After my mom made Nigella Lawson’s Clementine Cake when I was home for Thanksgiving, I decided to give it a shot. I found some great organic satsuma’s, ground up some almonds, and was very impressed with the results, especially considering how easy a recipe it is. I didn’t have a springform pan, but lining a square baking pan with parchment paper worked like a charm.
What's been on my mind lately? Read on...
After some feedback (thanks!), I’ve decided to continue to host images on my own site after the redesign. It gives me more control over how images are displayed, and also allows the image galleries to retain the same feel as the rest of the site. Now the trick is to figure out how to manage it all.
I’m currently using Dave’s album.pl, which has served me well, and isn’t so far off from the right solution. There seem to be plenty of options out there, and I’m looking for the one somewhere in between album.pland Gallery, which might be overkill. For example, it’d be nice to have an admin page where I can upload new images and change captions through a web interface, but I don’t need to have comments or display EXIF data for every image or allow other users to upload images. Any suggestions?
I put up a random group of photos from my recent East Coast trip – check ’em out here.
As part of the site redesign, I’m considering how best to display photos. Given a choice between Picasa Web albums (as above), Flickr albums (like this one) and my own HTML albums (like this one), do you have a preference? What’s easiest to browse? Let me know!
I’ve been playing a bit with an updated layout for the site. So far, it’s nothing drastic, but hopefully things come across a little cleaner. It’s also a good opportunity to update my HTML/CSS skills, which date to about 1997. Reading a bunch at W3Schools, I gather quite a bit has changed since then. If you’re interested, you can check out my progress here (currently only the main page and “Projects” page are new). Feel free to send me any feedback you might have.
My East Coast trip was a whirlwind one – 3 days in Boston, 3 in New York, bookended by late night/early morning flights. From the outset, I was in sleep debt, unable to sleep on the redeye. It eventually caught up to me and I caught a bit of a cold. But, it was overall a good trip – I saw quite a few friends and tons of family, ate well, and got some culture both in Boston and New York. Though I didn’t make it to the ICA, I did see an exhibit on scientific instruments at Harvard (great objects, but poorly annotated) and made it to both the Natural History Museum (whales! dinosaurs! big stone heads!) and Folk Art Museum (mediocre collection, but what a spectacular building) in New York.
I’m really looking forward to Nebunele Theatre’s upcoming show, Medea Knows Best. Their last show, The Secret Ruths of Island House was one of the best pieces of theater I saw in 2006 (and I saw quite a bit of good theater). If you’re in town from December 7th thru the 22nd, check it out.