And now for something completely different…Chocolate Mousse Cake!

Photos, at last! This first one shows the cake unmoulded, with dark chocolate shavings on top.

Not terribly impressive as visual images go, is it?

Meeka is a real name? Oh…:(

About ten years ago when I started playing mmo’s (massively multiplayer online [games]) I chose the name ‘Meeka’ for my second character on Final Fantasy XI because I liked the sound of it. I had been pouring over maps of Australia and had discovered a place a place in Western…

Kenneth James Weishuhn — declare war on bullying!

Being gay is not a crime. It is not a sin. It is not a sickness that can be ‘cured’ and it is not a choice than can be made. It is just a fact, like having brown hair instead of blond, blue eyes instead of brown.

May I introduce… Stephanie Allen Crist

Over the course of the last four months Stephanie and I have been having some amazing email conversations about being writers — what’s involved, what’s needed to succeed, what does it all mean? These conversations taught me a great deal as Stephanie has a…

Archangel — wild, wonderful music

I am having a truly wonderful day so I thought I’d do something I’ve never done before — share a piece of music :

To be critiqued or not to be critiqued (apologies to the Bard)

I had a nice little post drafted last night. It was going to be about the craft of writing but when I awoke this morning I found that my subconscious had been busy on a related subject — critiquing. Now critiquing is a…

Solar power — some real figures

My house sits on a ridge and a very large chunk of roof faces north — that means that it gets full sun for most of the day. [In the southern hemisphere the north side is hot, the south side remains cool]. So right from the beginning I I knew I would have to harvest some of…