“A kind of weblogged almanac of assorted interests to keep my hand in with writing, SEO, design, ads, analytics, Gen’ AI and other technologies…”

  • Sweet Cherry Tomato and Sausage Bake

    Ingredients 2kg  cherry tomatoes 2 sprigs of thyme, rosemary and bay (each) 1 tablespoon of dried oregano 3 cloves of chopped garlic Good-quality Cumberland or coarse Italian pork sausage (12) Extra virgin olive oil Balsamic…

  • Chilli-Con-Carne in a rush

    A great quick Chilli recipe – if you have time, use the Chilli Deluxe recipe! Ingredients: 1 tin kidney beans, drained 1 tin chopped tomatoes. If you can throw in some whole tomatoes that have…

  • Chilli-Con-Carne Deluxe

    The Ingredients: 1 large onion or 2 banana shallots, chopped 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped 1 red chilli deseeded or keep half with seeds if you like it spicy 2 sprigs of thyme, leaves picked…

  • File types and codecs for importing to iMovie

    I’ve been messing around with video editing recently – it’s something I have never really looked at before as I have never had the power to do it properly, but one of the first barriers…

  • Putting customer data first…

    My next big project: Systematic communications strategy. We need to talk to all our customers at each stage of their relationship with us. We need to promote ourselves to different customer segments accordingly. We want…

  • Formula One

    It is astonishing how such a group of well meaning individuals can truly screw something up – I was looking forward to this as my family used to go to Donnington to watch the BTCC…

  • Ultimate Sausage Casserole

    Ingredients 8 Cumberland Sausages Onion (one large) Garlic (2 cloves) Peppers Mushrooms Butter beans (2x400g tins) Tinned Tomatoes (1 tin) Assorted herbs Chicken stock (300ml) The method: Grill the sausages and put to one side.…

  • Random music that made me smile..

    This is what happens when you mash the last 30 years of pop songs that all use the same 4 chords together! Properly random song by ‘The Axis of Awesome’

  • Spotify on the App Store? In a word…

    Update@ 04/04/2020:So, 11 years later and paid subscription models that remove the ads, the advent of high speed mobile connectivity, and a generation of people who have grown up streaming free music on YouTube and…


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