A simple matter of…

Well today I’ve been testing Zimbra as a replacement for out useless outsourced Exchange provider. I’ll leave Zimbra for another day. Today was “why do people use windows?” day as I was doing a lot of testing with Outlook.
Problems hit so far today:

needed to reboot to install some updates (wouldn’t let me [...]

A bit of an update on wordpress (now on version 2.3). Raised a bug that it appears to break the website. Fortunately visiting the admin page presents an “upgrade DB” button which works the magic. Bit of a scary moment there (although being the sysadmin that I am I had dumped the [...]

We don’t eat steak and kidney pie like some families do. However I do really like this version. Let’s go through the checklist:

kidney (no)

steak (no - it’s pork fillet)

puff pastry (no)

shortcrust pastry (no, similar, but self-raising flour to make it lighter)

Still, it was nice, lasted for dinner, lunch and a light dinner too [...]

But it (down)pours

Well as a follow-up to the medium-well done steak, today’s steak was medium (if not medium-rare perhaps). Nice and juicy, though I still love the outside well done I’m afraid.
I’ll probably stick at this level for a while, perhaps having one well done in a while to see how it compares once I’ve become [...]

I have finally finished importing all the photos off my camera. I’ve hardly used it at all recently which is a shame. Last time I remembered the camera, but mistakenly believed that it had the battery in it. Oh well.
There is a link to the left (as always), or you [...]

Next weekend it’s time for another HantsLUG meeting. We have a security theme this month after a poll we did showed that was the preferred topic (thanks to those who took time to vote). I’ve just finished the slides for the OpenVPN talk I’ll be presenting - you can get them in both [...]

Well the first recipe I attempted needed focaccia bread which I couldn’t find and so I substituted panini bread instead. Deciding that just making one seemed a little pointless, I would make two. It turned out I was being a bit keen, after eating two of these (that’s a dinner plate BTW) I [...]

Well today I’ve finally cooked some steak medium-well - which is a huge improvement from the “very, very well-done” I normally do. I actually quite like my meat “burnt” on the outside and so traditionally (also as a family) that’s how we have always cooked it.
I had a crack at the main course from [...]

A nice side benefit of the weather today where it absolutely threw it down with rain was this very vibrant rainbow - you can also see the secondary rainbow just to the right.
A few minutes later and some clouds arrived which had the odd effect that the rainbow was just abruptly cut off at the [...]