Canberra Centenery Trail

Way back in 2013 (i.e. two years ago from the time of writing) Canberra suffered its centenary of founding: A year-long party was planned and various worthy public works undertaken.
Possibly my favourite and (I feel) most underrated is the Canberra Centenary Trail. This is a 145Km walking/cycling loop of the city of Canberra, that takes-in the city-centre and much of its surrounding bushland. You can walk the trail in a week or ride it in 3 days.
Unfortunately there's no links to Google Maps overlays for it... So I made one.
It has both the walking and cycling routes as separate layers and should be easily sharable.

"Caribbean" chicken

This recipe isn't particularly authentic, but it could better be described as "Caribbean inspired chicken". Nevertheless it's a really tasty recipe and worth blogging about. I got it from an old friend years ago with typically imprecise measurements and times ("approx half a jar of chutney", "when the chicken is cooked", etc.) I've tried to tighten-up the measurements here for all those like me who get a bit nervy when they have to wing it.

Transcend® JetFlash®710 pico-review

I bought a 64G Transcend® JetFlash®710 drive from eBay recently as my previous "tiny keyring drive" (A Sandisk Cruzer Force) had passed-away due to some kind of mechanical failure (For once not the loop that secures it to your keychain/lanyard, but the plastic holding the flash-module inside the shell).
In the past you always had to be wary of flash storage bought through eBay (The brand-name forgeries get more and more convincing as time goes on). So this article is covers my analysis of what I received.

Spirited Away(2001)

The ANU film group solicited short reviews for the semester 2, 2014 programme. This is my review of Spirited Away for them. I was a bit short of time and phone it in (which is even more of a tragedy as it seems this was a popular film lots of people wanted to review).

General online auction "sniping" tips for ALLBIDS

This is just a quick article about the specifics on "sniping" online auctions (That is: bidding late to try and catch other bidders unawares). Specifically I will cover the differences between "traditional" sniping on the worldwide eBay site and the Canberra-specific ALLBIDS.

Whiteboard vinyl film

This is from a posting I made to the Makehackvoid forums:
I thought I'd give an update to a topic I started on the mailing list last month: Whiteboard paint possibilities/alternatives

TL;DR:

I bought a roll of 2000✕450mm whiteboard vinyl from eBay for $7.82 delivered:

Triple ginger cake

A friend had this cake at a restaurant recently. She liked it so much she begged the kitchen for the recipe (well... I don't know if she begged, but I would have). She made it for us and it really was that good, but it was a stupendous amount of very rich cake. Strangely there's only two forms of ginger, despite the name.