Monthly Archives: June 2005

Carrel.ORG – GPGMail and Mac OS X 10.4.1

Carrel.ORG – GPGMail and Mac OS X 10.4.1: http://www.carrel.org/2005/05/16/gpgmail-and-mac-os-x-1041/

Excellent: works a charm !

UPDATE: Well, maybe not. Just had Mail die during a composition when trying to change the quote level, and upon restart it told me I no longer have a GPG key, and my draft has vanished entirely… Not ideal behaviour, really: maybe it was disabled by Apple for a reason ?

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an excuse to buy an iPod…

PodSmith: http://www.makienterprise.com/podsmith/index.html

Yesterday’s price reduction on the 1GB iPod Shuffle pays for the licen[c|s]e for this program, and means I finally have an excuse to get one.

Other than they’re small and shiny.

Oh, and they play music.

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Boffins create zombie dogs | The Other Side | Breaking News 24/7 – NEWS.com.au (27-06-2005)

Boffins create zombie dogs | The Other Side | Breaking News 24/7 – NEWS.com.au (27-06-2005): http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15739502-13762,00.html

This surely can’t be real, can it ?

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sweetcorn and sunflower bread

After a conversation with my Mum about various loaves she’d tried recently whilst on holiday in France, here’s a more interesting savory loaf (based on the cinnamon and raisin recipe):

380g Strong White flour (Tesco)
120g Strong Stoneground Wholemeal flour (Tesco)
1 tsp Yeast (Allinsons)
1 1/2 tsp Salt
1 tbsp Sugar
1 1/2 tbsp Milk powder
350ml Water
20g Sunflower seeds
80g Sweetcorn

I took the sweetcorn straight from the tin and blotted it slightly with some kitchen roll to reduce the moisture before adding both it and the seeds to the nut dispenser. The setting was a 4hr raisin bake, as I suspect the same problems that I had trying to get a rapid cinnamon and raisin loaf would also hit here, and for an extra testing measure left it on a timer setting whilst I went to work.

The result ? Well, it looks and tastes ok, but it doesn’t really seem to have much of a flavour; perhaps there wasn’t enough sweetcorn in it, and it should be bumped to 100g (like the raisins), or perhaps I need to try it again after the taste of my dinner has gone :)

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apples real new stratgey for world domination – p2p piracy ?

Apple Matters: http://applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/apple_computer_is_piracy_the_pathway_to_profits/

Interesting: not an approach I’d even contemplated as an option, but one which is quite possible. To get an idea of Apple’s opinion on this tactic I’ll wait to see if/when any OS X Intel 10.4.1 sharers receive letters from Apple’s lawyers and what sort of fines are mentioned.

I’m not convinced that this will help once the newer hardware and a later version of OS X arrives, as:

  1. who is going to hunt out hardware from a year or two or three ago to run this stuff ?
  2. are you going to snag a copy now and hold off until the new hardware appears before deciding about the OS ?
  3. would you really go to all this effort to run (for example) Windows 95 in order to see how well Windows XP suits your needs ?
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