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The Internet – FamilyFriendlyNet.com
Posted on October 29th, 2009 No commentsWe’re introducing Family Friendly Net. A simple and easy way, yet effective to block inappropriate content on the internet from reaching your home or home business.
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ABC Peanut Butter Chocolate Chippers (aka ABCPBCC)
Posted on October 28th, 2009 4 comments
Yes, it is time…. to post the only recipe I ever wrote, and at that the best one I ever wrote.
All the others have not made it down to the written text yet
I put this together at about 12 years of age or so, and since then each time I’ve made them it’s been a family event.
So here it is for your enjoyment! Just remember, these cookies require a personal touch. Don’t look at the recipe as a law book, but only as something to guide you in the right direction.
Main Important Ingredients: Chocolate Chips, Peanut Butter, Brown Sugar.
Cooking Time: 10 minutes a plate at about 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Author: Arthur Wiebe Revision: 20,051,122
Full List of Ingredients:
4 3/4 cup Flour
1 1/4 tsp. Salt
1 3/4 tsp. Baking Soda
1/4 tsp. Baking Powder
3/4 cup Peanut Butter
1 1/4 cup Softened Butter
2 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
1/2 cup White Sugar
2 tbsp. Vanilla
2 tbsp. Corn Syrup or Honey
3 Medium Sized Eggs
4 tbsp. Whole Milk or Light Cream
3+ cup Chocolate Chips
1 1/2 cup Walnuts or Pecans (Optional)Instructions:
1. In a mixing bowl, mix Flour, Salt, Baking Powder, and Baking Soda.
2. In a larger bowl mix Peanut Butter, Butter, Brown Sugar, White Sugar, Vanilla, Corn Syrup, Eggs, and Milk.
3. Now stir in the mixed dry ingredients into the mixed wet ingredients in 3 intervals.
4. Slowly stir in the Chocolate Chips and Nuts.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 8-11 minutes.Once out of oven, wait 7 minutes for cookies to cool and bond.
Copyright 2005-2009 Arthur Wiebe (Do not use for illegal purposes, and do not sell it without giving me some revenue) -
Mozilla Raindrop Continued….
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 No comments
As promised this evening I continued my adventure with Mozilla Raindrop. This time configuring it with a couple of accounts. A Gmail account and a Twitter account.Thoughts:
- As before I found the process very easy. Even though the current prototype requires me to create a .raindrop config file and I’m concerned that the passwords on this config file are not hashed or anything, which I suppose is not possible for technical reasons. I’d rather have the passwords stored in some secured database.- It synced the Gmail account just fine, and immediately auto-detected two of the mailing lists that existed in the account and synced the folders without a problem. But I am interested to see how immediate the IMAP synchronization is. I would like to see it use the IMAP idle command to make messages come in almost instantly as Mac Mail does. But remember this is a prototype so I don’t expect a finished product here, in fact I’m interested in possibly writing my own raindrop plugin for server alert systems.
- Also the Twitter account I added worked very well, the recent tweets all appeared and Raindrop imported all the accounts I was following as contacts along with their thumbnail images. Very nice.
There are two things which after about 10 minutes of playing with it I’m wondering about. There an ability to send a message. How do you define where that message is supposed to go to.
Can this replace a normal email client? I think it has the potential. But like we all know this is prototype, and there’s a bunch of great people working on it! -
Mozilla Raindrop First Impressions
Posted on October 23rd, 2009 3 commentsI’ve installed Mozilla Labs Raindrop 0.1 on my local machine running Mac OS X 10.6 (Leopard).
First impression, it’s very easy to install and get going with from a technical point of view. I already had macports installed and so I installed couchdb, mercurial, and most of the python dependencies using macports for easy management and the ability to easily upgrade them.After that it was just a matter of running the raindrop configure script which downloaded the extras like twitter, skype, and paisley python modules and away we go!
So that’s it for now, at the side you’ll see a screenshot of the browser window I get right now. It’s not configured yet or anything like that, but more is coming!
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This Isn’t Just Any Raindrop
Posted on October 22nd, 2009 No commentsFrom Mozilla Labs, introducing Mozilla Labs Raindrop!
You thought I was excited about Google Wave? Just wait until you see what happens with Mozilla Raindrop.
Here’s a short video:
http://www.vimeo.com/7197666Currently a 0.1 prototype, I don’t think we can compare this with Google Wave just yet. It seems to be more of an RSS reader than a whole new way of communication. An aggregator of sorts.
It takes your email, twitter, facebook, etc. messages and combines them all in once place.But I have not checked it out in detail yet, but will be sure to post more if I do!
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Enjoy the Ride. There is No Return Ticket
Posted on October 9th, 2009 No comments
George Carlin on aging!Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old, you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions. ’How old are you?’ ’I'm four and a half!’ You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five! That’s the key. You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead. ’How old are you?’ ‘I’m gonna be 16!’ You could be 13, but hey, you’re gonna be 16!And then the greatest day of your life! You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony.
YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There’s no fun now, you’re Just a sour-dumpling.. What’s wrong? What’s changed? You BECOME 21, you TURN 30… then you’re PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone… But! wait!! ! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30,
PUSH 40, REACH 50 and make it to 60. You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it’s a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday! You get into ! your 80’s and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; ‘I Was JUST 92.’ Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. ‘I’m 100 and a half!’May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
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Latest Flip4Mac WMV Beta Installs Microsoft Silverlight by Default
Posted on October 6th, 2009 2 commentsSo this is what the world has succumb to. I had been careful not to install the Silverlight virus on my computers since it’s inception, but today I almost got tricked into it. This is bad.
UPDATE!! Here’s a little script you simply double click on to remove Silverlight from your computer.
