Monthly Archives: August 2006

Food feeds and chocolate chip cookies

2006-08-31 – 15:49

Cooking for Engineers is on my list of feeds, so I get notified whenever Michael posts a new article. His latest on Nestle Toll House Cookies got me thinking about cookies, and reminded me of the Good Eats episode on cookies. I appreciate Michael’s investigation of flour amounts, and when you think about it in […]

By frank | Posted in Food and Drink | Comments (0)

FATS Trail Work Party

2006-08-26 – 18:01

This morning I met up with about a dozen other people to do some trail maintenance on the Fork Area Trail System, a really nice network of several intersecting trails just across the river from my house. This was my first work party, and it was fun, hard work. It was nice just to […]

By frank | Posted in Cycling | Comments (0)

Macports is trickier than it should be

2006-08-25 – 12:48

macports, formerly Darwinports, looked to be a good, easy way to install and maintain a bunch of unix-based libraries and applications. After using it for a while, I see it has either design flaw or a documentation flaw. My use case is simple: I want my macports system to have installed and active only the […]

By frank | Posted in Software development | Comments (1)

Debugging cascading style sheets

2006-08-24 – 06:48

While trying to figure out the style sheet’s on Andrea’s blog last weekend, I poked around Safari’s debug menu, thinking, they interpret these things hierarchically for rendering, so how hard could it be to build an inspector for it that would associate the rendered elements on the web page, the source as presented to the […]

By frank | Posted in Geek | Comments (0)

Sweet potato salad

2006-08-22 – 07:13

We FINALLY brought a dish to Grandma’s birthday party that someone ate besides us:

Sweet Potato Salad
From: The Thrill of the Grill
4 medium sweet potatoes (about 2 pounds cut into uniform large pieces
1/2 red bell pepper, seeded and diced small
1/2 green bell pepper, seeded and diced small
1/2 large red onion, diced small
4 T finely chopped […]

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