- Making a carrot and ginger cake... Should be interesting to see how that turns out. #fb #
- Of course, I should be sorting out the mountain of junk in the living room (all the crap that used to be in the spare room). #fb #
- Just heard a great line on Jeeves & Wooster, "Demanding marriage with menaces."
What a terrifying idea! #fb # - Waiting for my tablet to set... #fb #
- I want an iPad #fb #
- RT @whythemobile is giving away an Apple Tablet to one of their followers http://bit.ly/5yyi0m #ipad #
- Easy home assembly drop-leaf table... Lies, damn lies #fb #
- Delivered today... I have a spot at the back of a drawer lined up for it already. #fb http://yfrog.com/atawmj #
- Luxury: Highland Park in a Glencairn Glass and a big Dominican cigar while sitting on a big leather recliner. #fb #
Saturday 30 January 2010
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-31
- Making a carrot and ginger cake... Should be interesting to see how that turns out. #fb #
- Of course, I should be sorting out the mountain of junk in the living room (all the crap that used to be in the spare room). #fb #
- Just heard a great line on Jeeves & Wooster, "Demanding marriage with menaces."
What a terrifying idea! #fb # - Waiting for my tablet to set... #fb #
- I want an iPad #fb #
- RT @whythemobile is giving away an Apple Tablet to one of their followers http://bit.ly/5yyi0m #ipad #
- Easy home assembly drop-leaf table... Lies, damn lies #fb #
- Delivered today... I have a spot at the back of a drawer lined up for it already. #fb http://yfrog.com/atawmj #
- Luxury: Highland Park in a Glencairn Glass and a big Dominican cigar while sitting on a big leather recliner. #fb #
Monday 25 January 2010
Recipe: Tablet
One of my favourite sweets is tablet. Tablet is an extremely unhealthy, traditional Scottish, sweet which is made from butter, milk, and sugar.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 1/2 cup of water
- 4 oz of butter
- 2 lb of granulated sugar
- 1 large tin of condensed milk
- Vanilla essence or extract
Method
- Put the milk, water, and butter into a thick bottomed pan and heat gently until the butter has melted.
- Add the sugar and continue to heat gently until the sugar has melted and then bring to the boil.
- Boil the mixture for five minutes (gently stir continuously to prevent the mixture from burning).
- Add the condensed milk and boil for 10 to 15 minutes (continuing to stir). I find the mixture is usually ready between 12 and 13 minutes - but you can boil for a little longer if you prefer a darker colour.
- Remove from the heat, add a little of the vanilla, and beat the mixture for approximately five minutes until it thickens.
- Pour the mixture out into a greased Swiss-roll tin or baking sheet.
- Once set you can turn the tablet out of the tin and break into pieces (you may find it easier to break if you mark the pieces out with a sharp knife before the tablet has fully set).
Saturday 23 January 2010
Sorting out the home office
Today I have been sorting out my home office (second bedroom). I now have a much bigger, nicer, sturdier desk (old dining table - the new one arrives next week) and I can now put both my desktop monitor and my laptop next to each other.
The excellent Synergy program will let me use the desktop keyboard and mouse with both the desktop and laptop at the same time - but there is a catch.
Both of my computers are running Vista and the catch is this; when running Vista the UAC feature sometimes kicks in when you run an application and Synergy locks up. The way around this is to modify the Synergy short-cut to run Synergy as an Administrator. However, as I want Synergy to run automatically when I log in this causes another problem because that will trigger the UAC pop-up.
I do not want to disable UAC but I find this behaviour incredibly annoying. Fortunately, I have found a workaround. You can create a scheduled task under Vista which does not run automatically but can be run manually. This task can be set to run at a high privilege level without UAC kicking in and you can create a short-cut to run this as a command. Detailed instructions on using scheduled tasks to bypass UAC can be found here.
The excellent Synergy program will let me use the desktop keyboard and mouse with both the desktop and laptop at the same time - but there is a catch.
Both of my computers are running Vista and the catch is this; when running Vista the UAC feature sometimes kicks in when you run an application and Synergy locks up. The way around this is to modify the Synergy short-cut to run Synergy as an Administrator. However, as I want Synergy to run automatically when I log in this causes another problem because that will trigger the UAC pop-up.
I do not want to disable UAC but I find this behaviour incredibly annoying. Fortunately, I have found a workaround. You can create a scheduled task under Vista which does not run automatically but can be run manually. This task can be set to run at a high privilege level without UAC kicking in and you can create a short-cut to run this as a command. Detailed instructions on using scheduled tasks to bypass UAC can be found here.
Sunday 17 January 2010
Moved to MobileMe and upgraded Blog
Right...
Last night I bit the bullet and decided to move my email and gallery (still to do) over to MobileMe. It looks like an interesting service - the only problem being the hoops I had to jump through to get email to appear to come from my pre-existing email address. Unfortunately, I still can't email sent from the MobileMe website using that pre-existing address - if Apple would sort this out the service would be far more appealing.
I saw a number of people online trying to get MobileMe to work with a custom email address. Just in-case anyone is interested, here is what I did:
There is one disadvantage I have found here, which is that "Push" email won't work to the iPhone. I set up "Fetch" at a "15 minute" interval instead - I can live with this if it means emails I send come from the address I want them to.
Other geeky things I did last night were:
Last night I bit the bullet and decided to move my email and gallery (still to do) over to MobileMe. It looks like an interesting service - the only problem being the hoops I had to jump through to get email to appear to come from my pre-existing email address. Unfortunately, I still can't email sent from the MobileMe website using that pre-existing address - if Apple would sort this out the service would be far more appealing.
I saw a number of people online trying to get MobileMe to work with a custom email address. Just in-case anyone is interested, here is what I did:
- Find yourself a host for your domain that will forward your incoming email to your "@me.com" address (I already have a DreamHost account).
- Find yourself a host that will let you send outbound (SMTP) email with any "From:" address (I already have a DreamHost account and just set up a "dummy" email account for authenticating with.
- When setting up email on your computer use your custom email address as the "From:" address, the normal MobileMe settings for the inbound server, and the configuration for the host in step 2 (above) for the outbound settings.
- When setting up MobileMe on your iPhone disable the Mail option in the MobileMe account and add an "Other" (specifically IMAP) account for your MobileMe mail. Configure it in the same way as you did for your computer in step 3 (above).
There is one disadvantage I have found here, which is that "Push" email won't work to the iPhone. I set up "Fetch" at a "15 minute" interval instead - I can live with this if it means emails I send come from the address I want them to.
Other geeky things I did last night were:
- Remove my old gallery site - MobileMe gallery coming soon.
- Updated WordPress to the latest version.
- Update the WordPress "Twitter Tools" plugin - which means a link to this blog post should appear in my Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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