things that only i could care about

bad security guide

Ok, this is a very bad take on security. Very, very bad: Using a second router: A techie how-to Ignore, if you will, the social aspects of if, why and how to police children online and just look at the totally stupid design proposal – he advocates a second router behind the main router, which [...]

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take a colour IQ test

Wow – this is actually quite hard, especially during the first cup of coffee on a morning: Take the test For the record, I scored 10, where zero was the best for my age range (sob !) but the worst a rather startling 1464. I can’ t even blame my monitor colour depth, although it [...]

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marblehilldancestudio.co.uk

Recently I’ve been having some fun with Rapidweaver and have used it to create a web site for Marble Hill Dance Studio which is run by Abigail Cova and is based in St. Margaret’s, London. The main theme was a stock item with customised colours and extended background motifs, but in the end the logo [...]

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strawberry and dark chocolate muffins

This is a very slight modification of the lemon and white chocolate recipe The depth of the muffin mould is the main issue for cooking time – I have some very deep (8cm) silicone ones that mean that it’s normally timed by eye with liberal use of a hat pin. If you use shallower trays [...]

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lemon and white chocolate muffins

This is a modification of a recipe I found last christmas, and have played with slightly in order to make them more unhealthy and bigger than most shop bought ones The depth of the muffin mould is the main issue for cooking time – I have some very deep (8cm) silicone ones that mean that [...]

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vanilla syrup cake: version 2.0

Having tested the original variant on friends and family, this new one has been tested on work colleagues – most appear to have survived. So far. 225g Self-raising flour 5ml Baking Powder Pinch of salt 50g Caster sugar 25g Margarine 110g Golden syrup 1 egg 120ml Milk 10ml Vanilla extract 20ml Flakes of 100% Cocoa [...]

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strange things are afoot at the circle k

Previously, most automated vulnerability probing I’ve seen on my systems has been brute force and fairly ignorant: one IP address tries many, many (and in some cases many, many and many) times to get in with varying credentials – the most blocked count recently was over 2500 attempts. This morning it all changed and the [...]

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