1 amount of chicken
1 amount of canned tomatoes, onions, peppers and other interesting veg.
1 amount of taco/fajita spice
1 handful of finest cheddar
1 sprinkle of jalapeños

Whack in the oven, spread evenly in the dish covered in all the sauces+spices you like, lid on – wait 2 hours @ an average temperature.

Eat in some wraps, or with rice, add extra cheese / salad and enjoy!

I’ve literally just made this recipe up, ive never actually tried it, but im gona find out what it tastes like tonight – as i discovered all of the above ingredients therefore making this a super low cost dinner for 2-4.

An image google for Mexican Chicken suggests what this COULD look like:

In the end i chose the iPhone 4 as a test for 7 days, as it was my eventual preference – pending whether the reported problems actually exert symptoms in my real world use or not. And they didn’t.

My reasoning, explanation and justification (yes, these days you MUST justify your purchase of an Apple product if you want to keep any kind of reputation as a tech fan) are all to follow once i get another spare minute.

..more to come…

First bit of “new” transport i’ve ever bought, just wish it rained less, and the shower in the office that i have to use on out of hours shifts was less parp. My Fuji Cross Comp:

So – as yet I’ve been doing the 7.1 mile ride in to work, and back again pretty much every day I’m working since acquiring the bike, plus the odd bike-ride. This takes roughly 35 minutes at reasonable speed, and 40-45 minutes if you relax. Easily speeds up my trip to the office, and it’s a lot more fun than the sweaty anti-social tube.

The cost saving is pretty awesome also – normally a tube pass for zones 1-2 is ~£100 a month but the bike is costing me ~£45 or something, saving me quite a bit – plus i sleep for longer, and get fit. win win all round.

I decided on a cyclo-cross bike for the added durability, slightly wider tyres and forks (for improved fork strength, compatibility and the option of semi off-road tyres), plus the extra set of cyclo-cross brakes (in the normal bike position) – which are very handy on London roads.

Oh, and as you’d expect you have a shower on arrival at the office – stops people’s bacon and onion armpits, turns out today storing a shower in the shower’s attached cloakroom is a faux pas according to the building landlord – mine along with ~10 other’s towels were confiscated today. Little do they know i broke in on my way home and got the bastard back.

Now i just need to find the perfect music for cycling in the morning (only one earbud in of course..). So far sad tunes make you go slow, trance you simply cant pedal fast enough to the beat and dnb makes you cycle dangerously – Any suggestions?

What an AWFUL ui and setup but my god is it a great bit of software. be right back, just gona browse a bit on my laptop, with the same mouse.. seemlessly. and then the laptop to the left of that one aswell.

Being a big fan of multiple monitors (currently running 3 on my desktop, and have been known to have had 4, plus 2 laptops and a spare PC.. so something around 7 going on at once), this now means i essentially have a software virtual KVM. KVMs are damn ugly and clunky, but this is cross platform, software based, and seemless!

(http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/)

starting to worry about the lack of security and misdirection of b2evo devs, plus a total lack of new functionality in any of the 2 major updates i spent hours applying. now i’ve finally converted everything to wordpress (god bless RSS imports, and lol @ all those idiots wasting hours trying to convert the database.. ). New design, new posts, new enthusiasm, and hopefully new mobile blogging soon.

Oh and in other news, i bought myself a nice fake watch in Asia, one of the higher quality ones with all working hands/dials/features and a decent strength strap and clasp. pretty happy with it for 1500Baht. Similar to: (but royal blue)

As for the new site – maybe some final image customisations and tone down the garish headers, and blammo, new refreshed website with new found enthusiasm for actually writing something. This is what happens when your country’s election process is so quick that you’re forced to endure hours of repeats of the same scenes afterwards and instead find yourself rebuilding mysql databases, php cms’s and templates.. all for *fun*.

Having now visited, i can report here is the dream:

and here is the reality:

Now whilst the second isn’t actually a picture of Maya bay, it is ko phi phi don. It seems nobody publishes any images of what Maya bay is actually like now.. kinda like all the photographers are clinging on to what the film advertised it to be (myself included, photos from camera to follow..) by hiding the true reality of hundreds of tourist boats, a beach 3m deep and over a thousand tourists preventing any kind of real enjoyment or nostalgia from the film.

Could be something to do with the first shift back at work and the lack of sleep in preparation. Could be something to do with the amount of time wasted looking for a new laptop (and coming up short for ideas as to what i’d like), or looking into what new phone i should get – as that happens to be up for renewal at the same time too. Or maybe it’s the return journey from Thailand that’s still not caught up on me properly.

Thailand photos to come soon no doubt, along with the 5 other albums i probably owe people from events i’ve photographed.

Sadly right now im considering macbooks and iphones as “the easy way out” of a decision, and the PC world isnt really putting up much of a fight to the contrary, for something thats powerful and good looking whilst still holds build quality. Bring on the new iphone too, whilst android does rock somewhat, it still doesn’t have the market leading app store that apple does, it simply trails iphone’s genuine apps with like for like unofficial copies of the same apps. I like the idea of using all the official ones, for blogging, e-banking, travel timetables etc etc. Oh, and i’m yet to find a handset that i think has a good enough level of build quality and style to warrant my 18month’s of expenditure. Sad really, i really want the open source/PC world to win, but i can really see myself moving to the dark side.

In a nutshell, Thailand is pretty cool – has some nice beaches, some great people and an entertaining tourist trail, but that’s all it really is, a huge tourist trail. I think what was left of its culture was sapped up years ago and now it’s more like one big show put on for the western tourists, to make them *think* they’re discovering this new world backpacker style, but are infact just drinking and partying with some flamboyant tricks thrown in (elephants, jungle, islands and beaches) to make it all seem real. It’s like magaluf with better beaches and a lot more scams.

The fact that bangkokscams.com exists says enough really, and whilst its not so bad down south, the scams are quickly replaced with old fat western men looking for thai brides, a potent sewage smell and hundreds of ladyboys looking to steal your money. Makes you quite embarrassed to be western, never mind British.

Oh and i got my replacement Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 (HTC) and while it does now work, it does still suck.

This has gone beyond ridiculous, the only adjustments to the bill were the removal of policies that make us in line with China for levels of ‘democracy’.

I’m sick of non-technical Politicians meddling their unqualified, inexperienced and total lack of understanding hands in the e-world’s business.

Get advice from the Experts, and LISTEN to it (just like you didn’t do with the drugs council.. who all resigned because you ignored them. well done).

This has gone beyond a lack of understanding and common sense, but is now starting to infringe on our rights! As the liberal democrats have pointed out – sites like Wikileaks (who today revealed american troops shooting innocent cameramen in Iraq) being closed down for whistleblowing.

This country is great, it’s leaders are not. Time for a change – who else worries it might get worse with conservatives(banker sleeze)?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/08/digital-economy-bill-passes-third-reading

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