I saw James Martin make scones on Saturday Kitchen (a show he would later go on to host) almost 20 years ago and, although I can no longer find the specific recipe he used on that day, I have continued to follow pretty much the same recipe that I wrote down as I watched the show - a recipe that is very easy and results in a delicious afternoon tea.

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Everyone has an ideal weight - a weight they would like to be. For me, it is 83-85kg, which is what I weighed in my early thirties and is also a healthy weight:height ratio for me. In my early thirties there were a number of factors contributing to my ideal weight:

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Just over a year ago, inspired by a blog article, I decided to give up breakfast in order to lose weight and get back to my ideal weight range of 83-85kg. I finally hit my goal in mid-March, having lost 17kg and with it, gained a real sense of achievement and satisfaction, as well as feeling healthier and lighter.

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In a previous article on reducing our household waste, I described how I implemented a worm farm to reduce our food organics waste. I got a kitchen caddy from my local council to put kitchen scraps into, before moving them to the worm farm. In order to help to keep the kitchen caddy clean and free from smells and stains, I lined it with compostable bags, which could then be placed in the worm farm after a few reuses.

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I got a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B late last year with the lofty dual intentions of spending some time on control projects and doing some network penetration testing. Dual intentions require dual operating systems (Raspbian and Kali Linux in my case) and having started out with Raspberry Pi’s boot loader, NOOBS (New Out Of Box Software), I quickly came to realise that it did not support Kali Linux.

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Zero Waste Week is a UK initiative aimed at raising awareness of the environmental impacts of waste. It has run every September since 2008, with this year’s Zero Waste Week happening from the 2nd-6th September. With a few weeks to go until Zero Waste Week, I started wondering what I could do this year to reduce my environmental impact.

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In an earlier post, I described how I implemented a soft plastic recycling bin at home to reduce our household waste. This second article focuses on Food Organics and Garden Organics (FOGO) and how I diverted food organics waste from landfill with a worm farm. Setting up the Worm Farm Rather than purchasing a pre-made worm farm, I opted to make one using materials I mostly had at home, and following an article on building a stackable worm farm.

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Melburnians are all too familiar with trying to cross busy a intersection in the CBD as cars attempting to turn left inch their way forwards into the crossing pedestrians, or worse, cars turning right chance a dash through the line of crossing pedestrians. A recent RACV article stated that there has been a 43% increase in pedestrian traffic in the CBD since 2001, with many 1,000s of pedestrians crossing busy intersections like Spencer and Collins Streets every hour.

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Melbourne’s inner southeast has quite a few tram routes - the 64, 67, 3, 5 and 6. The problem is that, bar Route 6, they don’t really terminate somewhere very useful; most just end in a residential area, perhaps surrounded by a few shops. There are historical reasons for this - in the past tram lines were each run by separate companies and competed for business with the railways, which were also run as private enterprises.

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I needed to put a map on an article I was writing. Specifically, I wanted to overlay some information on top of an existing street map. The terms of service for Google Maps were too punitive and could potentially lead to me paying to use the service, but a quick search on the internet revealed another map service - OpenStreetMap.

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