Mind Circus

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!

Microsoft have just reduced the price of the Xbox 360 - only £160 for the basic edition.

What’s kind of spooky is that, just over the weekend, I was saying that I was considering buying a 360 just to casually play mindless shoot-em-ups on.

Photo by hddod

Thanks to a high profile campaign by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver, the British public are buying less intensively-farmed chicken:

A new RSPCA poll shows the recent campaign on the plight of meat chickens reared in the UK each year – highlighted in programmes presented by Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall - has changed people’s buying habits.

The poll shows an amazing 73 per cent of consumers said that since recently discovering standard chickens were farmed in poor conditions they now buy chickens that have had a better life.

My vegan sister may have helped me over to the dark side( ), but I’m still very pleased that the public is becoming more aware of where their meat comes from and how it lived. Much kudos to the RSPCA, Hugh, and Jamie!

Yesterday it was announced that Prince Harry had been “secretly deployed” in Afghanistan for the past 10 weeks; his deployment and whereabouts kept secret through a pact between the Ministry Of Defence and the media.

Putting aside the very valid issues surrounding the safety of himself, and his comrades, it really does make me wonder what else is being kept from us via secret “agreements”.