Monthly Archive: October 2008

Oct
31

Recipe: Toffee Apple Muffins

I stole this from a Gordon Ramsey recipe on a Website, but with the sheer volume of Windfalls at this time of year, it’s a fun and tasty recipe to try out! Makes 12 350g plain flour 2 tsp baking …

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Oct
11

Recipe: Eggy Bread

This is a great comfort food!  and is quick and easy to boot, even if it CAN be a little messy!  I like to use a plain Brioche loaf, but that’s because I’m not keen on the Sultana’s etc in …

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Oct
11

Technology: MSN Woes

I’m a fairly big MSN Windows Live Messenger user, but I’m starting to think that might change fairly soon. I started to experience some annoyances with the current 8.5 version of WLM.  It started to “jump” to focus, if I …

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Oct
10

Technology: SPLUNK! Take the SH out of IT….

Yes, you read it correctly!That’s one of many clever tag lines used by Splunk’s Marketers!  And it’s not half as clever by far as the Application! It’s another free product!  Amazingly, the basic version of Splunk is gratis!  and can …

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Oct
10

Technology: VMWare ESXi Server

Good old VMWare has come a long way from the days when it used to run under a Guest Operating System (normally Windows or Linux) and allowed you to create a Virtual Machine with it’s own independent OS and footprint …

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Oct
10

Recipe: Cider Chicken Tagliatelle

This recipe was adapted from the BBC TV Series “Ready Steady Cook” on BBC2, and with a few additions has been quite popular with my family and friends each time I prepare it.   My recipe’s aren’t too formulaic, they evolveeach …

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