a stretch (celery and cheese for example. Your ingredients? Celery and some cheese), but most of them are pretty simple to make, and they are healthy. So give the minimalist kitchen a spin, download the e-cookbook from her website. And while your at it, check out the rest of her site for some more recipes, tips, and info regarding minimalist home cooking.

I’ve watched too much of the World Cup. How do I know? I can still hear the vuvuzelas going off in my head late at night when I’m trying to sleep…

As seen on Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/comment/24194767/

@3:00pm

Customer: “Hey, are you open?”

Me: “Sorry sir, we open at 4:30.”

Customer: “Not even for a drink?”

Seriously, people conveniently forget their brains at home whenever they go out.

Really Metra? I mean, REALLY?

And it is waiting to be remixed

Artist: Stratosferic Band
Title: Splashdown
Album: Splash
Year: 1977
Produced by: Voom Voom Music.
Arranged by: Svengile.
Engineered by: Mr. Gatto & Co.

Did this about 3 months ago but what the hell, it’s still share-worthy: I don’t know how to play piano, but this is my first attempt to recreate a popular song. I’ve been messing around in my “studio” for some time. It isn’t perfect but it’s a start. Hopefully with some practice, practice, practice I can start making my own tunes sometime next year!

Due to the slowness of my previous host (Dreamhost) when it comes to WordPress, I had to move this site to a more reliable host. Funny thing was that the solutions Dreamhost had on its wiki to make WordPress run at a reasonable speed wouldn’t work for me. The plugins they recommended wouldn’t install because of the server settings! Dreamhost support simply told me that my site was running ‘within normal parameters.”

Anyway, the migration worked with the exception of my theme. I had made the theme a looooong time ago, and it was designed to work with WordPress 2.6. We’re now at 2.9.2 and 3.0 is just around the corner. Granted I was running 2.9.2 with that theme before the host transfer, but it wasn’t supposed to work like that. Who knows what crazy code and loopholes the site itself exploited. The bottom line is that I gotta rework the entire theme from scratch, which shouldn’t be a huge problem considering I’m not designing something new. The only bitch is that I had built it upon Theme Toolkit, which never got updated to support WordPress beyond 2.6. Ah well, I gotta dedicate at least a full day to this. Maybe Friday so I can drink away the accumulated madness in the evening?

UPDATE 02/26/10@6:52pm: Turns out that my theme is immortal. Cache plugins seem to be the issue, being it Hyper Cache or WP SuperCache. Oh well, I can live without cache for now!

Apple disappointed the world today with its terribly named new product the iPad. With all the hype surrounding it and Apple promising that it will bring some revolutionary ways of interaction, I was expecting some Project Natal-like tech to be used in controlling this thing. But we were graced with an oversized iPod Touch and I don’t see crowds forming outside the Apple Stores nationwide for this thing. And no, I won’t tell any iPad tampon jokes since the web has exploded with them! However, I do want to touch upon an observation I made about the iPad. It’s taken me all day since its unveiling to put this to words cause it’s a bit of an abstract idea but I’ll do my best (hell, I even dictated my thoughts and recorded them to my iPhone in order to piece them all together!).

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not a hater of the iPad. It’s just not something I’d go get and not something “magical and revolutionary” as Steve Jobs proclaimed. It does however shed some light on a potential gaming revolution that could be on the horizon. Now no gamer is gonna go snag one of these because it’s a gaming machine. But one cannot help but to think of the door that this device has opened for the industry. Imagine the next generation handheld gaming devices. What do you envision?

What if Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft jumped onto the iPad concept and took it to a whole new level when it comes to gaming. Imagine a Microsoft iPad-esque product that has a front Natal camera. Just set the device on your lap and use your hands as guns or a steerig wheel and see the results in front of you. Imagine using gestures to go between screens, similar to Minority Report or Gamer. Juice up a thing like this with the appropriate hardware and you can be looking at a whole new gaming experience. Imagine bringing the device home only to transfer what’s happening on it’s screen to your console/TV in real time!

Apple’s focus with the iPad isn’t gaming but it does help provide inspiration and innovation into what the next generation of handheld gaming devices could be like. Sort of how mini-PCs were ahead of their time yet provided the groundwork for netbooks, the Apple iPad could be laying the groundwork for the PSP 3 or the DSi 2.