News

PittCorp CEO resigns

7 March 2011. In a shock announcement today, PittCorp CEO, Trevor Pitt, resigned, citing "family reasons".

An undisclosed source close to the company claimed that Trevor's recent performance was just "not up to scratch". In particular, the loss of 4 valuable breeding stock from PittCorp Aquaculture (believed taken by next door's cat) were directly attributable to Trevor being asleep on the job.

Corporation Secretary, Trin (Ms Fixit) Strickland, has been appointed interim CEO, and it is believed that Chairman John Pitt, may take a more active role.

Markets rallied at this news, with many shareholders cashing in their BHP and Newscorp shares to invest more heavily in PittCorp.

No annual PittCorp message

24 December 2010. For the first time in over 20 years, PittCorp Chairman and founding CEO, John Pitt, was forced to cancel the annual Message to shareholders. He cited "difficulties" with the move, but rumours about the performance of CEO, Trevor Pitt, are rife.

PittCorp shares eased.

PittCorp moves HQ to Queensland

1 December 2010. PittCorp CEO, Trevor Pitt, today announced that the company HQ had moved from Glebe in Sydney NSW to Windaroo on the QLD Gold Coast.

"We badly needed more space for expansion", he said in a statement today. "Glebe's 96.4 m² was no longer enough for our needs", he continued. "Windaroo, however, has more than 700 m² of land plus a very much larger building. It already has the infrastructure necessary for the new PittCorp Aquatic Centre, and we have plans for an Aquaculture Division.

Markets rallied following the news.

Recipes

My recipes cater for all tastes (so long as your taste includes lots of garlic and an abundance of chilli). They are tasty, innovative and easy to prepare.

They were originally written for my novelty Christmas cards, which consist of recipes collected during the year and a tiny space where I scribble my name. I hate both shopping and writing individual comments, and the cards were a way of getting out of both those arduous tasks.

I also started making panforte as part of the same goal. The panforte in a good year^‡ is excellent!

‡ In 2003, for the first time since 2000, a very select few overseas friends received a sample or two. Luckily, it was delivered incident-free, so no-one ended up behind bars (in the packed state, panforte has been described as looking like "hash cookies packed in coke"). I only make the stuff.

As the collection grew, slowly, friends tried to get me to publish them as a book; but without a "name" author with his/her own TV show, this was not going to happen.

So this section of the pitt.net.au website gets the recipes out for you to enjoy.

Boring techo stuff

The recipes are now in Quadralay's WebWorks Help 5 format, converted from my Adobe FrameMaker 8 files (many were written originally in FrameMaker 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7; and before that, in Ventura Publisher 3).

The major features of this format are that it is cross platform, with optional contents page, index, search facility and favourites tab. Of course, I've used FrameMaker files for my source, but ePublisher also accepts Word and XML files.

This new version has a much faster and more accurate search engine, and appears to have no styling limits. It also includes a few other little surprises, such as the PDF button at the top right of the window. I have built and incorporated a PDF version of each recipe so that users can click the PDF button while viewing the HTML page to open the PDF version for printing, viewing and saving.

Click the WebWorks link to open the full Help. You can also open the complete original book by clicking the PDF link below.

open recipes!