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Gin and Tonic Cake

makes one large 9×13 baking dish

* 3 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons baking powder
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
* 1 3/4 cup granulated sugar
* 4 large eggs

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{
    "name": "CSV Validation Example",
    "resources": [
    {
        "name": "Land Registry Example Data",
        "path": "../lr-pp-nov-2013.csv",
        "format": "csv",
        "mediatype": "text/csv",
        "encoding": "UTF-8",
        "dialect": {

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URL,Title,Description
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Ghetto_Gourmet,Ghetto Gourmet,Underground eating club expands into large community of foodies. 
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/The_Borat_Movie,The “Borat” Movie,Comedy about a Kazakh television journalist's adventures in America.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Gay_Republicans,Gay Republicans,Mark Foley scandal puts all gay Republicans on Capitol Hill under scrutiny.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Eating_Endangered_Species,Eating Endangered Species,Animals on endangered species list considered a culinary delicacy.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Crystal_Meth,Crystal Meth,Drug with ugly side effects.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Loco_Roco_,Loco Roco,Cute PSP video game for the Katamari and Cute Overload set.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Waterboarding,Waterboarding,Controversial form of torture simulates drowning.
http://www.buzzfeed.com//buzz/Global_Warming_Vacation_Hotspots_,Global Warming Vacation Hotspots ,Why is it 70 degrees in December?
http://www.buzzfeed.

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{
  "title": "UK Government Organagram",
  "description": "Draft schema for validating CSV files collected as part of publishing UK Government organagrams",
  "fields": [
     {
        "name": "Post Unique Reference",
        "title": "Post Unique Reference",
        "description": "Unique id for a post",
        "constraints": {
		"required": true,

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{
	"title": "Land Registry Monthly Price Paid Data",
	"description": "Schema for the land registry monthly price-paid data",
	"fields": [
	     {
		"name": "ID",
		"description": "Unique transaction code",
		"constraints": {
			"required": true,
			"minLength": 38,

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I might turn this into a blog post, but if I open up Wordpress rather than a gist editor I'll think too much and end up not posting anything. So...

I'm finding DayZ Standalone to be a really compelling experience. At lot of this I owe to the fact that I'm playing with @Thayer, @bamblesquatch, @tomnatt and @dsfan10 who are fun to play with. But the game itself, even at this early stage, has a lot to get hooked on.

Firstly, its a really beautiful game. I've spent several sessions just roaming the landscape away from all of the towns, cities, zombies and other players. In the dreary, wet winter evenings it's nice to drop-into an "eternal day" server and just roam the countryside.

Secondly, the survival mechanics, whilst still being developed, are nuanced and more complex than I've seen in other FPS's that I've played. The need to regulate hydration, food intake, health, bleeding and shock, makes the simple fact of fi

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#set environment for mongoid
export RACK_ENV=development

#run data conversion
rake clean convert

#run the data load, using settings from mongoid.yml
bundle exec rake load

#to drop the database, read database name from ENV["ONS_POC_DB"]

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{
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "One",
      "constraints": {
        "required": true
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Two",

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Twitter informed that a demo of Xanadu had launched, so I went to have a look. The demo only works in Firefox and it seems to be a cut down version of demos that I've seen Ted Nelson give in the past. But still: running code in the wild.

I met Ted Nelson once when we both spoke at an STM Innovations conference in 2006. I suspect he wouldn't have agreed with my much of my talk which looked at the web as a hypertext system and compared it with earlier approaches. My point of view was that we could bring those features back into the web by creating new services and by exploiting Javascript and web browsers to upgrade our experience of using the web. Evolution doesn't need to happen in a coordinated centralised way.

(When I say I met Ted Nelson, I meant that I shyly sat next to him at lunch while he expounded on various topics and fiddled with the tape recorder he was using to record all his conversations. So maybe, "met" isn't the right word (he won't

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