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Mexico Videos

Recently went to Mexico with a few other great folks, here’s a couple videos I put together a week ago.

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ABC Peanut Butter Chocolate Chippers (aka ABCPBCC)

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….

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

I’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!

This Isn’t Just Any Raindrop

From 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:

Currently 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!

Enjoy the Ride. There is No Return Ticket

Latest Flip4Mac WMV Beta Installs Microsoft Silverlight by Default

So 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.

• Download Removal Application Script
  

64-bit Firefox Up and Running!

From Josh Aas, “We got 64-bit Firefox running on Mac OS X today.”

And yes, I have gone back to Firefox. Actually currently I’m using a combination of Firefox, Safari, and Google Chrome.

Imagine If….

eyeOS – Not Bad, Has Potential

I just noticed today that eyeOS was featured on the Sourceforge.net POTM.

Because of the need at times to have a remote desktop to login to for testing, use for some kind of centralized computer, I had been planning on adding a virtual machine to my server to run a Ubuntu Desktop.
Instead, today I decided to give eyeOS a go.

So far it seems really nice. Has an simple document and spreadsheet capability. Notes, mail. File management.

I can see myself using it every now and then for sure. If you have not yet, check out eyeOS!

I’ve Switched, To Safari… For Now

Because after upgrading to Snow Leopard everything being so fast, Firefox just seems to be too far out of the loop. Just the responsiveness, launch time, etc. Almost seems I have no choice but to use Safari now. Firefox still has some great features that Safari is missing. But we’ll see how this goes.