http://brett-reid.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:37:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This was sent to me today - it's a classic. http://brett-reid.com/2008/08/15/olympic-fever-hits-the-town/   I like making food that I can spend 15 minutes on and then leave for 1 or 2 hours while I get other things done. The Lamb Shank recipe and this one are exactly that. This chicken curry recipe will serve 3-4 people and is good for the next few ... http://brett-reid.com/2008/08/11/chicken-curry-with-basmati-rice/ The Gift Company approached Jackie and I to help them with a complete makeover of their (now archived) old site. The old site had served the previous owners of The Gift Company well but the new owners, Graham and Michelle, wanted to carry through the new branding onto the website. The ... http://brett-reid.com/2008/08/03/launch-of-the-gift-company-website/ Stonewall have Red Bull as a client and recently launched the Red Bull Big Wave Africa website along with the Red Bull Press Vault which is a local website listing articles and media on Red Bull events worldwide. The clip below shows some insane tricks performed by a helicopter during ... http://brett-reid.com/2008/08/01/red-bull-helicopter-tricks/ Snow is something we don't see often in Cape Town so when Jackie and I spotted snow on the mountains by Franschoek, we decided to take a road trip. We arranged for Wes and Zelna to meet us on Sunday morning at our place. I had planned the trip - ... http://brett-reid.com/2008/07/15/snow-in-ceres-cape-town/ I am not a huge fan of Corvettes but after watching this, I am tempted to visit their website. This video, recently released by General Motors, shows you how it performs at the hands of a pro around the 20.8km Nurburgring. The time was 7 minutes 26.4 seconds: NOTE: If the ... http://brett-reid.com/2008/07/14/fastest-zr1-corvette-time-at-the-nurburgring/ We booked to go on the Independence of the Seas in May 2007 so we had been waiting for our departure date of 25 May 2008 for a loooong time. I had also decided around December 2007 that it was time I took the next step (engagement) with Jackie and ... http://brett-reid.com/2008/07/06/our-trip-on-independence-of-the-seas-part-1/ I enjoy cooking, it's something that relaxes me. I can forget about the code and focus on creating something else. On the boat we ate quite a bit of 'Angus' Sirloin, I also had it a few times in the UK - seems Sirloin is a more popular cut up north. ... http://brett-reid.com/2008/07/06/pan-fried-sirloin-done-to-perfection/ A project I developed at Stonewall recently went live. http://www.eafricacommission.org. The website is built around Drupal 5.5 and is fairly generic. I find that Drupal works great for rapid development provided the company is not a startup (ie decisions are changing rapidly). I don't find Drupal flexible enough but for some ... http://brett-reid.com/2008/05/14/drupal-project-goes-live/ These are quite classic: http://davidwalsh.name/confessions-of-an-eccentric-web-developer and http://reinholdweber.com/?p=26 http://brett-reid.com/2008/05/14/confessions-of-xhtmlcss-developers/