Uming and ahhing over the need for this site now, I think a rebrand with just resources is necessary :)

This lunch is amazing, quick, simple and you need very few ingredients: Perfect during the winter months.

1 litre vegetable stock. The way the meal is cooked means you have loads left over, I tend to save it for the next day.
I use this stuff although mines the vegan version (oher!) Its fantastic stuff, I had it in my cupboard for two years before I started using it in nearly every meal! (It makes the best risotto ever!)

Egg Noodles
Broccoli
Spring Onions
Pretty much any veg you like really. I use these two as they’re easily available to me!

Other things that if you have then thats great but you can leave them out.
Garlic
Chilli
Soy Sauce

Step 1:
Chop your veg and Mix your stock in a jug.

Step 2: (optional)
Put a touch of oil in your saucepan and add garlic and chilli, cook until it smells nice.

Step 3:
Add the stock to the saucepan and wait until its at a rolling boil, then add the noodles and veg. Cook for about 5 minutes or until the noodles are cooked.

Step 4:
Drain the mixture into a jug and place the noodles in your bowl. Measure out 300ml of the stock and add a dash of soy sauce, mix it up and pour over the noodles.

Step 5:
Devour.

I’m sure you could work out a way of adding meat to this dish, but I’m pretty much a vegetarian so I haven’t tried!

The best part of this meal is that I picked the broccoli myself, from manfriends fields!

I personally find the content to be fascinating, in both good and bad ways, but I’m not here to debate the ethics of photographing naked women who are high on heroin!

In regards to stumble I ‘like’ something if its funny or it makes me laugh but there are those times where you find an article that is interesting to you and you do ‘like’ it, but not in the way that you would click ‘I like this’. After all, if I did click it then I could very well end up with other similar websites cropping up in my stumbles in the future and its not like that particular website is full of documentry, journalism or topical issues!

What sort of things do you like when you stumble?

The book tells you the origins of the Sunday Roast and how to prepare high tea including what should be on the menu. Mrs Beeton talks about picnics and gives you a list of what to take for a picnic of 40 people! I’d love to get 40 people to come to a Mrs Beeton’s picnic!

I love the adverts in the covers too!

I’m sure theres actually no order to it! Still I’m thrilled that the hard work and actual paying attention to this layout has paid off! <3

I’m trying to be a good member and review other sites, so far I’ve written two and deleted three so really I’ve done five! I write a review but I don’t think I’ve quite worked out the lingo yet. I like bullet points but I should really write sentences. I seem to find myself repeating the same things.

• Bullet points need styling I’d rather have no bullets than the default black circles
• Line height is shorter than I am
• Font Size is indecipherable
• You have far to many colours in your text
• Your content doesn’t blend with your header at all – its like you stuck a random image on top of some text they don’t link at all
• Your content is all below the fold – you shouldn’t have to scroll to see it

Now if only I could copy and paste that onto most of the pages I’d be a great reviewer, but I don’t have the heart. If someones gonna put the effort into reviewing this site then I should do the same for theirs. It just might take me a few drafts to get there!!

I’m in two minds about this design. On one hand it has passed my 3hr and 24hr tests with flying colours. That is, if you leave it and go away for 3 hours and you still love it then your onto a winner. If you then start coding, leave it and come back 24hours later and actually continue to code it then it’s going to be a layout that lasts!

On the other hand – I hate those white and yellow tropical flowers! (Which by the way were made by Konamedia) But when I look at the layout as a whole, it does work quite well?

To follow the thread of Rhys’s latest post. One thing I have learnt with this new layout. persevere with the whole thing, posts, sidebar the lot!

Normally I just design the header and code the posts on a whim. This time I designed the sidebar and posts down to the very last detail. So not only was coding much quicker the whole site looks (I think) so much better :)

Let me know what you think in the comments!

This bit of code will display your geotagged flickr photos on a google map. I use this in the sidebar of one of my blogs.

You will need your own API key. Get yours here.

The geoFeed can be found at the bottom of your flickr page .

Once you have this information replace the sections in bold.

<script src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2&key=ABQIAAAA-W9uqIa2PP530F8zDw7ifhTU7ZIBfnHw4wAfJHH0RagnnLKqYRRMSJ_Im0zVLMtCE6XFGDom2iMmrA" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
var map;
var geoXml = new GGeoXml("http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/geo/?id=38083777@N08&lang=en-us&format=rss_200");
function loadMap() {
if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
var map = new GMap2(document.getElementById("map"));
map.setCenter(new GLatLng(51.26835954379726, 1.1254119873046875), 10);
map.addControl(new GLargeMapControl());
map.addControl(new GMapTypeControl());
map.addOverlay(geoXml);
}
}
</script>
<div id="map" style="width: 300px; height: 500px"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">setTimeout("loadMap()", 1);</script>

There is another way of doing it, simple go to maps.google.com and paste the georss feed url into the search box and click search, you can then embed it using an iframe. I couldn’t use this method on my other site because of some weird bug with adbrite!

Select standard as your experience level.

The code wp-o-matic gives you looks like the following:
*/20 * * * * /usr/bin/curl http://www.blah.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php?code=xxxxx

You only need the http://www.blah.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cron.php?code=xxxxx part. Paste that into the command to run field and select how many minutes/hours/days you wish it to run, then click save.

When you go to add another cron job the wp-o-matic job should have been saved and appear as “entry 1″ in the Cron Manager.

Depending on the type of database your using this is what your variable will look like.
$db_url = ‘mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename’;
$db_url = ‘mysqli://username:password@localhost/databasename’;
$db_url = ‘pgsql://username:password@localhost/databasename’;

In the case of my localhost install that line would be:
$db_url = ‘mysql://root:root@localhost/drupal’;

Drupal being the name of my database. Username and password are always root with mamp.