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we just got our wedding photos in, the photographer, Mary Henry-Zeek, did a great job.
click on the photo for the full gallery.

AGHHHHH!

here are the recipes for the holiday cookies the wife and I made.

the fun sugar cookies:

• 1 bag of HEB sugar cookie mix. (follow the directions) * i know this isn’t technically a recipe, but the point of all this is the fun of painting cookies!

the paint, per batch, make this while the cookies cool, as it dries hard quickly.

• 1 egg white
• 1 tbs of lemon juice
• 167-174g of confectioner’s sugar
• wilton’s cake frosting coloring

1. whisk the egg whites and lemon juice together.
2. sift all the confectioner’s sugar and work it into your egg mix.
3. check consistency, it should be like a velvet.
4. separate out small batches for each color, and work in the color with a fork. Add more than it says on the box for colors that pop, use a tiny bit for subtle hues.
5. apply to the cooled cookies. I like to put paper towels under the cookie cooling racks and paint them there.
6. TIPS
   
   • get creative and have some fun. I use a ketchup bottle from the restaurant supply store (less than 1$) to apply dots and lines etc.
   • let the base coat dry hard if you want to have layers
   • use more sugar in your paint mix to get a real stiff line. I do this for the white batch i use for lines
   • make some coffee. nothing goes better with a sugar coma than caffeine

I got a hario grinder from Catalina Coffee the other day, and have been playing with it for a few hectic holidazed days. If you are not familiar with the Hario grinder, check out Jeremey’s review of the fiesty little hand toy. One minor issue is that it is a hand grinder, and for even 30g of coffee, it takes a bit of twisting.

My wonderful wife replaced my broken cordless drill for christmas.

Christmas gift + Hario == express grind !

i went to a meetup and had some great conversations about tech, life, and humanity. A particular conversation stuck a chord with me. It was about giving and a mini food drive done via twitter. The person who started this was talking about all they had been through, (and it is A LOT) and it struck me that giving love is one of the best ways to releive pain. when you give love, and little pain is carried away with it, and hopefully the world is a bit better.

noah, originally uploaded by el_en_houston.

i know the group “poor ugly infant’ is a bit tounge-in-cheek, but I wonder how my neighbors (the parents) would feel about it.

when booting to install/kickstart….

at the boot: prompt you can add some extra flags that make life easier.

two of my favorites:

multiple interfaces
for computers with multiple interfaces, define which interface will be the install interface

if you want it on a specific device:
boot: linux ksdevice=eth0
a less documented option is ‘link’ this puts it on the device that has a link
boot: linux ksdevice=link

for DHCP issues
if dhcp is not functional or not fast enough, you may get stuck with anaconda prompting the user at the console for ip information. If you do have dhcp on the network, and the server just isn’t patient enough, you may want to look at the portfast options on your switch. Alternatively
you may want to define the ip parameters at boot.

boot: linux ip=10.20.30.40 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.20.30.1 dns=10.20.30.41

some code to search AD via perl, a bit ugly, but functional for me.


#!/usr/bin/perl
# 05-30-2006 | initial draft | Luis E. Cerezo
use Net::LDAP;
$ldap = Net::LDAP->new( 'winDC' ) or die "$@";
$mesg = $ldap->bind( 'CN=Luis Cerezo,OU=Users,OU=Houston,DC=onshore,DC=pgs,DC=com',
password => 'S3cret!'
);
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Just a test from the iPhone.