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Cooking with Amy
Cooking with Amy:
Perfect Peanut Sauce
1/4 c peanut butter (natural, no sugar added kind)
2 t soy sauce
1 T brown sugar
1 T fresh lemon or lime juice
1/4 c coconut milk (lite is fine, if you prefer or substitute water)
1/4 c water
red chili flake to taste
chili garlic sauce to taste or 1 clove crushed garlic
Optional:
curry paste
rice wine vinegar
fish sauce
grated ginger
shallots sauteed till brown in oil
Combine all ingredients with a whisk in a small bowl, adding the water last. Pour into a small saucepan and heat over medium heat until sauce begins to bubble and thicken. Experiment with this sauce adding a teaspoon at a time of one the optional additions and tasting as you go. Serve hot or cold.
Sounds great to me!
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Sunday, July 24
A geek's observation aout Stargate: Atlantis
I watched the second season episode of Stargate: Atlantis (I was thinking that it was the premier, but I was mistaken), and I noticed that they have updated some of their laptops with tablet PCs. I have no idea who makes them, nor who made the laptops for them.
I wrote Scoble a note about it, so it will be interesting to see what he has to say about it.
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Tuesday, July 19
All Along the Watchtower
All Along the Watchtower
Two Jehovah's Witnesses walk into an Indian restaraunt in Tokyo owned by two Hare Krishnas and proceed to have a debate, as witnessed by an American Buddhist.
This is not a joke.
It's still quite funny, but very good.
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Tuesday, July 12
Arab suspects escape from U.S. lockup in Afghanistan
Arab suspects escape from U.S. lockup in Afghanistan:
The escape from the heavily guarded lockup at the main U.S. base in Bagram sparked a manhunt for the suspects, identified as Arabs from Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya.
On a personal note, The_Rose heard from Garfield that he was in on this manhunt for the escaped prisoners. I guess this was after pulling a twelve hour shift, and then going hunting, and then pulling another 12 hour shift. He wasn't too happy about it.
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Friday, July 8
Cat blogging - a kitten for today
This is Stanley. He was an orphaned kitten that was found right when our first stray, Gypsy had her first litter. She took him without any issues, and he is now keeping a woman with brain cancer company.
Updated picture to new site 3/19/2008
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Thursday, July 7
London calling…
My sympathies go out to the British for their losses.
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Tuesday, July 5
VOIP may be hot, but I'm still not Peer to Peering
VOIP may be hot, but I'm still not Peer to Peering:
What's hot these days? Voice over Internet Protocol. But that doesn't mean I like the way that VOIP is offering up services in all instances. There are a couple of free [or near free] VOIP options that rely on the same technology as peer to peer technology...and well...let me just say that anythng that has the words 'peer to peer' ... I'd rather not have that technology in my network. Oh sure folks can say that they've run it with Snort and examined the packet flow across that and they didn't see any traffic inside their network...but I'll think I'll pass.
I don't understand this. Not at all. My response
With an attitude like that, just what are you doing on this here Intarweb?
P2P always has been the way that the Internet works. Talking about security risks just because something is peer to peer is just fearmongering. If you trully are that paranoid, you'd better disconnect that router and cancel that Internet connection!
We all know how to make computers completely secure. Unfortunately, following those steps also makes the computer totally useless.
You want us to ask the hard questions. I agree, as professionals, that's exactly what we are there for. As to issues about security and VOIP and P2P...
Is installing VOIP really like installing Kazaa? I really do not understand where this paranoia is coming from.
I won't get into the ridiculous captchas that are used. (evidently what I thought was a o was a 0 [alpha o versus the numeric digit 0]. I still think that captchas that go too far overboard (such as insisting on correct case!) and use a font that doesn't make any real difference between a 0 and a O don't prove shit.)
UpdateTurns out that the issue was one of the EULA. OK, I can agree with that. The EULA for Skype doesn't read that bad, but it also legitimizes the fact that Skype will turn your computer into some sort of super node/proxy/whatever if you have a fast enough connection. No way to opt out, no way to throttle the connection. In my case all my up bandwidth was being sucked by Skype and therefore not much was left for
my use, which I'm sorry, is there for
my use, not for Skype to just suck on whenever it wants to. In this case, I have to say that it's a problem with the actual application, not just because it's peer to peer. I've seen the same thing happen with a file sharing program called Grouper. Again, once I saw what was happening, I turned it off. Permanently.
I'm leaving Skype installed because there is a chance that one of my sons will have a working computer and will eventually get Skype installed, and then we can have transcontinental conversations on the cheap. I just won't be running Skype 100% of the time.
I still don't see the point of painting all peer to peer with the same brush that says that they are evil. Lots of software could be considered evil with or without the fact that it's peer to peer. Activation schemes for operating systems and other software come to mind.
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Monday, July 4
Overview
OverviewInteresting. As of Fiscal Year 2002, there are 34,726 MPs in the army. That does not include the
donation incarceration borgification endoctrination of my two oldest step sons.
See those two blue stars above? Those are there for my two sons. Click on them for more info if you want.
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Happy Fourth of July! ★★★ ☺
Happy Birthday USA!
NASA successfully hit a comet. A good success for them.
I woke up with a headache. ☹
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I'm now down to fifth place when I used to be #1.
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