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I picked up some blueberries while I was grocery shopping yesterday and decided to make some blueberry muffins today with them. I just kind of threw together some ingredients (hoping for the best) and made my own recipe on the spot and I thought I’d share the recipe with you all because they turned out really yummy.

• 1-1/4 cups of self-rasing flour sifted
• 1/2 cup of brown sugar
• 1/4 cup of butter melted and cooled (I used a lactose free brand)
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup of milk (I used a lactose free milk)
• 100g of blue berries
• 3 tablespoons of caster sugar
• A few drops of vanilla essence

1. Preheat oven to 200 degrees C and grease a muffin large pan (it makes about 12 muffins). Combine flour and caster/brown sugar in a mixing bowl.
2. Using a fork, whisk butter, egg, milk and vanilla essence together in a jug. Add it and the blueberries to the flour/sugar mix and fold together until just combined.
3. Spoon into the muffin pan and bake in the oven for about 15 minutes or until a fork inserted into one of the muffins comes out clean. Let them cool for a minute or two and sprinkle some icing sugar over them. Enjoy. 🙂

I updated to the latest version of WordPress today. Normally this would be easy, because WordPress isn’t hard to upgrade, but I have a cold. So the simplest things turn out to be the hardest things. It took me over 1 hour to figure out the database was upgraded and the error messages were normal and not to be concerned about. Grrr. It would have taken me only 5 minutes if my brain wasn’t in ultra slow mode.

I should have spent today in bed, watching the ‘Labyrinth’, ‘Dark Crystal’ and ‘The Luscious Grassy Place Movie’ – I mean, ‘Return To Oz’ – which I scored for $10 each over the weekend.

Anyways, there are still a few things that need tinkering with, such as:

• Re-install the mobile hack
• Re-install the since last visit hack
• Install comment blacklist hack
• Re-do the smiley codes
• Install the grin hack
• Re-code the content (which I’ve been meaning to do for ages)
• Fix the CSS shadow effect around images
• Find out if there a stats hack for this version
• Check if it all validates

Fun times.

This is for the googlers…

• I have no idea how to get on The Oprah Show, I just write smart ass blog entries about oprah show dreams.
• That ‘bat the penguin’ (or spank the pingu) game you are all searching for is here thanks to Mark.
• Spanking of the little red monkey is not advised, but you can spank another monkey here or here.

There was a freelance reporter that emailed me today who was writing an article for The Courier Mail (either in Brisbane or Melbourne, I’m not too sure) and I accidentally deleted the email while deleting some other emails containing mydoom in mail washer. Oops. So if you are that reporter, please email me back.

I’ve never been the kind of person to join Friendster or any of the other social networks, I just didn’t get ‘it’ (it being the reason why so many people join and become addicted). I totally get ‘it’ now though. I joined Orkut (the new social networking site funded by Google) a few days ago after receiving my invitation from Matt. I’m already addicted and finding myself logging on to Orkut has become one of the first things I do in the morning (right after checking email and brushing teeth). It is invite only though, so if you’re having trouble getting an invite let me know and I’ll hook you up. If you’ve already joined up, look me up and say hi. 🙂

Just when you thought the pimping and bitching (aka: The Bloggies) was over, another online publicly-chosen awards has popped up today. The Cammies. And since my site is blog/cam you could (if you wanted to) vote for Kitta.net in any of the categories below:

• Best australian camsite
• Best slogan of a camsite
• Best webcam of a camsite
• Best content of a camsite
• Best designed camsite
• Camgirl of the year
• Lifetime achievement

Voting closes 9:00 PM (GMT – 8 ) on February 12, 2004. 😉

I am having a slow day today. If I could have stayed in bed all day, without being woken up at 10am by an ambitious family member, I’m sure I would have. Because I was in such a slow mood today, I watched ‘The In Laws’. Pretty good movie, made me forget about some things for over an hour, which is what all good movies should do. 🙂

I was looking through my tracking system before and noticed that someone in a forum was talking about the CSS shadow effect around my pictures. Dunstan is the guy to go see about that, check out his entry on how to create the same effect.

I also had to set up a filter to catch any emails that contain the new worm that’s doing the rounds. I’ve noticed the file sizes are about 30 to 40 kb, may be from a spoofed address (I got one for alice@kitta.net) and contains ‘Test’, ‘Mail Delivery System’, ‘Mail Transaction Failed’ or the popular ‘Hi’ in the subject line. So keep an eye out for that.

To end my slow day I’m going to watch Nip/Tuck later, it started to lag a bit there in the middle but I’m hoping the season final tonight will make up for it.

You know you are living in the year 2004 when…

1. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is because they do not have e-mail.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
4. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
5. Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom of the screen.
6. You buy a computer and 3 months later it’s out of date and sells for half the price you paid.
7. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go get it.
8. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and take planning.
9. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
10. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
11. Your dining room table is now your filing cabinet.
12. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it notes.
13. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
14. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
15. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
16. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
17. You wake up at 2 AM to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on your way back to bed.
18. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. 🙂

Oh and happy Australia Day, be sure to drink, say g’day a lot and have a BBQ. 🙂

I was reading the newspaper today while waiting for my lunch to cook. I was mainly reading the personal ads, not because I’m ‘looking’, but because there is always at least one ad in there that is a good laugh. Like this one:

I think the person who placed the ad is talking about the Domino’s pizza ad in Australia, where all the girls act like blokes. But to anyone that hasn’t seen it, the ‘crack problem’ joke might not go down well.

The evil one is sleeping on my lap as I type this, she keeps looking up at me as if to say “Excuse me, I’m trying to sleep here you know. Stop that annoying typing!” .

You’ve probably noticed that Kitta.net was down for a day and a bit, sorry about that, the server it was on didn’t want to play nice (and I just love how it choose to be a complete tosser during bloggie voting, thanks a lot server). So it’s was moved to a nicer one.

Apart from bad mouthing the old server, I’ve been planning an attack of “mum can we get foxtel digital TV”. We already have foxtel, but today I received word that foxtel digital will be coming out soon. I have to plan this attack well, and have a few back up plans just in case the “look at the cool news channels” or “eastenders… in digital!” plans don’t work. Wish me luck.

My brother: Oi, it says here that you can ride a horse on a road but not on a freeway.
Me: Yes, that is true.
My brother: I’m so going to get a horse then ride it to uni everyday.
Me: Umm, no.
My brother: That would be so cool, it would piss people off too…
Me: *sighs*

I better stop typing now, the evil one is starting to head butt my hands to get me to stop typing. I am just a pillow to her.

I found out that Kitta.net has been selected as one of the five finalists for Best Designed Weblog in the fourth annual Bloggies. I would have blogged about this sooner, but I’ve been trying to recover from the shock of being up against sites such as simplebits.com and whatdoiknow.org. But you know what they say, the grass is always greener on the other side – or in this case – I think other sites rock more than my own.

The monkey on the other hand thinks this is fantastic, he keeps saying “first the bloggies then the world” and making devious plans. I am happy just to be nominated and thrilled by the thought of winning. So if you want Kitta.net win go vote for it!

I was also happy to see some of my favourite blogs are finalists, Shinyplasticbag.com is up for for Best Canadian Weblog and gtmcknight.com (who’s been at the beach for days) for Best Non-Weblog Content and 1976design.com/blog is up for Best Programming of a Weblog. And of course, dooce.com is up for Weblog of the Year.

Sadly, I know I won’t be making it to the award ceremony at SXSW. Not only is money an issue, but I am also going on a family holiday around the time of the ceremony (something which we haven’t done in over 4 years). So if you are going, please tell me. I need someone to accept for me if I do win.

Lastly, I want to say a big huge thank you to everyone who nominated Kitta.net and to the panel of judges who voted for me. 🙂 The monkey will remember this when he takes over the world.

I haven’t been sleeping very well over the last few nights. I spent about five hours last night staring at the roof and trying to trick myself into going to sleep. Which is hard to do when you know what tricks you’re trying to pull on yourself.

1am – “Ok, if you sleep I’ll buy you macca’s tomorrow, how’s that for a deal!”
2am – “So you don’t like being bribed with tasty foods hey? Well, then I’d like to remind you that we do have things to do tomorrow!”
3am – “75 bottles of coke on the wall, 75 bottles of coke, if one of those bottles accidentally falls there will be 74 bottles of coke on the wall. 74 bottles of coke on the wall…”
4am – “I’m going to stop talking to you now, I bet that’s why we’re still up, because I keep bloody talking to you!”
5am – “Go to sleep or I’ll turn on the TV and you’ll have to watch some religious show!”

Funny enough just after 5am was when I got to sleep, clearly myself doesn’t like bible TV. 😉