Post #165106 by Kukoae on Sat, Jun 11, 2005 3:21 AM

Just this evening, I realised that I have more bandwidth than most countries (multiple 100BaseT feeds through several different Tier 1 providers), enough CPU and disk space to load thousands of copies of bloated Mac OSX (piggier than Windows, if such a thing was possible) and Windows XP combined.

I have alot of PHP/SQL code just laying around and begging to be refactored, and realised I could "digitise" the Intoxica recipes with almost very little effort.

Yes, yes, yes, I realise the far more comprehensive "cocktaildb" online resources fill every mixologist's heart's desire and then some, but I found it oddly lacking tonight when I wanted to find a drink that would "exercise" some newly acquired Alize passion fruit liqueur. None of the offered recipes were actually representative from Berry's books, which led me to conclude that a Tiki-oriented subset would be useful.

It could also serve as "checkpoints" for recipe variations both through time, and through the various interpretations.

Naturally, starting with the highest-quality source material, Berry's recipes, would be ideal.

I have no commercial exploitation interests in this, as such a project is far too limited in scope/interest to ever achieve something that could earn any significant income from it. Maybe as an XML/simple-web-app distributed with his books, it could be a useful adjunct.

I was just going to "do it" for myself anyway, until I realise I can't be the only tiki-person to be in such quandaries.

But of course, I realise Beachbum's works of art are fully protected by copyright law, and that such a work may "erode" the value of his works, which deserve support and the revenues they provide him.

Disclaimer:

My core income producing activities are providing very specialised services of extremely high security (penetration is not an option) and highly available bandwidth, so this is just a flea on the back of a rhino, riding on an aircraft carrier.

So.....

If Beachbum or any who represent him in matters of (c)opyright want to message me through this board with contact details, we can discuss whether or not such a (free) public web database would be either welcomed or permitted.

I will most likely develop it anyway (the effort is so minimal), but keep it internal for my own use if the answer is "no".

I think there would be some value in having alot of this information shared, and collated from not only Beachbum's archives, but others' as well.

Cheers,
=Kukoae=