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How To Slaughter A Goat (or Sheep) For Nyama Choma And Soup 21 Dec 2012 | 07:09 pm

So last Christmas we did a two-man nyama choma preparation stunt. See whenever we’re doing nyama choma (roasted meat to the uninitiated) there’s always three or more guys involved. This time it was on...

Jupiter and Venus in Planetary Conjunction 15 Mar 2012 | 02:04 am

Jupiter is back in the news. This time not for it’s proximity to earth, but for appearing very close to Venus in the night sky. I have been observing the two planets getting closer and closer together...

How to Add an Image Field to Buddypress Extended Profile Fields 11 Mar 2012 | 06:25 am

BuddyPress is a plugin that brings social networking capabilities to WordPress. It comes with features such as Friend connections, Activity streams (status posting), Private messaging, Groups and Foru...

How to ROM Dronix onto Huawei Ideos U8150 5 Oct 2011 | 09:08 pm

The ROM is the soul of your Ideos. It controls how the phone performs and also what hardware features are accessible. You can install a great many apps to transform your Ideos into any one of a wide r...

The Last Human Death 8 Aug 2011 | 07:48 am

So this guy Ray Kurzweil  believes that we can achieve immortality through backup. Yep, that’s right. Walk into a phone booth, pick up the receiver, dial your private number and a backup of your mind ...

Huawei IDEOS U8150 – The Little Android That’s Bigger On The Inside 18 Apr 2011 | 07:19 am

“Yes, it’s bigger on the inside”, to quote the words of Doctor Who whenever he’s addressing a first time visitor to the Tardis. Anyone regarding the Ideos from the outside tends to dismiss it. Despite...

The Secret to Immortality 12 Nov 2010 | 12:47 am

Take a trip down memory lane. Think about the people you remember most vividly. Especially those you haven’t met in a long time – and probably never will for the rest of your days on earth. Chances ar...

Rare Proximity of Jupiter to Earth 21 Sep 2010 | 01:54 pm

I’m something of an amateur star-gazer. I regularly look up at the night sky in wonderment, pondering the vastness of the universe and just how little we know about it. Looking at the stars is constan...

The Turbocharged Calculator 29 Aug 2010 | 01:44 am

I once came across a document by Harold Thimbleby describing why conventional calculators suck and what should be done about them to make them more natural to use. I was completely sold on his perspec...

Production Code Deployment with Mercurial Version Control 27 May 2010 | 08:52 am

I recently switched to Mercurial source control and it’s proving to be a lot more fun to work with than Subversion. However there is one SVN feature that I have been missing dearly: The ability to exp...

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