Archive for April, 2009
Quoting The Register on a current hot topic:
…The principal swine flu vectors are: Airborne contagion, unprotected email and Facebook. Accordingly, issue staff with flimsy paper masks, confine them to their cubicles and ban them from social networking until the World Health Organisation says otherwise…
- zac.
So, I was looking for a nice way of creating a CSR and private key in Windows for a customer that didn’t involve icky command line stuff or installing more useless server software (read as: IIS) – Googling lead me to My Certificate Wizard, which is a seriously neat little utility for exactly this purpose.
Even nicer – it’s hippy software open source, so it’s completely free (though donations are encouraged). 
- zac.
From Drew’s blog at Toothpaste for Dinner:
In other news, more people read my Twitter than my blog. I know there are some grumblefucks who don’t like Twitter, but it’s the same group of frowners who didn’t like Myspace a couple years ago. Boo hoo, how I hate this new thing that lets people talk to each other online. Life was so much BETTER when there were only TWELVE of us online and IRC WAS JUST FINE THANK YOU. Now if you’ll EXCUSE ME I have a NETSPLIT to ride so I finally get the CHANNEL OPS I DESERVE.
Heh.
- zac.
Finally made it! Thinking about doing a Sydney run on Jetstar, purely to sample the First lounges in Melbourne and Sydney (Jetstar run a small handful of domestic flights from the international terminals, whereas Qantas don’t).
- zac.
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/7695/hot+cross+buns
Pretty good recipe. I’ve changed a few things – halve the number of raisins and top up with sultanas, add some cinnamon along with the mixed spice – but otherwise, yum!
Getting the cross right is tricky. The paste needs to be exactly the right consistency – too runny and it goes everywhere in the oven, too viscous and you can’t pipe it on to the buns.
Speaking of ovens, the 20-25 minutes will overcook them (this is in an electric fan-forced oven). Just over 15 minutes did the trick for me.
- zac.
