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  • I had my own dreamtime story the other night, I dreamt the following

    A wise old man of the land was at a BBQ, enjoying a meal with friends and family, it was autumn time and the trees were dropping their leaves into the wind, which was blowing because it enjoyed tossing and turning the brightly coloured leaves every which way and that, the old man was tracking a particularly bright gold leaf with red trimming when he noticed a baby Koala being tormented by a big ol’ mean tarantula.

    The wise old man pondered the scene with this poor little Koala being shaken a great deal by this mean tarantula while he was trying to back away from the chain like web into the relative saftey of the big ol’ gum tree. The old man pondered this scene for a moment or three and finally raised his head.

    He said to the big ol’ gum tree’s “please stop dropping your leaves for a moment, the wind is playing with them too much and blowing feircely preventing the little Koala from reaching the safety of your branches”, the tree’s pondered this request for a moment and held their leaves tightly, the wind got bored and became little more than a gently puffing breeze, the baby Koala took the opportunity to crawl over to one of the safe branches in the big ol’ gum tree.
    The Tarantula glared at the baby Koala with a menacing look apon his face, the baby Koala found strength from deep inside and grabbed onto the chain like web that the tarantula had placed on the branches of big ol’ gum tree and shook like he had never shaken anything in his life before, the tarantula so shocked by the sudden bravery of this baby Koala lost his grip on his web, the wind who now had something to play with, feircly grabbed the tarantula? and blew him across the other side of the ocean. The sudden ferocity of the wind forced the wise old man to collect his family and BBQ things and return to the saftey of his home, he forgot to tell the big ol’ gum tree that he could drop his leaves again.

    The little Koala realising the diliemma this caused for the big ol’ gum tree began to eat his leaves to ensure that new ones could replace the old, keeping his covering of leaves fresh and beautiful, which is why today Gum tree’s don’t lose their leaves every autumn and Koala’s eat gum leaves, and a big wind blows occasionally to ensure that spiders cannot get too big to bother baby Koala’s again.

    This is a true dream I had one night after an enjoyable bushwalk, it is a beautiful land that we are blessed with in Australia.

  • YouTube – Jetta Friends “Like”

    I have to say that is like part of the reason I purchased my TDI. The current generation VW’s are like safe!

  • Pioneer Computers Australia – Products – Pioneer AMD Notebooks – DreamBook Power 17″/19″ – DreamBook Power M59

    I dub thee chunky. This is one rather big boned laptop, while impractical as a laptop, I consider it rather cool as a portable demo machine, games machine – something where you’d appreciate the 19″ screen and not really care that you were tethered to power.

  • Battle for Wesnoth

    Interesting looking game that is said to be good, fun and addictive. Free too!

  • Ford XR6 driver tells it like it is

    This a mighty fine example of how clear concise communication can get your message across. The medium in this case is vinyl and a rear windscreen of a Ford XR6.

  • 3tsp lemon juice
    1 cup natural yoghurt (we used european style [creamier])
    1tsp salt
    2 garlic cloves, crushed
    2.5cm fresh root ginger finely grated
    900g lean lamb fillet, cubed (we just bought lean diced lamb)
    4tbsp vegetable oil
    1/2 tsp cumin seeds
    2 bay leaves
    4 green cardamom pods
    1 onion, finely chopped
    2 tsp ground coriander
    2 tsp ground cumin
    1 tsp chilli powder (or more, to taste :))
    400g chopped tomatos
    2tbsp tomato puree
    2/3 cup water

    In a large bowl, mix together the lemon juice, yoghurt, salt, one crushed
    garlic clove and the ginger. Add the lamb and marinade in the fridge
    overnight.

    Heat the oil in a wok/pot/large pan and fry the cumin seeds for two minutes
    until they splutter. Add the bay leaves and cardamom pods and fry for 2
    minutes.

    Add the onion and remaining garlic and fry for 5 minutes. Add the coriander,
    cumin and chilli powder. Fry for 2 minutes.

    Add the marinated lamb to the pan and cook for a further 5 minutes, stirring
    occasionally to prevent the mixture sticking to the bottom.

    Add the tomatos, tomato puree and water. Cover and simmer for 1-1.5 hours.

    Mad props to the Suprah driving (perhaps this recipie explains the pants on fire ;)) Yiannis .

  • Ingredients:

    2x 150gm salmon fish fillets – scaled with skin left on
    1x packet “Ainsley Herriot’s – Citrus Kick Cous Cous”
    Green or Red Curry Paste

    Salad of some description

    Make 4x incisions (about 1/2 thickness of fillet deep) on each salmon
    fillet (skin side) rub 1-2 tsp of curry paste in to this and all over the
    salmon, put in fridge for 30minutues to 1 hour.

    In non stick pan stick the fillets under a grill skin side up on a medium
    high heat, while they cook (depending on thickness) prepare cous cous as
    per instructions.

    Stick cous cous on plate, shove fillets on top and toss some salad around
    the side. (Peel the skin from the fish if its cooked to perfection it will
    just peel away).

    Serve with a decent white wine (
    http://www.bugga.net/2006/04/06/margaret-river-watershed-sauvignon-blanc-2005/
    )

    Tasty and healthy as!

    M

  • This red wine is the perfect complement to antipasto and tomato based pasta dishes. Its not too heavy, but neither is it sweet and fruity, it has some refined grown up fruitiness about it, that is hard to describe. Anyways this is a keeper and goes well with food and friends (friends eating food, not for eating the friends ;)).
    M

  • Class 4 LASERS are the most powerful and dangerous class of lasers, and they are certainly not toys; the beam will burn flesh and retinas faster than you can realize it, and even diffuse reflections can be very dangerous. (with videos)


    This is just too geek cool. A home made laser that can hack through many things, the possibilities are endless, fun and possibly some what dangerous. Something to shove on the todo list!

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