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May14

Camera stuff

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Camera stuff
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My camera has started to break down. I currently have a Canon Powershot A620 and it served me well for nearly four years. Currently, the memory-card bit doesn’t work properly. The card doesn’t click in and if I take it out the camera doesn’t recognise the card half the time I put it back. I’ve dug up the cable and now get the photos from the camera by the cable (a nuisance).

I looked into other cameras and now have my eye on the Canon Powershot SX20 IS. I like Canon, and have had a few in the past and like the menu and the way it works. This model seemed a good step up from the A620 but not yet as massive as a DSLR. I don’t have anything with DSLRs in general. And knowing me I’ll get sand on the sensor on the first day and ruin the camera because it scratches.

I won’t buy it just yet, probably in June.

May2

Geeking out with twitter and flickr stuff

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Geeking out with twitter and flickr stuff

Recently I found a php script by Chris Morrel which allows you to post photos to flickr (and get the correct flic.kr short url back) from Tweetie 2. I tweaked it a little to get used hashtags as flickr-tags and to have them removed from the title (the script uses the message as the title).

Right after: $tags = FLICKR_TAGS; if (TAG_WITH_HANDLE) { $tags .= ' @' . $_POST['username']; }

I added: preg_match_all('/#(\w+)/', $title, $matches); foreach ($matches1 as &$tag) { $tags .= ' ' . $tag; } $title = preg_replace("/#\w+/i", '', $title);

It worked as I wanted, so yay!

Oct10

Homemade white-chocolate-ginger-cheesecake with a sauce of caramel and sweet chili, and some chocolate sprinkles.

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Homemade white-chocolate-ginger-cheesecake with a sauce of caramel and sweet chili, and some chocolate sprinkles.
Homemade white-chocolate-ginger-cheesecake with a sauce of caramel and sweet chili, and some chocolate sprinkles.

200 grams cream cheese
100 grams white chocolate
1 teaspoon grated ginger
1 teaspoon gingerroot-powder (or more to taste)
1 tbsp sweet chili sauce (roughly)
1 tbsp caramel

Make biscuit bottom (I used readymade, happened to have it…)

Melt chocolate au bain marie, mix in cheese, put in cakeform. Layer over biscuit bottom, put in fridge for an hour or two.

Mix sweet chili sauce with caramel and drip over cake.

Trying to imitate the Wagamama version ;) It turned out slightly runny, but not too bad. Tips to firm it up appreciated.

(boyfriend said ‘it tastes cheesy’)

Sep3

Mouse near my house.

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Mouse near my house.
A mouse on my balcony.

It storms a bit today. Lots of rain and wind. I’ve decided to stay inside, apart from the quick trips with Nano. When I looked out of my window onto my balcony, I saw this little one.
It scurried about, probably looking for either food or shelter. Managed to snap a quick shot of it before it ran of because I scared it with a camera in its face.

It did come back a few minutes later though, trying to access the house. Hmm…