Gustible - under the rubric of [$_SELF]

Gustible header image 4

Entries from June 2008

The Death of the website ?

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I am an avid user of Friendfeed. I am constantly monitoring it, and constantly posting to the the service. Yet I hardly ever post directly to Friendfeed. I use a desktop client called feedalizr to monitor my Friendfeed subscriptions and feedalizr allows me to seamlessly post to Twitter, flickr. Friendfeed and Jaiku from my desktop. [...]

[Read more →]

Category: Technology · Web

WordPress static page templates

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments

A quick heads-up on wordpress “static” Pages – it is not entirely clear from the documentation how one is supposed to structure the template in order to get content to display properly when a page is created based on the template  – the problem is what template tag to use to display the user edited [...]

[Read more →]

Category: Technical

Pasta Recipe 1

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

This is always a winner, and takes only about 20 minutes to make – Lindy is particularly fond of it…
So – main ingredients:

Ribbon pasta (tagliatelli, fettuccine, whatever)
Bacon
Chillies
Cream – full cream, fool. No – yoghurt is NOT the same.
Either goat’s milk or a blue veined cheese
Some spring onions
Garlic, of course
Tomatoes (nice, ripe, red, real ones)
Mushrooms – [...]

[Read more →]

Category: Food

Notes on upgrading

June 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I very recently (3 hours!) ago upgraded both my WordPress and Gallery installations on a Godaddy hosted account.
Amazingly – it went well, with hardly any hiccups. Here are a few random things to bear in mind – some are really silly, but they may save someone a bit of time.
First thing – and this was [...]

[Read more →]

Category: Technical