Monthly Archives: July 2005

Book: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Book: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Yes, it’s mostly just filler for the final book, but it doesn’t disappoint: if you enjoyed the first five, you’ll enjoy this one. Somehow, Harry has ended up being less of an annoying git in this book.

home now

that was a long day, but well worth it.

off to kapooka

Driving down to wagga wagga today to watch my brother “march out” after finishing basic training in the army. This is a new record for “early start” for me, I think.

Productivity Tips For Avid Blog Readers

Productivity Tips For Avid Blog Readers

spreading the good news

Thanks to my little brother, I’m enjoying a free boost juice drink, just for being me. If you have photo ID that says that your name is David (or Victoria), then you too can be enjoying a free juice drink.
Once I found out it was true, I SMS-ed all the Davids in my phone. Wish [...]

rowing machine

Did I mention I managed to ‘row’ 1km on the rowing machine in 4mins, 11.9 seconds? (It’s a bit of a competition I’m having with a friend)

iPod-trogdor

iPod-trogdor

Carr quits

[snail] NSW Premier Bob Carr quits “He said he would not ‘baptise’ anyone as his replacement” - a veiled reference to water restrictions that have worsened during his time at the helm?

kottke.org

kottke.org is listing a bunch of old classic links, like the dancing baby and the last page on the internet.

word of the day: lagniappe

Word of the day: lagniappe

new ibook

Another new ibook is out; now with Tiger.

dinner for chan

dinner for three

Originally uploaded by cafedave.

Every time I cook, I seem to forget something. This time, there were two things - check the quantities before you put the ingredients together, and work out how long the different vegetables will take to cook, so that you can steam [...]

Meme

Word of the day: Meme

word of the day: milquetoast

word of the day: milquetoast

Grindenstein

Bought at the festival: a Grindenstein

coffee festival 2005

coffee festival 2005

Originally uploaded by cafedave.

Jonathan, Kel and I went to a rocks coffee festival that was smaller than previous years, but still solid in terms of the number of people attending.
It was hard work drinking my sixth coffee, but I think that was a good [...]

he cooks lesson six

The night after lesson one, I turned up for lesson six; this time, we were learning how to cook seafood. A different crowd attended this lesson; they knew each other from some of the other lessons, they were more relaxed in the kitchen, and they talked more: it seems like there had been quite a [...]

book meme

Barb tagged me with this book meme; I did a quick count around the unit, and found 533 books: this is a little imprecise, as there were probably books that I couldn’t find hiding around the place. There would certainly be another two hundred books I’ve owned that stayed with mum and dad when I [...]

mal visits

another satisfied customer

Originally uploaded by cafedave.

Kel’s old school friend turned up - he’s in town for a course this weekend, so he had the chance to test out my culinary skills; I subbed chicken for fish (long story), and perhaps the unit was a little more smoke-filled [...]

Ethiopian version of Starbucks

The Ethiopian version of Starbucks