At least, it is according to the first edition of Cheekbone, online mag by the fans of the Mighty Boosh. I like the knitted pacman and ghosts. If only I could knit - drinking is somehow so much easier….
… if you are a geek called Moss or Roy
Finally the blog is back in action and … no new posts for the first couple of weeks. Not the best of starts.
However, tonight, things change. I have had heaps of things I have wanted to blog about - what to begin with?!- but will start with tonight’s dinner: chicken quesadillas, I have become addicted (via Google Reader subscriptions) to a variety of food blogs. Tonight’s quesadillas were inspired by a recent Cook Sister! post (cheesy vegetable quesadillas). Cook sister! is written by “a thirtysomething, born and bred South African” who now lives in London - and blogs about recipes for some very tasty food!
As does the author of Just Hungry and Just Bento, who writes a lot about Japanese food / recipes including some crazy bento ideas (who wouldn’t love a car-themed bento or boiled eggs molded into the shape of rabbits!).
Closer to home, I’m getting interested in the new Wagamama being installed on the Wellington waterfront (opening some time around late May 2008), and planning another round with the new pasta maker that Kat and Mike got me from a shop in Petone for $20 (bargain!). V pleased that the latest issue of Cuisine magazine has some in depth info on how to perfect the pasta making process. Especially in light of our first attempt which was v time consuming and disappointing as nearly more pasta ended up in the bin than on our plates (think lumpen glued together floury-eggy-goo balls!).
Yes, so the blog is back after a short hiatus. The reasons were initially the loss of my previous generous hosting arrangement followed by a bout of extreme laziness. I finally got round to the first step of getting things going again which was getting my UDAI and zone file. Hosting is now being supplied by Mr Smith of dollyfish.net.nz. The plan is now to import the old posts, get a decent theme and other tweeks, then rebuild the old box probably with vserver support, put it somewhere suitable, install zaapt on it and migrate to it at my leisure. How quickly these plans are executed is anyone’s guess.
Something I have been meaning to do for ages is setup this domain with google apps which was also waiting for me to get round to getting my zone file edited. I set this up over the weekend and can heartily recommend the service (at least until google (inevitably) turns evil).
Its all pretty standard google services but I can access these via my own domain eg: http://docs.gamma.net.nz and http://sites.gamma.net.nz. There is some customisability, like having my own logo and you can alias multiple domains. All in all nice and simple and a lot less work than maintaining my own MTA, webmail and whatnot like I used to. The one downside is you cannot sign up to google apps with an existing account, so you cannot point google app accounts at regular gmail accounts so obviously setting up an account takes a bit of time if you have to migrate things like contacts and mailing list subscriptions from an existing gmail account. I needed to do this anyway as my idea of using 3 gmail accounts was getting out of hand. This was a great opportunity to consolidate to one account. I have plenty of alias addresses so just about any *@gamma.net.nz address you can think of for me will work.