On the 20th December, Apple released a public beta of ‘Dashcode’. A scaled-down version of that to be included in OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Over the next few days, I will be seeing just how easy it is to use, and begin to scratch the surface of what it can do.
I’m no developer, I know a bit of C++ and FORTRAN, so this may help the average user to get started with makiing their own widgets for our favourite OS.
I received a copy of Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach this Christmas from my lovely girlfriend Xiaoyu, and have just finished reading it.
A delightful read, Jonathan Gull tells of hard work and the rewards therein. The religious tones to the book are an almalgamation of Karmic philosophies and Christianity, and talks of perfection being an goal being attainable through hard work. As you can probably tell, I haven’t discussed a book in a very long time, and am struggling to express my thoughts on the page.
I’ve started to take photos after purchasing a digital camrea (Canon IXUS 750) in June, and have of course discovered the wonderful world of Flickr. When stumbling through the interestingness page, I found a photo by Bonny Kang and fell in love with her photos.
She can capture food that makes your mouth water expectantly, and the pictures of her daughter are delightful. Check her out.
I’m a trainee Medical Physicist in the UK, a job that pays reasonably well when starting and will certainly be a worthwhile career with options for specialisation and progression. This having been said, I would very much love to set up my own coffee-house chain. To do this will require a lot of research and savings whilst not sacrificing my current job, I will attempt to post my progress, research and ideas here when I have the time; mostly for my own benefit so I have a place to see everything, and to seek advice from others much smarter and capable than myself.
Now, where to start….
My beautiful girlfriend had just submitted her UCAS application to the University of Birmingham, UK, to read Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics. This means that she may be coming to the UK in September. However, she is so incredibly intelligent that she’ll pass the exams for the French Grande Ecoles anyway so won’t have to come here.
Obviously I’ll be very pleased for her if her hard work pays off and she gets in, but I would like her to be a little closer than Paris. She’ll probably just go to Uni in France regardless.
Peking Shrimp
Well, in my infinite wisdom, I decided to really do a meal from my Ken Hom book properly, cutting no corners. I can now I live by Chinese supermarkets and can get the proper ingredients at decent prices (rather than Tesco’s). So I decided to cook Peking Shrimp.
Me and my wonderful assistant bought fresh large shrimp from the market, spent ages peeling, removing the digestive cords, cutting them like butterflies, battering each one, and then shallow frying them. The rice was perfect, as was the dipping sauce for the perfectly cooked shrimp, I even did prawn crackers, the plates weren’t to shabby either. We watched Memoirs of a Geisha, thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, and it tasted great.
Then she started to itch.
Then she went red.
Then a lump appeared on her neck.
Then the ambulance arrived.
She’s fine, the reaction wasn’t severe and she didn’t go into shock, but it’s really scary to see someone go like that in the space of a few minutes. It’d never happened before so I was right to call 999, but we we’re given antihistamines in A&E and were released within and hour and a half. Sorry to say that the normal waiting time was 2-3 hours, those people didn’t like us, some even had bloodied heads in bandages!
I know how to show a girl a good Friday night.