Daniel Etherington

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Flour

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Main thread

Quick inventory of the flour I’ve got:
Strong white flour
Strong wholemeal flour of an organic persuasion
Stromg wholemeal flour ground at the watermill at Otterton in Devon
Four grained malted flour from Swaffham Mill in Cambridge
Self-raising white flour
Plain white flour
Tipo ‘00′ flour
Chickpea flour
Rice flour
Rye flour
Barley flour
White maize flour, aka masa harina
Buckwhea flour
And today’s new addition:
Millet flour
It’s all piling [...]

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Modern Warfare 2: party chat support in multiplayer

December 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Main thread

With Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360, Party Chat has been disabled for the majority of the multiplayer game modes, much to the irritation of players like me who prefer to just party up with a few real friends and chat, you know, like normal people who don’t want to be audio spammed by [...]

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The Great Gates of Moria

November 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Main thread

When I saw  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and the scenes involving Moria, one thing that struck me was – if Moria was such a major kingdom for the dwarves, how come the door was so small? I’ve read The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and the Silmarillion, but [...]

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Battle of the movie nice guys

October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Main thread

I recently caught Adventureland, the romantic comedy directed by Greg Mottola. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as a high school grad who has to get a job in a lame theme park when his family can’t afford to support his academic progress. He’s not just any high school grad though – he’s that US high school [...]

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Videogaming meets cake-making

September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Main thread

Two of my main hobbies indulgences seem to have a fairly lively culture of convergence out there, as recorded on t’internet.
Dr J Russell sent me this link to a blog entry entitle Console Cakes!, where the blogger has rounded up a load of pictures of cakes shaped and iced – with varying degrees of skill, [...]

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Free fruit, and class questions

August 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Main thread

It’s late summer already. Sheesh. Still, got to love this time of year for all the free fruit. Spent Sunday gathering elderberries, blackberries and wild plums and making stuff. Also loads of rowan berries around, but I’ve not experimented with them (you can make wine, and a jelly which is presumably like rosehip jelly).

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Sod's law strikes again

August 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Main thread

Friday – hot, dry and even summery. Sunday – warm and dry. Monday – warm and, so far, dry.
Saturday:

(Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the photo – and for holding the brolly while I flipped burgers…)
Still, at least we had plenty of cake:

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Blog spellchecker

July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Main thread

Oh the irony – the spellchecker on my blog doens’t recognise the word “blog”.

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Storming clouds, and other digital media revelations.

July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Main thread

The advent of new technologies is a slow process, with older technologies evolving till they reach a tipping point of commercial viability. Those moments make it appear like things are happening fast and suddenly, and that certainly seems to be the case now, with an apprent rush of new cloud media. What last.fm and spotify [...]

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Neighbours

July 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Main thread

A, B, C and D share a water supply, part of an intrastucture supplied by X. The water supply has a leak. While B and C are friendly, D won’t talk to C, and A won’t talk to B, C or D.  A and D barely even leave their houses. Indeed, the son of A [...]

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