my first gyoza

my first gyoza

Very easy and very nice. You get the wrappers from an asia market. The filling consists of beef, spring onions, cabbage, sake, soy sauce, litte bit of sesame oil, pepper. The sauce is: soy souce, sake, rice vinegar, ginger and red chili. Put some oil in a cold pan, add the gyozas, a glass of water, cover it, put on the heat and wait till they look good.

4 February 2007 · 1 min · Christof Damian

6000 km on a skateboard

Dave Cornthwaite rode 6000 km on a carbon fibre skateboard through Australia. I probably would have fallen on my face roughly 600 times.

22 January 2007 · 1 min · Christof Damian

Numero De Seguridad Social

Picked up my social security number today. Nobody in the office could remember how they got theirs, so I had to google a bit around: find your next “Administraciones de la Seguridad Social” office - bring passport - bring N.I.E. I went to my local office at C/Mercader 5, Barcelona. The lady at the desk was very nice and even spoke english. She was a bit surprised that I had a two year old N.I.E. and no social security number.

17 January 2007 · 1 min · Christof Damian

employed again

I see I have been really keeping up with this during my unemployment. Well, I did some freelance work. I started a new job yesterday. The job is splitted between two companies one standard web design company, where I will be technical director and one open-source startup, where I will be just programming. The programming language is tcl, which I never worked with before, but seems to be the choice of the openacs system, which we use as the base for the system. ...

11 January 2007 · 1 min · Christof Damian

unemployed

First day of unemployment! Though it didn’t feel like it, because I had to scan & sort flyers for krass.com, maybe I really skip that service next year. The weather isn’t nice today, I hope that this clears up for the sake of all the beach parties.

15 June 2006 · 1 min · Christof Damian