WednesdayMorning

Hey guys,

Well anyone wondering what a tatty, its a potato. It’s nothing terrible and yes it was just something to get a catchy title with . Can’t blame me thought, can you?

Well its been weird to get back into blogging, I’ve had some blogs every so often. Never many people reading them and I’ve grown to  not care too much about that and more about doing it. Firstly I’m going to talk about my tatties and then move onto some of the tech news thats interested me the last few days.

Well thats me outside, the fire has since died down and my potatoes are done. I was planning to blog while I cooked but found I got far to distracted. So I just enjoyed myself instead. I don’t know how many of us that gave up the bright scary world for things that go beep know the subtle art of trying to get a fire going but to tell the truth two days ago I didn’t either. My girlfriend however seemed to know what shes doing and now I’m pretty good at it myself. Some things to remember, at least in Britain. If your burning wood from the garden, chances are its dampish and is going to smoke like anything so use firelighters to get it going because at the end of the day you’ll only end up with a headache from smoke inhalation if you don’t. Another tip, stick some larger pieces by the sides when you’re getting started to let it get warm and toasty.  Now this stuff is obvious but when you’re getting going and only want to see stuff burn it doesn’t always come to mind.

Well the end result was some tasty baked potatoes, I enjoyed them and will defiantly be doing this again. For these medium sized potatoes it took only an hour to get them nicely done however the smokey wood has caused some carbon on the skin but its all goodness from the garden .

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Away from the world to tasty treats to the world of beeps and gadgets. Lots of things to pick, as like everything in computing the news is fast paced. Well the biggest story of the last day and a bit would be that Snow Leopard, I don’t like macs really. It’s Linux on extremely expensive hardware and as my friend put it yesterday it combines the worst aspects of windows and Linux, you don’t get the open, flexible working environment of Linux and you don’t get the software and hardware support of windows. Now I would agree with that but I’m not mac expert, anyway if you’d like to read more about that then I’d check out http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/25/preview_os_apple_snow_leopard/ . Another Mac/Snow Leopard related story that is quite interesting is that Apple are releasing an Anti-virus with their newest OS. I’m considering this prudent planning rather than expecting a lot of virus’ on their platform, Mac’s are becoming more popular and thus may be the target of malicious users however just to point out the obvious, this is all speculations I haven’t seen apple confirm it yet but It’s not difficult to imagine (http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/1839246/Report-That-OS-X-Snow-Leopard-May-Include-Antivirus).

Well speaking of virus’ it seems that Jessica Biel is now in the lead nfor the most dangerous malware celebrity, so if your thinking about getting a sexy screensaver then think again! (http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/08/obsessions-with-jessica-biel-lead-to-a-world-of-malware-hurt.ars). These things honestly make me wonder why people would think to download these, then again we live in a world where computer literacy has large divides and some people just seem unable to learn or keep up. Linux is always a good solution to your virus worries apart from the quite major security holes in it over the last few months it is relatively safe from attack and a good linux to start with is Ubuntu. Interesting stuff happing with Ubuntu these days as Thursday is the feature freeze (http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Thursday-is-Feature-Freeze-for-Ubuntu-9.10) and as always there are a few changes to be made. It was announced a while back that banshee would become the default media player for Ubuntu which caused the “Mono Wars” to burn a little harder and now it seems they’re sacking Pidgin for Empathy.

I’m going to end on a funny, It seems that Microsoft have had a little blunder in a photo (http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/microsoft-sucks-at-photoshop/). I’ll leave it up too you to see whats happened but lets just say that a company worth as much as Microsoft could have at least taken more than one photo for different regions.

Until next time

Darius