Signature dish: Vietnamese chicken cashew
Posted by Roy Tomeij | Filed under Cooking
I thought it would be nice to share my “signature dish”, which everyone seems to like. It’s a Vietnamese dish, with a name I couldn’t remember.
Needed (for 4 servings):
- 2 large onions
- 3 bell peppers (green, red, yellow)
- 5 garlic toes
- 2 chili peppers
- ± 450 grams (or 1 pound) of chicken fillet
- oyster sauce
- fish sauce
- sugar
- 3 scallions (spring onions)
- vegetable oil (I suggest using arachis oil (a.k.a. peanut oil))
- ± 100 grams (or 3.5 ounces) of unsalted cashews
Tags: chicken, recipe, vietnamese
Software gone social: Wakoopa
Posted by Roy Tomeij | Filed under Software
This may look like a shameless plug for some fellow entrepreneurs (Robert & Wouter) who I know personally and respect for what they have done, but in fact it’s a review of a very useful service: Wakoopa.
By installing the Wakoopa tracker (for Windows and OSX, Linux on the way), Wakoopa keeps track of your software and web application usage (if you don’t trust them, you can turn off the web app tracking). Based on your usage (which does produce nice graphs) and what your peers use, Wakoopa makes recommendations on what new software to try. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: recommendations, Software, tracker, wakoopa
The Island at the Center of the World
Posted by Roy Tomeij | Filed under Book
I wonder why I didn’t blog about this excellent book earlier. I read it in 2005 I think, and when I go to New York (never been there, but it’s on my list of places to go asap) this is what I will read during the flight.
Russell Shorto wrote “The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
Shorto provides a great story, based on well documented research, which makes you understand why New York City is the melting pot it is today (and as it turns out has always been). The atmosphere and liberal views in NYC can be traced back to the Dutch colonial days. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Book, history, new york, shorto, usa
ConfNetwork in action at Blog08
Posted by Roy Tomeij | Filed under Business
Picture of ConfNetwork Live Channel by Anne Helmond
ConfNetwork was used for the first time as Live Channel (or Back Channel) at Blog08. Visitors could participate in the discussions by either posting a message at http://network.blog08.nl/ or sending a message to twitter with the tag “#blog08“. With the messages displayed using a beamer and the possibility to link your profile and picture to your messages, it made a great tool for interactiveness. A back channel like this is nothing new, but the possibility of viewing the profile of the people sending a message and all related ConfNetwork functionality (messaging, matching, etc.) does give it that extra touch.
PS: No idea why I kept this as a draft, instead of actually publishing it. But here it is :)
Tags: Business, confnetwork, twitter
How to get the Twitter name you always wanted
Posted by Roy Tomeij | Filed under Miscellaneous
Thanks to a post at TheNextWeb.com titled “How to Snap Up that twitter Username You’ve Always Wanted” I managed to have the nice folks at Twitter change my username from “roytomeij” to “roy“.
Maybe it’s because I’m a nerd, but I think it’s quite cool to have your first name as your username. A Twitter user search reveales there are 848 people with “Roy” as either their first or last name, so I’m quite lucky I read the above mentioned post at the right time. I tried to contact the “old Roy” in the past, but he never responded to my messages. The trick is to send an e-mail to username@twitter.com to request a username change. They will verify if the account really is inactive. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: twitter
