Unless you’re going to act upon it, measuring anything is nothing more than statistical masturbation, whether it be on the web or anywhere else. There is the warm afterglow that you get from the first time that you hit a hundred; a thousand or a hundred thousand visitors to your blog a day, but once… Continue reading Measuring web statistics for your food blog
Month: May 2008
One-plus-One Dumplings: Uyghur-licious
Chinese food in Australia is for the most part, awful, but it is an awfulness within which you can revel. Steak and black bean sauce, paint-liftingly acidic lemon chicken, your-meat-of-choice stir-fried with cashew nut and cornstarch. Fried rice with peas in it and those little prawns (jumbo krill?) from a can that only exist to… Continue reading One-plus-One Dumplings: Uyghur-licious
Keep calm and carry on
I’m having a few issues upgrading from WordPress 2.3 to 2.5, and compatability with my plugins/theme. All will be well by Sunday. Addendum (Saturday): All is well now. Also, you can buy the “Keep Calm And Carry On” poster from Sfgirlbybay on Etsy or you can grab a whole pile of Keep Calm and Carry… Continue reading Keep calm and carry on
À la recherche du “taco truck” perdu
This week on SBS: I fear the loss of LA’s taco trucks. Still no RSS, comments are on! Addendum (Friday night): RSS is go. Point your feed readers to the SBS food blog feed.
Bánh Mì Xiu Mai
Bánh mì xiu mai is the ultimate culinary mashup: a strange interpretation of Cantonese food in a French baguette via Saigon. The banh mi is your average baguette filled with a slap of pate, pickled carrot and stalks of coriander. The xiu mai part is utterly bewildering. Picking the xiu mai from the sauce The… Continue reading Bánh Mì Xiu Mai
Guerilla Gardening: How to compost a whole cow
The guerilla garden continues apace with one rude surprise. The bamboo has been chopped down and left aside to mulch as much material as possible before I call in the council to remove the woodier stalks. The rude shock is that beneath the thin ground cover of rotting bamboo leaf and years of accumulated trash,… Continue reading Guerilla Gardening: How to compost a whole cow
My head on SBS
A while back I foretold a grim future where bloggers would be hired up by major media players. That future is this afternoon. I’ve just started work on Special Broadcasting Service’s new (as yet untitled) world food blog. The site is still a bit shaky – no commenting/trackbacks/RSS yet – but it’s a start on… Continue reading My head on SBS
My new baby
No, I’m not having a real baby. Don’t get your hopes up, Mum. I’ve finally taken the plunge and invested in a real camera: a Nikon D40X. My point-and-shoot Olympus C-740 was reaching the end of its life: I had worn off the rubber eyepiece from having it pressed against me so often, and was… Continue reading My new baby