blog.the-kid.org http://blog.the-kid.org billythekid speaking now! Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:00:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en Weetabix Week - Day 4 - Melted Cheese http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/14/weetabix-week-day-4-melted-cheese/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/14/weetabix-week-day-4-melted-cheese/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:21:00 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=387 I apologise for being a day late with this.

Today - Melted Cheese

Recipe - Take a block of cheese, slice it - one slice per ‘bix. Put it under the grill until it’s melted over it. Salt ‘to taste’.

Taste Rating - 1 :arrow:

Result - Oh God, this was a form of torture. Look, I’ve even found religion. I’m sooo disappointed with this result. I thought this would be an easier one of the week, I like ‘toasted cheese’ after all. Here’s some news, Weetabix is not bread. I know, shocker eh. After just 2 bites I decided it was way too dry to get down the throat and so Weetabix with salted, melted cheese became Weetabix with salted, melted cheese and milk…

…which is when the trouble really began. I struggled through the rest of the first one but my guts were churning. Disappointingly I couldn’t finish the bowl and this time I was only eating 2!!

I have learnt however that moisture is definitely a requirement of the Weetabix experience so with this in mind…

Tomorrow - lentil soup :grin:

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/14/weetabix-week-day-4-melted-cheese/feed/ Weetabix Week - Day 3 - Smoked Ham and Warm Milk http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/12/weetabix-week-day-3-smoked-ham-and-warm-milk/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/12/weetabix-week-day-3-smoked-ham-and-warm-milk/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:40:09 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=378 Today - Smoked Ham and Warm Milk



(apologies for no sound)

Recipe - Get some smoked sandwich ham, cut a slice or 2 into little bits, throw those on the weetabix. Warm up a mug of milk and pour over the weetabix/ham combo.

Taste Rating - 2 :???:

Result - This was nasty. I’ve not had warm milk in my weetabix for years. Used to be the only way I ate it but when I started working at 16 I needed a fast breakfast as I rolled my sorry ass out of bed with 10 minutes to get to the next town, usually. Anyhow I’ve eaten it cold ever since really. So the trip down memory lane was the best part. Then, the smoked ham. Oh god that was nasty. The texture is ok but when that smoked flavour comes through it’s just something you know doesn’t belong. If you are thinking about adding smoked ham to your breakfast cereal :?: take my advice and don’t. Just, don’t.

Tomorrow - melted cheese

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/12/weetabix-week-day-3-smoked-ham-and-warm-milk/feed/ Weetabix Week - Day 2 - Banana http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/11/weetabix-week-day-2-banana/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/11/weetabix-week-day-2-banana/#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:03:28 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=372 Today - Fresh sliced Banana and Milk(cold) - dusted with cinnamon sugar

Recipe - Peel a banana, slice it over the weetabix, sprinkle some of yesterday’s cinnamon sugar over it, pour on cold milk.

Taste Rating - 9 :grin:

Result - Had always been dubious about fruit/cereal combos. Only recently have I fallen for Alpen so this was still a departure from my ’safe zone’. It’s brilliant. :eek: I should have done this years ago. Banana might find itself on my regular weetabix menu.

Tomorrow - smoked ham and cold milk :shock:

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/11/weetabix-week-day-2-banana/feed/ Weetabix Week - Day 1 - Cinnamon Sugar & Milk http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/10/weetabix-week-day-1-cinnamon-sugar-milk/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/10/weetabix-week-day-1-cinnamon-sugar-milk/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:35:42 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=369 I’ve decided to do a weetabix week. I’ll be posting each day with the results…

Today - Cinnamon Sugar and Milk(cold)

Recipe - Mix some granulated sugar with a little ground cinnamon, sprinkle the resulting mixture over the dry weeetabix, pour on cold milk.

Taste Rating - 8 :grin:

Result - This was letting myself into the task easily. I love cinnamon sugar on most anything, I’ve even been known to use it in my coffee. I love my weetabix like this.

Tomorrow - banana & milk(cold) (perhaps with more cinnamon sugar dusted over it! :razz: )

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/10/weetabix-week-day-1-cinnamon-sugar-milk/feed/ 6 thangs http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/04/6-thangs/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/04/6-thangs/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:52:02 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=358 This post has been sitting in my drafts for some time. I found this really difficult in fact. I hate memes as a general rule, however…

I’ve been tagged by Misssy to write 6 little known facts about me.

  1. Sad songs make me cry :cry: - no really. I have songs on CD in the car that I sing along to and still get weepy at them. I’ve probably heard them hundreds of times! Luckily I haven’t crashed as a result of this. :lol:
  2. I love Cowboy stuff(no surprise there - excepting Brokeback Mountain :oops: ) but until this summer just gone had never ridden a mechanical bull :shock: - I still have never ridden a horse although I have worked at a rodeo! :cool:
  3. I’ve paid for training and had added to my license LGV capability but I’ve never done the course! It runs out this year! :???:
  4. I have one tattoo on my arm, it’s a cowboy hat, nobody realises this and always needs to ask. :?:
  5. I eat unhealthily - salt/cheese/eggs - all good! I never put on weight, :razz: it’s going straight on my arteries! :arrow:
  6. I have a slight OCD problem, but not in a tidy way. I’m not obsessive about cleaning the place. I am obsessive about the order of the dishes on the draining board in fact even before washing they need to be properly arranged on the side. I am obsessive about the way the tins and condiments are arranged in the cupboard, there is a shelf for sauces, don’t put them on the shelf for drinks. I need to sort the entire washing basket into white/light/red&pink/dark before I even begin the washings. I can’t watch my girlfriend use the computer or I get annoyed by her lack of use of shortcut keys and mono-spaced fonts. :mrgreen:

I’ll continue the tag-fest by tagging rantz, narissa, nexy and Jayne.

:grin:

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/11/04/6-thangs/feed/ Hat-Trick! http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/31/hat-trick/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/31/hat-trick/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:09:56 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=359 Yeeehaw! For the 3rd year running, count them, 1 2 3, thekid has scooped the best costume prize for his creations in the school Halloween parties.

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I’m still having trouble managing to break into the higher-end though. Billie-Jo has yet to win the prize. Danielle and Jordan have taken 3 & 2 respectively.

Billie-Jo as Bertie Bassett

Jordan as TMNT Leonardo - FrontJordan as TMNT Leonardo - Back

Danielle as Statue of Liberty

Next year I’m taking all 3 dammit!!

:grin:

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After my last post Ally(the owner of Aberdeen Blogs) did a little tweaking of his own.

The Results are quite funny!

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/28/roflmao/feed/ Who The Crap Are This Shower? http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/24/who-the-crap-are-this-shower/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/24/who-the-crap-are-this-shower/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:53:43 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=350 I get annoyed when I find my stuff around the internets, but wtf is going on here.

It’s like they’ve just taken the Aberdeen Blogs feed and stuck it on their results page. Any of you lot ever submitted your blog to them? I know I haven’t.

I’m about to send an email to them to remove my blog from their results. Fuckers. I never once told them I was from Aberdeen.

If you want a blog finder might I suggest the one I made instead!

[edit]AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…

Your message

Subject: Site Removal Request

was not delivered to:

enquiries@ukplus.co.uk

because:

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Subject:
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Date:
Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:56:39 +0100
To:
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Please remove all *.the-kid.org references from your site. I have never submitted any of my sites to your search engine and request that the-kid.org be blacklisted.

Thanks

Billy ***** (Owner the-kid.org)
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The internet is supposed to make things easier! Screw it, I’m going to bed. I’ll get these buggers on Sunday. :mad:

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]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/24/who-the-crap-are-this-shower/feed/ Aberdeen Blogs - Quote of the Week http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/23/aberdeen-blogs-quote-of-the-week/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/23/aberdeen-blogs-quote-of-the-week/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:40:50 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=339 I noticed MisssyM runs a ‘comment of the week’ in her sidebar (in fact I made it on to it once!) so in a similar idea I’m starting the Aberdeen Blogs Quote Of The Week (for evermore to be referred to as the ABZ-QoTW)

I’ll make a post with my particular favourite each week and invite ratings on your opinion of the choice. Also leave suggestions for the next quote of the week in the comments - in case I miss a cracker.

So here is my first nomination…

Liam Byrnes on the ‘Vatican’ Board Game came away with this peach…

(somewhat dramatic I know, but such is my swooning teenage girl nature when faced with board games which include adopting the role of an aspirational cardinal)

:grin:
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/23/aberdeen-blogs-quote-of-the-week/feed/ Congratulations http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/18/congratulations/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/18/congratulations/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:24:37 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=333 I want to take this opportunity to wish two of my favourite Aberdeen Bloggers congratulations on tying the knot today.

So Matt and Jayne may I wish you the very best of health and happiness in your new lives together.

Sorry I can’t be there in person tonight to help you celebrate but thanks for the invitation, I’m there in spirit!

There are very few bloggers I’ve actually met in person from ABZblogs but these two are the nicest people you could ever hope to have the pleasure of spending time with and thoroughly deserve nothing but the very best wishes.

Congrats guys

[edit] Jyll’s put up a pic on her LJ[/edit]

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/18/congratulations/feed/ Technoligical leader in the UK! http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/18/technoligical-leader-in-the-uk/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/18/technoligical-leader-in-the-uk/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:34:07 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=327 Always one for shameless self-promotion I stumbled across this today.

http://www.wikio.co.uk/blogs/top/technology

and in case it’s already scrolled into obscurity by the time you get there here’s a snapshot:

that’s position 99 in the whole UK baby! Yes, obviously posting on lighting fires and the incompetence of Aberdeen City Council are what does it for geeks in the UK these days! In fact on the front page of this blog as I write this the only tech posts I can see are the paypal debit card(which is more finance?) and the one about my friend’s VPN!

Still, where’s your blog? :razz:

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/18/technoligical-leader-in-the-uk/feed/ Use A Newspaper http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/17/use-a-newspaper/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/17/use-a-newspaper/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:09:05 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=322 I’d forgotten all about the technique but after lighting a successful fire last night with nothing more than a bit of paper and a match I can confirm that a newspaper held across the front of the fire so that most of the fireplace is covered is a brilliant way to draw the flame!

After going to Mary Leigh’s the other day and watching her do it, it tingled a deep memory somewhere of my mum doing likewise when we were very young, before the central heating was installed.

There’s something extremely satisfying about lighting a fire, perhaps it’s a man-thing, something primitive. It’s great to do it chemical/fire-lighter free even more!

So yeah, I haz firez - hear me roar!!!! :cool:

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/17/use-a-newspaper/feed/ Hehe http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/16/hehe/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/16/hehe/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:07:59 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=320 This made me chuckle.

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/16/hehe/feed/ Paypal Debit Card http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/16/paypal-debit-card/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/16/paypal-debit-card/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:03:24 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=317 Don’t get too excited!  Today I spent a while trying to register for the Paypal Debit Card. Unfortunately and after some searching I found that they don’t offer it to UK Paypal customers, in fact any non-US Paypal user is exempted from the benefits of the Paypal Debit Card.

The closest thing they have for UK users is the Paypal “Top-Up Card” - a poor comparison. In order to use this card you need to first apply a balance through the Paypal website(or for a fee from a PayPoint) then it CHARGES you to use it!!!

Come on Paypal! I soooooooooooooooooo want a Paypal Debit Card to the point that if I did have one I would give up on UK banks completely, favouring the instant access of my Paypal account entirely. I’d be able to seemlessly integrate real life and online life in a monetary sense much better than now.

Please don’t forget your UK userbase with things like this.

]]> http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/16/paypal-debit-card/feed/ VPN http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/16/vpn/ http://blog.the-kid.org/2008/10/16/vpn/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:58:13 +0000 billythekid http://blog.the-kid.org/?p=313 Normally I’d have put this in my computery blog but I figured it’d be better to put it where someone might actually read it! So…

A friend of mine was talking to me last night on IRC about his new project. I checked it out and was interested in it, however after following some links I found his other project a free VPN!!!

This is exactly what the doctor ordered. I’m all for privacy on the internet. It’s not about having nothing to hide, it’s about the fact that they shouldn’t be looking in the first place. All the data we send and receive is channelled through massive computers searching for ’suspicious behaviour’. This could be unencrypted IRC chats, MSN messages, email, websites you name it. ALL the data you send and receive from the internet is readable(and readily provided to whoever asks by your ISP)

A VPN sorts this out for you. For the non-technical amongst us, and I include me in that, it pretty much means that all data to and from your computer is unreadable tosh and in fact you look like just one of the millions of business VPNs out there already. This is different from a proxy because a proxy always leaves the trace to you, and your ISP still knows you connected to x site via y proxy.

So as soon as this is up[ and running I’ll be taking full advantage. I’m not sure my friends employers(the UK government) would back this but hey, that’s what freedom is all about!

btk

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