Monthly Archives: December 2010

Breakfast Egg with Spinach and Parsley

Pretty simple, very delicious: Put one garlic clove, chopped, into a medium-hot pan with olive oil After 30 seconds, as garlic starts to open up, add a handful of chopped red bell pepper Saute a few minutes, then add a few chopped bits of good salami and fry for a minute Toss in a few [...]

Quick chocolate chip banana bread

Preheat oven to 400 (I used Conv Bake, but regular is fine) In a medium mixing bowl: chop up 2 ripe bananas with a spoon or scraper, then whip them a bit until the soften and get mushy add in 1 egg and blend it with the banana mush add 1/4 cup vegetable oil (I [...]

Inversion of Control/Working for the processor

I have been a big fan of Picasa for a number of years. I use it to manage the ever-growing set of digital photos I’ve taken since leaving analog behind in the late 90′s. Recently, I have been amazed at the steady improvements in the facial recognition capabilities built into the product, and I find [...]

Dealing with BindExceptions for port 8080 already in use on Mac OS X

Thanks to Henri Gomez’ post at http://blog.hgomez.net/?p=562 for a quick solution to move the HP Laserjet printer agent to another port instead of blocking 8080. The net is good.

Stay away from Carbonite for Mac OS X

I really wanted to like it. I waited through a month of uploading slowly to get a few hundred gigs saved. And I tried to talk to Tech Support several times to find out why I get this rotten behavior from the CarboniteDaemon: Hogging CPU while it shows as idle in its control panel Shows [...]