Ingredients:

• 1.5kg of goat chops (with bones)
• 1 brown onion chopped finely
• 1 tspn ground cumin
• 2 tspn ground coriander seeds
• 1 tspn paprika
• 1 tspn tumerik
• 2 cans diced tomotoes
• 1 can of chickpeas drained and rinsed
• Sea salt
• Balti Paste
• 1 white part of a stalk lemon grass chopped
• Cracked black pepper
• 1 lime – halved
• 3 stalks of curry leaves (destalked) and left whole
• 5  Kaffir lime leaves chopped finely
• 1 whole fresh tomato chopped into quarters
• 1 bunch coriander – stalks chopped finely, leaves chopped roughly and halved.
• 8 whole garlic cloves peeled and chopped roughly
• Dried fried shallots
• 1 tablespoon peanut oil

Combine half of the garlic,  cumin, coriander seeds, coriander stalks and half the leaves, kaffir lime leaves, the single fresh tomato, paprika, tumerik, salt, half of the lime’s juice squeezed over the top, in a blender and blend (not so it is totally liquified).

Next take the goat and chop each goat chop into two or three pieces. marinade the goat with the contents of the blender. leave for 15-20 minutes.

In a cast iron or heavy duty pot, heat the peanut oil. cook and brown the onion and the rest of the garlic. add the marinated goat and fry until sealed and brown.

Add balti paste and fry for another 5 mins. Add 1 can of tomatoes and can of chickpeas and bring to a simmer. add half of the leftover coriander leaves,  curry leaves ,  the juice of the other half of the lime.

After it has been cooking for 30mins transfer to a crock pot and add the other can of tomatoes – stir and leave cooking on high for 3 – 6 hours or until tender and falling off the bone,

Serve with Jasmin  rice and sprinkle some of the fried shallots and the leftover coriander leaves over the top when serving.

I have since discovered that my Lambro was originally owned by the Geelong City Council. They were the original importer. I like the idea that council workers were sent out to fix the city in their Lambro’s.

Anyhow They then sold it to the Orchard who shipped it over to South Australia. The rest is as I stated below.

The best way to clean a rusty gas tank is with muriatic acid. You don’t want to get it on you, so wear some gloves and a long-sleeved shirt. You also don’t want to be breathing it, so do this OUTSIDE. Don’t get it on any chrome/alloy pieces as it will eat them. That probably sounds worse than it is – it’s an easy job – but read the label when you pick some up from a hardware store.

1. Drain the tank, remove from the bike, and remove the fuel tap and cap.
2. Clean the inside as much as you can with a wire brush. (And/or use a handfull of old nuts and bolts. Put in 1/2 cup gas and shake repeatedly.) Wash out with gas.
3. Plug the bottom of the tank with rubber or a big ball of duct tape. Fill 1/2 way with hot water. Add 1 liter of muriatic acid, then fill to the top with hot water. Don’t use the gas cap as the acid will eat the chrome. If you fill less, occasionally plug the top and turn over to get everywhere. Leave it for a few hours.
4. Drain the tank, depositing the liquid with a local chemical depot if you have one. Rinse the tank out with water a few times. Clean out any remaining/semi-loose bits. Rinse out with gas.
5. Add fuel tap, install, and fill. Don’t leave it sitting or it will develop some surface rust.

Like new!

excerpt from Scootrs!

FLI175

With the FLI came a new 175cc engine and four speed gearbox along with reverse. At first it still kept the narrow cab and hand start arrangement as for the FDC, nut the handlebars were changed to that of the series one Li scooter. The steering gained a friction pad and knurled screw underneath, which could be tightened in rough driving conditions to stop the steering from wobbling! Electric’s were six volt, and the FLI could be had with an optional electric wind screen wiper. The rear light retained the Model D rear light, but with an extra bulb holder for a brake light. A tool box was provided behind the cab, to carry a jack and wheel spanner, while a spare wheel was carried in a cradle at the rear. Starting in July 1959, 10,608 series one FLI’s were made when the series two took over in July 1960

The second series FLI was Innocenti’s most successful three wheeled product. A whopping 71,681 examples were made in a manufacturing period spanning over five years. A redesigned cab, now the same width as the rear box, a kick start replaced the earlier pull start models. On the front of the cab was a new larger mudguard, along with side lights and indicators. On the rear was a cluster of lights, a rear window was fitted into the canvas blind.

excerpt from Lambretta Club of Great Britain’s Lambro page (http://www.lcgb.co.uk/scooters/lambro.html)

My wife and child got me a 1959 Lambretta lambro fli175 three wheeled scooter truck for my 40th birthday. It is in a state of disrepair but the motor is actually in a running state. I hope to document its restoration here.

History that I know so far.

The Lambro was shipped initially and used in Victoria most likely around Geelong in the early 60′s.  I know this because it has a service sticker on it.

Then apparently it was shipped to Strathalbyn, South Australia in 1965 to be used to cart apples around an orchard. I believe that it must have hauled more than one cart load of apples as their is a tow bar fitted to the back of the vehicle. Here it stayed until my friend and fellow scooter enthusiast Rick Young found it and another lambro there in various states of disrepair. He bought them and sold one to Darren Lashford who kept it for  12 months before selling it to me.

I intend to restore it to original and hope to use it to haul some of my other projects around such as the Dalek, or the band’s PA etc. Wish me luck. If you have any info at all on places i can get parts etc please contact me …

Well I was issued an iPhone a month ago by my work and it has proven itself to be amazing in so many ways. I am writing this blog entry from the phone using the worpress app. It is slick and awesome to use.

There are a few shortcomings though.

1. The iPhone does not act as a USB storage device.
2. To get my audiobooks on to the device I had to trick it by including them into a dodgy playlist.
3. I wanted to store some PDF files as references. The iPhone has a PDF reader App but that can’t read any files unless they are online so I can’t view any files stored locally on the device.

OK so I was perusing wikipedia and decided to look up some pages about bands that I had been in/involved with etc. Only to find that some wikipedia dude deleted most of these band pages and made them redirects to Area 7′s wikipedia entry. That in itself is alright but should they not contact the contributors first to say that this may happen.

Talking with some colleagues, it seems to us that wikipedia has gone crazy with deletions. Lots on legitimate info is getting turfed. When I first saw wikipedia I marveled in the site and thought “finally…this is the start of the Real Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy”. But the last few years I have come to the conclusion that this site can never be that. I romantisized in my mind that this site would be the source of that computer far off in our star trek like future that you can ask questions like “Computer… What was the individual, known as Raphael Segal, doing on the 15th of October2009″ and the computer responding with “He was writing an article entitled Wikipedia sux”. etc

I think something has to give – Wikipedia is now becoming a block to the contributors that it once was wooing and trying to get involved in the project. Seems to me that another system of archiving information has to be created. Hopefully this will happen sooner rather than later.

Wikipedia need to improve if they are to live up to the ideals it was toted to be created with or they will die -relagated to be  simply a footnote in the history of man when the truly open contributed archive takes over.

This may seem like sour grapes as it was pages mentioning me and my friends that have been deleted but I assure you that is not what disappoints me. The info that was deleted can be posted somewhere on the web and found again with relative ease. My disappointment comes from the fact that wikipedia are impeding what i thought was the goal of the site. To record and archive as much information and detail of our existence. Obviously it seems that I am wrong about the motives and the goals -  this is where I am most disappointed.

You can slash Firefox’s slow load time by compressing the DLLs and executables. There are many choices for compression but I suggest you use UPX which is free, efficient and time proven.

1. Download UPX from http://upx.sourceforge.net/#download

2. Unzip upx.exe into your Firefox installation folder which is normally C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox.

3. Make sure Firefox is not running then shell to a command prompt in the Firefox installation directory.

4. Type in the following command in a single line and hit return:

for %v in (*.exe *.dll components\*.dll plugins\*.dll) do upx “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\%v”

5. If on some later occasion you want to unpack the files, just type in the command above but add the decompression switch “-d” after “do upx.”

That’s it; enjoy the difference!

found this info at http://www.techsupportalert.com/how_to_make_firefox_faster.htm

I aint saying I am a writer. I aint written anything that has been published by a book company. I have been writing a scifi book though and I have taken to the bottle while I do so. It is a great existence the only drawback being that if this was the only income I had I would be dead from a combination of alcoholism and starvation. Gee I am glad that I am a part time dabbler and only have to go hungry when i miss dinner. ehhehee stay tuned for the books release!

Well I just came across this in my travels in the big world wide web. Douglas Adams has been an influence on me since I was quite small. Listening to the first recordings of Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy on ABC radio when i was a small boy. Then buying the Albums, then the books, then watching the TV series and then The Movie. Well I loved it all.

It marked a turning point in my awareness of British humour being different from American and Australian humour. Sporting and encompassing intelligent thought and clever cutting wit through to slapstick. I love HHGTTG and always have.

Nothing prepared me for spotyting this though. Douglas Adam’s Typewriter that wrote Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is up for sale at US$ 25675.38. Geez I will I was a rich bastard so I caould own such a beautiful piece of history.

I know most of my friends would want it as well. How did this come to be for sale??? Who would possibly want to get rid of it? I dont understand. To top it all off it is sold with a First Edition of HHGTTG. Actually it is the book being sold with the bonus typewriter but I think they are both equally as cool as each other.

Here is a quote from the site:

2467Description: First Edition Hardback. A mouthwatering copy of this modern classic, the dustwrapper retains all of the notoriously fugitive blue and is wholly unfaded. The front image and lettering are bright and sharp and the book overall is in exceptional condition. Sold together with A UNIQUE ARTEFACT owned by Douglas Adams in the late 1970s, his Hermes Standard 8 typewriter. This is a thrilling object to possess with a fascinating history. It is as certain as can be that Adams wrote his most famous work ‘The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy’ on this Hermes Standard 8. Aside from the supporting provenance, it still contains much evidence of his ownership and regular use. It bears an anti-apartheid sticker on one side of the object and is boldly signed across the front casing by Adams in his unmistakeable hand. It comes housed in its cardboard box which Adams used to transport it, namely packaging from Simon and Schuster, originally containing copies of Adams and Terry Jones’ collaboration ‘Starship Titanic’. An address label to Adams’ office at the Digital Village, London, remains stuck on the box too. The typewriter itself is in attractive condition to display, but is entirely unrestored and as precisely as it was when it was owned by Adams. It is frequently mentioned by all who knew him that writing was often a torment for him and as such his lateness was legendary. He once said ‘I love deadlines. I love the whoosing sound they make as they fly by’, and such was his difficulty in producing work on time that in a well-documented act of desperation his publishers once locked him in a hotel room until he typed enough pages to be let out! The keys of his typewriter all still bear the marks of Adams’ tortured labour. Significantly, the ‘x’ key is particularly discoloured. A unique piece of literary history then and a fabulous talking point, and simply the ultimate possession for a Douglas Adams fan. It is almost superfluous to mention that it is also a very secure investment for the future. A little bit about its subsequent history: Adams signed and donated the typewriter to a wildlife charity auction in 1998, and it was then kept in private hands for several years before being sold on. Adams was passionate about wildlife and in keeping with his memory (and his original intention for this item), a donation will be made to Rhino Recovery with this sale. ABOUT US: It is our philosophy at N V to provide the astute collector with high quality books for pleasure and investment, whilst offering a service that is always friendly and helpful. EVERY listing has a sharp digital image of the EXACT item(s) that you are perusing – with more photographs available on request. The accompanying description is meticulous and we guarantee that all items are authentic. Nevertheless, you are welcome to call us FREE on (0800) 083 0281 with any queries, or on +44 (1608) 674181 from overseas. In the meantime we wish you every success with your collecting. Bookseller Inventory # 000002

Bibliographic Details
ISBN: 0213167387
Publisher: Arthur Barker Books
Publication Date: 1979
Book Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition