Recently I started using twitter, facebook and blogs more and I got a little bit annoyed that I couldn’t update those sites with my mobile phone. And then my digital camera died on me, which resulted in no new photos by me in the last couple of months. The final point which made me want to get a new fancy phone was me getting lost on Tibidabo without a GPS. ...
Simple gravlax recipe: two pieces of salmon with skin on dill (handful) sea salt (two tablespoon) crushed pepper corns (two tablespoon) sugar (one tablespoon) cut dill, mix with salt and pepper. Put one piece of salmon skin down on large bit of cling-film. cover with the mix, put other salmon on top. wrap everything tight in cling-film. Off into the fridge and put something on top to weight it down. ...
Today I finally finished digitizing all of my techno and house cassette tapes. It took me a little bit over two months. Here are some statistics: 290 “a” sides 278 “b” sides (sometimes the tapes broke after the first side) 12 tapes which unusable 41 tapes which turned out to be copies of CDs which are available to buy 5 tapes were copies of stuff I have also on CDs which are not available to buy 8 tapes had unreadable labels 249 GB in 16 bit 48khz WAVE files the whole list I probably still have some tapes flying around somewhere and my girlfriend also has some, but the vast majority of my music is digitized now. The music is mainly mixed techno and house DJ sets, from my friends like DJ Gomez, Motik and Nitin. A lot of sets are recorded from radio like HR3/HRXXL and Hithouse Stuttgart and in clubs around Stuttgart and Cologne. The most popular DJs are Sven Vaeth, Roland Casper, Richie Hawtin, DJ Hello, Dag, and Laurent Garnier. ...
Richie Hawtin recently started to post the records he is playing on twitter. He is using Traktor while he plays, which now has a new plugin which allows this functionality. Others have posted about this and what it means for techno music enthusiasts, DJs and the music industry. I think it is one of the few good applications of twitter and I decided to hack something together to display this information in a little bit nicer way. ...
New recipe for me, inspired by something I saw Rick Stein doing in some cookery show. Put clams in a hot pan, add a cup of white wine. Cover and cook until they opened. Drain with a colander, but keep the liquid. Discard the clams which did not open. Put some spaghetti or tagliatelle into a pot with boiling water and cook according to package instructions. Meanwhile put one sliced onion and some sliced garlic into a pan with olive oil and fry them until soft. I added some small and medium peeled prawns and some leftover cod pieces. Then add the clams with shells and the white wine liquid you kept. Finally add some aioli. Season with salt pepper and herbs. ...