The First (Comic)
A 2 page comic based on the activities of the dedicated staff at JCU Cairns.
Continue Reading…Posted on Mar 07, 2007
Articles
This section is for informal writing, reviews etc. My published research papers are in the Research section. I've put also listed some products and services I recommend in a Recommendations section.How to Obtain Special Meals on Airlines
A version of this article appeared in the Masala Times, November 2007 edition. If you would like to publish one my articles please feel free to contact me.
It can be tricky to get special meals (kosher, vegetarian, vegan, or without a particular allogen) on airlines. Here are some suggestions for improving your chances. I use vegan food in the hints, but the same ideas apply for other special meals.
Continue Reading…Posted on Oct 20, 2006
Rails on Shared Hosting: Keeping FastCGI Alive
Although we might want to run our rails applications through mongrel, lighttpd or something more exotic some shared hosting environments require that Ruby on Rails run through FastCGI under Apache. It’s sometimes hard to maintain good performance of your application because the FastCGI process is automatically killed after some idle time.
Continue Reading…Posted on Oct 19, 2006
How I Learnt About Cooking: The Falafel Incident
By the time I moved out of home I had some understanding of boiling, shallow-frying, microwave-ing, and roasting. However, I had no experience in the deep-frying field. I wanted to cook falafel. I bought falafel mix; I mixed it with water; I was doing fine. I poured oil, a lot of oil, into a wok to do the deep-frying; I started the gas; the oil got hot; I was still doing fine.
I had been told that really hot oil was important for falafel. Consequently, I was careful to boil the oil before I put any of the falafel balls in. Alert, experienced cooks will have noticed an error of judgement at this point.
Continue Reading…Posted on Oct 03, 2006
