Mind Circus

It’s a title that may need a little explanation.

Lately, work and life have been a bit crazy and I’ve had very little time to blog anything of merit. I began to experiment with twitter to post short updates on things. then as time got more constrained, my twittering increased and blogging floundered.  At this point, I figured it’d be a good idea to integrate my twitterings directly into the blog feed to prevent things going stale.

I was wrong.

Last week, I started to get the feeling that the integration wasn’t working. The blog didn’t feel right; something more akin to a life status feed rather than a blog :/

Then Danny sent me some constructive feedback this morning. He’s right: the tweets just create too much noise; and quickly, any value that the blog had evaporates.

So, the integrated “in-feed” twitter updates are gone. They’re still in my sidebar, but you’ll no longer see them as part of the RSS feed or in the normal blog bits.

I’m hoping now that the ratio of Signal vs Noise can be restored.

Cheers,
Phil

The more I see and hear about the various projects that are going on inside DisplayLink, the more exicted I get about what we’re doing, and where we’re going to go.

The vision of some of the people in this company is phenomenal, and I’m proud to be along for the ride.

The more I play video content from a USB stick on the Xbox 360, the more I want a TV that can play content directly from a USB Mass Storage Device.

Surely it can’t be that hard? I’m thinking possibly something like a tiny Linux distribution embedded into the TV, something akin to the “Instant Play” feature on many laptops.

This is a tricky one.

I have decided to close the AirPcap posts to comments.

It’s been nearly a year since I began blogging about CACE Technologies’ AirPcap adapter, and over 6 months since I last touched an AirPcap adapter. The posts are now pretty stale and I haven’t kept up with developments in Windows WEP Cracking, making discussion on them rather irrelevant. I also just don’t have the time nowadays to respond to every email and blog comment that I get from the articles.

Sucks, but that’s the way it goes sometimes…

After cutting out a good 99% of dairy from my diet, I managed to make myself lactose intolerant.

These delicious cookies are not just free from dairy, they’re free from all animal ingredients

You’ll need…

• 225 grams of dairy-free margarine at room temperature (1 cup)
  • Pure, Suma and Vitalite are all Dairy-free margarines.
• 280 grams sugar (1.25 cups)
  • Fair-Trade if you can
• 1 tablespoon molasses
  • Molasses is sometimes hard to find in supermarkets. Try somewhere like Holland and Barrett or your local health food store.
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 280 grams all-purpose flour (2.5 cups)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• A pinch of teaspoon salt (I don’t use any at all)
• 100 grams of Dark chocolate chips (1.5 cups)
  • SuperCook Plain chocolate chips are good – and Dairy free.

I have tried to quote products available in the UK, but you can find most of these ingredients in your local supermarket or health food store.

Let’s go…

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius (350 F)
2. Cream together margarine and sugar until fluffy.
3. Add molasses and vanilla
4. Add the flour, baking soda, and salt – Mix well.
5. Fold in the chocolate chips
6. Put on an ungreased baking tray, in teaspoon fulls, 5cm apart. (2 inches)
7. Bake for 8-10 mins – until slightly browned. Don’t leave them longer – they might not look ready after 10 minutes, but they are, trust me!
8. Leave to stand for a minute and slide them off onto a cooling rack before running your next batch.
9. Have a sneaky one while you’re waiting for the rest to cook, then share and enjoy!