Pigeon and Potato Salad
Thu 2010-03-04 01:01
Sadly I've not had the time to write much in the last few months, and especially haven't written many food entries. I've started many, but they get stale before I can complete them. I'll try to keep this one short!
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Snow!
Sat 2010-01-09 20:38
With a new year well and truly underway, first week of work past and all, I thought I'd better reflect on things. Nah, stuff that. I'm off to Australia on the 15th, jumping from the sub-zero to the over-30 temperatures of the West Coast – perhaps even 40! We'll see. While I'm there my 30th birthday will pass, in lieu of having some sort of third-life-crisis I think I'll just enjoy the heat and sunlight.
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The Nightingale
Tue 2009-12-29 23:48
The Nightingale is what we consider our "local". It is a, mostly, relaxed and friendly locals' pub with great beer. There is a core of regular drinkers from an interesting variety of backgrounds, from foreign imports like ourselves to people who've lived in the area since the day they were born. From time to time there is live music, and other special events – but not every weekend (that'd be a bit much, some people want a quiet drink on a Saturday evening!) There's a huge half-covered patio area out the back, with summery BBQs and heaters for the poor smokers in winter (while I feel sorry for them, I'm glad of the smoking ban, without it I'd be outside or not going to pubs.) A lot of the activity in the pub revolves around the seasonal pool and darts leagues, there's also a Thursday dominoes league. Us, we're useless at pool and don't know how to throw a dart, we're there for the beer, company, and conversation.
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Happy retirement GSSP-C!
Tue 2009-11-03 19:19
Some time ago I wrote about the GSSP-C exam. Being a certification non-believer I thought it would be interesting to have a poke at a certification. The one in question being the, at the time, new GSSP-C (GIAC Secure Software Programmer in C.) It seemed at least relevant to my work (mostly C/C++ back then) and my industry (the dirty world of infosec.) In general I was impressed by the practical resources and also by the message the people behind the exam (SANS) were trying to get across. Afterall… many software security issues are caused by bad programming, the GSSP-C seemed a worthy attempt to address this.
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Oct 21 @ 22:03 Backporting an Ubuntu/Debian Package - spatialite for Jaunty
Sep 28 @ 11:03 Hitchin XC Cycle Route
Sep 20 @ 20:38 Cornwall, August 2009
Aug 31 @ 21:01 Café Snowdon
Aug 16 @ 19:49 Lakes Day 7 - Three Tarns
Aug 02 @ 23:10 Lakes Day 6 - Great Langdale
Aug 02 @ 21:37 Lakes Day 5 - Pottering About
Aug 02 @ 19:43 Comments
Jul 30 @ 00:31 Lakes Day 4 - Walna Scar Road
Jul 28 @ 00:15 Lakes Day 3 - The Harter Fell Ordeal
Jul 27 @ 01:17 Lakes Day 2 - Café Scafell
Jul 26 @ 19:05 Lakes Day 1 - Getting There
Jul 03 @ 08:27 Stour Valley Path
Jun 21 @ 20:33 Expedition Planning
Jun 15 @ 00:24 Preliminary Lakes Route
Jun 14 @ 20:02 Belated Postcard from Barcelona
May 18 @ 09:49 Barcelona, Day 1
Apr 18 @ 20:14 Tulips
Apr 12 @ 18:52 Chunky Beetroot, Celeriac, and Potato Soup
Mar 29 @ 21:28 Migration
Feb 27 @ 00:23 aNotment
Feb 15 @ 20:16 Got the Whole Process Wrong?
Jan 30 @ 21:40 Jan2009 Goodies
Jan 18 @ 23:04 For the Love of Food
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