Kriss Watt is a frontend Web Developer and geek living and working in London, currently building cool things for Tobias & Tobias. He also loves to cook all sorts of interesting food, read books and watch as many films as possible. Follow him on Twitter, if you like.
Last weekend I picked up a new cookery book that I had been looking forward to for some time, ‘Mexican Food Made Simple’ by Thomasina Miers, the Masterchef winner and co-owner of Wahaca. Her ethos, both on television and in her restaurants, is to try and bring simple Mexican street food to a grateful public. From personal experience at Wahaca I would definitely say that her goal has been reached… More
An amazingly talented and distinctive muscian, The Tallest Man on Earth fills me with joy whenever I listen. I played his debut album, ‘Shallow Grave’ ad infinitum and am currently on my very first listen through the follow-up, ‘The Wild Hunt’. So far it's as good, if not better.
At the moment it's a battle between Tallest Man and Yeasayer for my favourite album of 2010, although based on the breath-taking ‘Spanish Sahara’ I wouldn't be at all surprised if the new Foals album is a contender… More
I'm learning python at the moment. This is a short python script I wrote to download my tagged recipes from Delicious. Very basic stuff, but already I'm impressed by how little code you need to write to get things working.
#!/usr/bin/python
import simplejson as json
import urllib
url = "http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/json/mythlan/recipe?count=5"
delicious = urllib.urlopen(url)
recipes = json.load(delicious)
delicious.close()
for r in recipes:
print "<a href=\"%s\">%s</a>\n" % (r['u'], r['d'])