http://www.brassedoff.net/wp Family outings, Geographing, Linux, Java, RC boats, work... Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:24:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love it when someone gets their comeuppance. It happened earlier today in spades... We were outside Morrisons on Meadowhead in Sheffield (here on google maps) in a queue of traffic going down the hill. Behind me was a young woman in a black Audi TT. Down the inside (the bus ... http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=822 A little bit of fun in the snow this afternoon with our home made sledge Click for photo http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=820 Working from home today. The Mrs has a hospital appointment for some physio and Dan's school is closed. Snow is everywhere hence the school closure. This is the view from the study window looking across towards Wales Bar with the sun making the snow look positively idyllic! Last night, the road ... http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=817 I get to travel to Dusseldorf fairly regularly and have developed a taste for the local alt-bier. I was delighted then to find that Brupaks did a dry ingredient alt-bier kit. I recently made a Brupaks premium lager kit which was excellent (all brewing sugar so fairly light) and decided ... http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=815 After three years of being a Blackberry user, today I make the next leap of faith and move over to an iPhone. "Why?" I hear you ask. Well, I'm finding myself increasingly using services like Twitter whilst on the move (not literally) and as I'm also doing a fair amount of travelling, ... http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=813 Conscious as I have been for a while that I've been collecting a lot of records in my CurrentCost energy log table, I thought I'd better do something to tidy it up a bit as I had a bit of spare time this morning. A quick check showed a gnats over ... http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=810 Ok, so I've got Rosegarden working now and I can play back the music I've entered using a soft synthesizer (QSynth) and everything's working just fine. I've spent a few minutes knocking together a quick two-part arrangement of a Christmas Carol for Dan and myself to play for the Santa  Publicity ... http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=803 One of the bits of software I've never managed to get going on myLinux machine is the music editing and sequencing software, Rosegarden. I've been using Linux for years but never managed to crack  this goal... until today. I was cruising the blogosphere earlier in the week looking for inspiration.  I've ... http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=800 We've not had an awful lot of produce out of the garden this year, but we have had a good crop of chillis of various varieties. They've been dried by hanging them in the kitchen then these have had a blast in the airing cupboard. Consequently, these rattle and there's ... http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=797 One of our French users received an email regarding a tax issue with the UK tax authorities (HMRC). The URL started off ok, but turned out to be a little nasty: (Please don't click it) http://online.hmrc.gov.uk.nyyyyase.com/SecurityWebApp/httpsmode/statement.php?{other id stuff redacted} nyyyyase.com turns out to be a cluster of machines dmlinux2:/home/david # host nyyyyase.com nyyyyase.com has address ... http://www.brassedoff.net/wp/?p=793