With the recent shock revelation that Mrs Kipling does actually exist and was once an actress in Corontation St we thought we should make sure that the exceedingly good cakes were as good as we remembered.
Safe to say that the despite the implications of some sort of power shift within the Mr Kipling marketing machine, the cakes are still fo a high quality. Just take a look at Patrick’s face. He’s loving that Bakewell.
Halloween special – Mooncake! And what a cake; brought back as a present from Hong Kong this cake holds a dirty little secret. Inside, AKA Scotch egg style is a duck egg yolk. You might think this is normal, ‘cakes are made with egg’ I hear you say. But this one actually has a solid egg in the middle and so deserves another picture (below). Suffice to say that it didn’t go down particularly well in the office. In fact, I was the only one who tried a second bite and certainly the only person to partake in the egg. According to Wikipedia Mooncakes are “rich, heavy, and dense compared with most Western cakes and pastries.” You can say that again.
Still, in the spirit of Halloween, these cakes are for the Zhongqiu Festival for lunar worship and moon watching. So fill your boots!
One of the first blog posts on the UVd blog was about Java application called Wordle which created pretty looking tag clouds based on word occurrences in blog RSS feeds, del.icio.us accounts or any block of supplied text.
It is quite interesting to see a peripheral snapshot of how a blogs content changes over time. Saves the trouble of reading it all as well.
After 8 years hunkered down in the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, in what can only be described as ‘cosy’ surroundings we have moved to a bigger, brighter, fresher and more creative space! We haven’t moved far (physically) but things are far from the same in our nice new airy, windowed office. We even have a sofa. It’s been a long time coming but it was worth the wait…patience as they say is a virtue.
This is the first of our cake of the month posts. Today we found inspiration from an M&S Coffee & Walnut cake. Whilst discussing the finer details of our ongoing redesign we enjoyed moist coffee flavoured sponge with just the right amount of buttercream. Highly recommended by the whole team.
Future cake of the month reviews will consist of a wide variety of butter filled, sugar coated blog posts. Our intrepid team of eaters will be happy to accept free dessert based gifts from readers who wish to raise the profile of their cake making enterprises. Sponge, pie or flan; biscuit, Battenburg or birthday. We will eat it all. Stay tuned.
On the 15th January 2009 we finally found a new member of staff after 9 months of rigorous interviews. We have been waiting 1 month for him to work his notice period but our new developer – Vandon – started work for us today. He’s doing remarkably good for someone with slightly less experience than we had originally been looking for.
Since Kirsten seems to be firmly in control of our work related posts, I’ll continue to wax lyrical about the weather and temperature in here. After some long drawn out conversations with the management of the building, it was agreed that the hosting company downstairs (there un-ventilated sever room is just below us) was the cause of the tropical climate in here. After admission of blame they have agreed to rent us an air conditioning unit which arrived yesterday *whoops and claps*. Our office has a maximum capacity of 4, at a push, and as you can see from the photo the air con unit (aka Climatron) is an industrial strength behemoth. It has pop up, eyes like kit in Knightrider and quietly hums away in the corner. Safe to say, we are now cool, calm and collected.
I’m not going to be that person who moans about the weather in England when its rubbish and then also when it gets a little sticky if the sun comes out……..but it’s damn hot in our office and the air conditioning isn’t working. This being the first Ultraviolet blog post I thought I’d make it informal and non-work related. Further down the line we may talk about what we do. =)
We’ve been integrating some social media into one of the sites we work on ModernSelling and specifically working with the TweetMeme API which allows users to view the number of Tweets an article / page has received and retweet said [...]
We have finished an enjoyable project for SPAR International, which involved creating an athletics game based around the button bashing classic, Daley Thomson’s Decathlon. When creating the graphics and style for this game we wanted to utilise the nostalgic [...]
With the recent shock revelation that Mrs Kipling does actually exist and was once an actress in Corontation St we thought we should make sure that the exceedingly good cakes were as good as we remembered. Safe to say that [...]
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