I have recently taken on some exciting new projects, and created a new blog for myself. My new projects include a set of pilot projects exploring emerging technologies and their role in Youth Engagement for Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, and a new commission from FACT, Liverpool to co-create The Bold Street Project. With more wonderful Social Media projects in the pipeline, I am now focussing my blogging efforts on the new shiny www.katielips.com - a "propersonal" blog with a work focus. So apologies to any regular or irregular readers of this blog, but it's gonna get 'archived' and somewhat discontinued. I have loved writing and fiddling with this blog over the years but it's time to move on. So long "Katie's Blog"!
My new blog is here: www.katielips.com
And the winner is... Marco! Marco won the Wii Tennis Tournament @ unDEAF last weekend - a deserving winner... A good time was had by all... We learned a lot about making a tournament, like having practice time, and a second round of playoffs for the amateurs who got knocked out. The artists at unDEAF seemed to like it though, we hope! Maybe next time we need better prizes?
A while ago I decided I'd love to attend unDEAF in Rotterdam. Organised by Rui Guerra with help also from my Friend Marta Ruperez at FACT, it's sure to be a wonderful event. unDEAF is the satellite event - the unconference version of DEAF (the Dutch Electronic Art Festival). So apart from helping out a little with organisation / catering / tidying up I wanted to bring something fun to the party. The other day Paul suggested we take Wii Tennis to the artists. So there it is. It's "Wiimbledon" comes to Rotterdam / Keep fit at the unconference. We are hoping it will genuinely be a fun competition, part performance, part user meetup / wiilovers' social. Bring your Mii for Wii Tennis fun! 4pm (or thereabouts, Saturday 14th April). All info here on Upcoming.
Oh how nice.... Tonight is the Dutch Web2.0 awards brought to us by Robert at Blueace. It's over at Chez Boris so bound to be lots of fun.
Can't wait!
Having been the proud owners of a Wii for about half a day and having racked up about one whole of hour of gameplay we had our first WiiAccident. I thought it would be Paul who would be first to fling the Wii across the table knocking over a wine glass, but no, it was me. Soon after we cleared up it was our favourite new Christmas baubles that copped it! We basically need a bigger house.
Apparently it was the done thing in the seventies to read, take notice of and try out recipes to spice up Christmas in the "Good House Keeping Institute" Cookbook, and or magazine. So one year my Mother made Lemon Shorties for Christmas, perhaps mince pies alone seemed rather dull that year!
Since then Christmas isn't Christmas for me without Lemon Shorties - a sort of mince pie for people who hate mince pies. Replace the mincemeat concept with a delicious creamy sugary lemon filling and dust with icing.
As this year I'll be in Amsterdam for Christmas and am not going to see my Mum until January I didn't want to miss out on a Lemon Shortie or two so asked her to send me the recipe. She's now getting quite good at using her scanner but still she's not so hot on attaching files to emails (or finding where files are, or knowing how to reorder lists of sent items by date, or.. or...). So several fraught "the email disappeared" conversations later, here is the delightfully tatty recipe. Thanks Mum!
Don't forget the doily!
Tags: lemonshorties, recipe, christmasfood, ihatemincepies.