Archive for March, 2006

Spiced sweet butternut squash soup

An improvised soup, based on a combination of what was in the cupboard and “Spiced Sweet Potato & Red Onion Soup” from Soup Kitchen; this version is pure butternut squash. That’s the wife’s lunches sorted then.

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A Moroccan-ish Casserole

An improvised casserole, based on what was in the cupboard, with a Moroccan twist. Next time I’d like to try preserved lemons, which seem to be preferred over fresh for Moroccan style cooking. Staying with the MiL at the moment, so I was able to take advantage of her terracotta casserole dish which seemed appropriate (although it was Schlemmertopf, not a tangine.)

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Free downloadable UK maps from Ordnance Survey

Well lorday, how generous: Ordnance Survey is now providing a selection of free, downloadable, basic small-scale maps of Great Britain.

The Government double charges us for data

I’ve just felt sufficiently exercised to write to my MP, about the UK government charging for information they’ve collected with our (the UK taxpayers) money. For example, I’m doing a location based events search for Arts & Kids. The data underpinning this has been collected by OS and the Royal Mail, using tax payers money, and yet the charity is having to pay for it in order to provide a free service to UK citizens.

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The Get Human database

A list of UK organisations, with the steps needed to get through their infernal touch tone phone menus to speak with a real live human being. Absolutely brilliant.

P3P Wizard - Free $29.95 Automated P3P Privacy Policy Generator

IE 6 on Windows rejects cookies not sent with compact privacy headers; meaning that some users may not be able to access some areas of your site. The solution is to generate a privacy policy, which this P3P Wizard takes (most of) the pain out of…

Update: This wizard now charges a fee. Thanks for the heads up Dave (below).