Bread Recipes

         imported      Food

I’ve been experimenting with home-baked bread of late, and have been trying some recipes that haven’t worked out so well. So, now I’ve found a good recipe, I figured I’d put it somewhere that I can find it. Simple Wholemeal Loaf 500g wholemeal bread flour 7g sachet dried yeast 1.5 tsp salt 175 ml tepid milk 175 ml tepid water Mix together the flour, yeast and salt, and add the milk and water.

A Sad Day

         imported      ISP · LINX

At lunchtime today I was told via IRC/e-mail that Chris Orme, of Datahop passed away after a flight back from a peering conference in Florida. I’ve worked with Chris in the past, and despite having some differences of opinion, found him to be a great guy to work with. We had a disagreement about some contractual matters, and Chris was man enough to apologise to me in person at the LONAP 10th Birthday event.

ic.ac.uk fetchmailrc Settings

         imported      ic.ac.uk · Tech

Imperial College are currently implementing changes so that you need to access either POP3 or IMAP with SSL enabled, I figured since they didn’t list Fetchmail in their new site, then I’d post my configuration (.fetchmailrc) here in case anyone else uses it: poll icex.imperial.ac.uk proto pop3 user “USERNAME” password “PASSWORD” is “LOCALADDRESS” here ssl sslfingerprint “7D:E8:74:1F:E8:B1:E6:15:A6:0C:02:2B:BA:89:BE:4D” Enjoy.

Commuting Bike Stolen

         imported      Cycling · Crime

My Pinnacle Mean Streak 2.0 was stolen today from outside my flat (Pigott Street, E14). It’s a black, rigid mountain bike. The wheels are 26”, WTB rims, Shimano hubs. The groupset is Deore, and it’s got mechanical disc brakes. I locked it to a lamp post with a steel D-lock whilst I went upstairs, since my bike was greasy, and needed cleaning. It was nicked in the hour between 19:30 and 20:30.

A Social Experiment

         imported      Me

Let’s see how many people read the rubbish I post here. I have 40cm less hair. Update:

Django

         imported      Code · Tech · Geek · Work

Since I’ve got a few moments, and I’ve decided to actually write down some rants rather than deciding that I can’t be bothered to - I’m going to use some space to single the praises of Django. I’ve been using Django for a couple of years now - since around the autumn of 2005, and as such, feel that I’ve got a pretty good grasp of how the framework works. I haven’t really hacked around that much with the innards of Django (although I did propose a patch), however, what I really like about this framework isn’t particularly the internals, but just the whole philosophy that there seems to be in terms of building a web application.

crontab hacks

         imported      Tech · Geek

30 23 28-31 * * [ "`date +%m`" != "`date +%m --date=tomorrow`" ] && /Users/rjs/bin/monthEnd.py 2>&1 >/dev/null Pretty handy for running on the last day of the month - and should work on Linux.

RFID Presentation

         imported      ic.ac.uk · Tech · Geek · RFID

For anyone interested, the slides for my RFID presentation are here.

RFID Basics!

         imported      ic.ac.uk · Tech · Geek · RFID

So, at the moment, I’m writing a presentation about the operation and the security implications of RFID. During the course of the random searches around the internet, I’ve found that there’s a lot of really, really cool work going with respect to RFID. Even more great than the output on the subject is who is studying it. Lots of really cool observations are coming out of the open source friendly community - some of the best presentations on the subject are from presentations at CCC.

This was a fun ride.

         imported      Cycling · Route

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