Get KUMA-phyed!

I just got back from our Sunday School Chili Cook-Off party. And guess what. I won!!!!!! It was a close race, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place were separated by 1 vote, among six or seven pots of chilies.
I feel I am obligated to share the original recipe I found on [...]

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i pretty much played with suse all day. i test installed a copy. first i tried that cd booting thing. wow. that was cool. just boot suse off of a cd.
then i installed suse onto the internal harddrive and tested it. well, it is prettier than redhat. [...]

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I started to use Thunderbird at work. Wow, this is the fastest mail client i have ever used. I have tried outlook express (aka virus spreader), opera mail, netscape mail, eudora, mail (os x’s mail client) and lots more. But tbird just beats socks off of all of the client i have [...]

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i have been talking about my problem with winDOZE in my office. so tody, i just wiped my desktop dell completely and installed redhat9. it is smooth and it’s FREE!
i got to my office, downloaded three iso’s, burned them onto cds, then installed them with apache, php, and mysql. yes it is [...]

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well, i did not want to add technology in my category, but i do talk about it a lot here. so here it is. since i spend 1/3 of my weekday dealing with it, may be it is a bigger part of my life than i thought it was.
i don’t feel like [...]

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The rootkit is everywhere. (Well, since we can not see what it is, it is kind of hard to definitely say the rootkit, but we think it is.) It is really hindering our work. My desktop dell, which is used as a paper weight right now, can not even connect to the [...]

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I haven’t listen to “Physical” by Olivia Newton John in probably 10 years. I just notice that guitar solo sounds very much like Toto’s Steve Lukathur, one of my all time favorite rock guitarist. Listen and compare, will you?
First listen to Physical solo
Now compare that to “99″ solo
Then I found this site listing [...]

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子供のころ河口湖ではわかさぎがよくつれました。穴釣りしたり、または引き網で取っているところにいって漁師さんに安く分けてもらいました。そのわかさぎはマリネにして食べたのをよく覚えています。

わかさぎのマリネ
わかさぎ ２０～30尾
たまねぎ １個
にんじん　１本
マリネ液
　　砂糖 大さじ３
　　米酢 １カップ
　　だし汁 １カップ
　　酒 大さじ２
　　みりん 大さじ２
　　薄口しょうゆ 大さじ４
　　赤唐辛子の小口切り １本分
塩 適量
酢 少々
薄力粉 適量
サラダ油 適量
1. わかさぎは塩水で洗ってザルに上げ、水気を切る。内臓はとらなくていい。
　
2. たまねぎは薄切り、にんじんは千切りにする。すべてバットに入れる。
　
3. 鍋にマリネ液の材料を入れて火にかけ、ひと煮立ちしたら 2のバットに注ぎ入れる。
　
4. 1のわかさぎの水気をよくふき取り、薄力粉を薄くまぶし、中温に熱したサラダ油でカラッと揚げる。
　
5. 4のわかさぎを熱いうちにバットに入れ、しばらく漬け込んでから器に盛る。

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Here is another one of my Pho report.
One of my Chinese friend recommended this place (actually took me there for lunch a few times) and swears that this is the best soup place in town. And yes, they are pretty good.

Pho Huynh Restaurant 3017 Milam St. 713-524-3788
In order to [...]

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Do you remember Microsoft Works? I had to deal with it in late 90′s, because one of our client was using it. Then I thought “What an oxymoron, Microsoft Works!”. Microsoft NEVER works.
Guess what. Now it is Apple’s turn, iWork. (Microsoft Office doesn’t!) iWork, $79 production tool, is a [...]

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