January « 2004 « daily delusions

Newgods Server Frontpage

By Yashima, on January 30th, 2004

Ich hatte die Idee schon mal mit Daniel irgendwie diskutiert. Ihr koennt ja mal schreiben, was ihr davon haltet.

Die Idee ist: eine Art “Newgods Directory” wie bei Plinko.net von wo aus alle Blogs und Homepages verlinkt sind, so dass insbesondere auch wir wissen, was sich website technisch so alles tut auf newgods?

Inzwischen gibt es Minimum 4 Blogs (plus meine RPG Blogs), die Community, mindestens ein halbes Dutzend User Homepages, Seniorentanztee und aehnliches. Wir koennten bald einen eigenen Katalog aufmachen. Wer mal in die Tiefen des Filesystems hinabsteigt wird sehen wie viele Domains derzeit auf Newgods gehosted werden.

Das ganze koennte unter http://www.newgods.org/ liegen wo sich derzeit quasi nichts befindet, mangels Alternativen. Es muss sich lediglich um eine (vielleicht etwas huebsch gemachte) Seite handeln von wo aus man ueberall hingelangen kann. Vielleicht kann man die Links ein bisschen sortieren. Es folgt eine kleine (relativ willkürliche) Auswahl:
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The week my luck ran out

By Yashima, on January 27th, 2004

Yesterday the doctor diagnosed “acute hearing loss” on my left ear – not completely but it’s bad enough as it is. The cause: I believe the stress on Thursday in the office is responsible.

Today we brought my computer back to the store because on Sunday the mainboard died – that seems to . . . → Read More: The week my luck ran out

Statistics are lies

By Yashima, on January 27th, 2004

A long while ago I read a book titled How to lie with statistics and today mac posted go fish : Truth: it’s what’s for breakfast about a study saying that breast cancer wasn’t more common in women having had an abortion. Now I do not want to write anything on abortion right now because that’s an even trickier topic, instead I am going to rant about statistics.

The book I mentionned above basically says “Don’t believe in any statistics unless you made them up yourself!”
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Quick Tandoori Chicken

By Yashima, on January 26th, 2004

Here’s a very simple recipe for two.

- one boneless chicken breast
- some joghurt
- ready-made tandoori paste (I usually buy it at my local Chinese grocer)

Mix up the joghurt and the tandoori paste. Put the chicken in a casserole just big enough and cover with the joghurt mixture. Grill or bake in the oven at 180-200°C for 15-20 minutes. Serve with rice or salad. Pineapple is good with that as well. If you need to watch your calorie input just use low-fat joghurt. Even with normal joghurt this is a ‘harmless’ recipe.
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Cooking for the parents

By Yashima, on January 26th, 2004

For my Dad’s last birthday (in September) I gave him one of the infamous ‘gift certificates’ that people like to give out for birthdays and which are never redeemed. This time everything was different, I checked my calendar and noted that there was one week-end (last week-end) in January where we had nothing planned yet. So we invited my parents over for a ‘fancy’ menu.

I didn’t know how hard it would be to cook for my parents. I wanted to impress them but it shouldn’t become an expensive impression as well. My mother told me that onions and a lot of garlic wouldn’t be good for her. This information made choices even harder. Now I would have to make an “in-expensive yet impressive” three course menu without onions that should be healthy and not too high in calories.

Another restriction: no experiments. I have a hand for failing most spectacularly where I can get the best effects.
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