mango-ginger-chili at night

Ding ding ding...
And on our left side, Mango-Ginger-Tofu!!!!!
While on our right side, Chili Soy!!!!
To balance the whole dish, some couscous and rice. Let the tasteful fight begin!

The Ginger/Mango marinade is absolutely delicious. The bell-pepper (green stuff on top) is a great detail.
Some notes of improvement for future attempts:

• use less orange and lime juice, their taste just take over too much;
• add more green veggies to the rice, broccoli for example;
• replacing the jalapeno with some dried smashed chili gave a much appreciated little kick;
  

Jakob's Chili Soy was faaaaaab! He's totally into it and getting some great results out of his efforts.

Everybody was pleased and fed healthily - surely something everyone's mom will be pleased to know.


n.-

I saw you, it was incredible...

You, Lynard Skinnard-hat and
Me, little kitty
Sat across with a velvet jacket
Wild orange hair and dark, dark eyes
I gawked like a twelve-year-old - smitten
Carla the stripper,
straight from L.A.
You seem cool for a naked chick in a booth
Let's be pals some day
In other words,
Put some clothes on and call me

I saw you
It was incredible

Slim, relax,
Fine wine at the (QFC)
On a snowy Saturday night
Black pearls and I swear you were drinkin' beer
You were the redhead behind the counter there
I'm the one who fell off his chair there
You had your dry-cleaning and I think you're dreaming

I saw you
It was incredible
Mumbled these words at you
Unintelligible

My, my, my, my
My, my, my, my, my, my, my

My, my, my, my
My, my, yea hey-hey
Hey who had what time is it?


PS: This is all for the crescendo drum part, it's going to stay in my ear all night

same old, same old... for a change

Nothing much going on on N's Munich front.

• Germany qualified itself for the Euro2008 final happening Sunday night;
• I never know what to put on before going out (the best bet is still the "shorts + t-shirt" combination, it can rain but it won't be cold);
• a friend is staying over next week;
• I have some new poi tricks to practice on (which makes me think I need to research about the lef-/rightside brain "thing"...

So tonight is veggie-dinner night, 2nd episode. My proposal is a Mango Ginger Tofu. I'll be posting about the outcome, I can already tell that the marinade cooking in the kitchen smells terrific!!!! Just imagine mango, ginger, garlic, maple syrup and wine simmering for half-an-hour... it just awakens the notion pleasure with a totally new and amazing odor.

If only the people enjoying the veggie-nights also had room, a decent kitchen and wouldn't live too far away from downtown. It sucks to be the only one...

n.-

a good day to remember filthy words

George Carlin died this sunday - news report.
Besides the 7 words you can never say on TV (wikipedia list), the 2433 filthy word list words and a poster to remember them, there are lots of stand-up shows he made for HBO to watch and loads of audio Albums available.

n.-

Feng Shui in the mountains?

FENG SHUI
"Wir bieten hier die Möglichkeit, an diesem PLATZ KRAFT zu tanken" - "We supply here at this PLACE the possibility to fill up with ENERGY"

And this is the kind of stuff one can find in austrian mountains, more precisely next to the Hoch Kössen resort - a place they call the Paragliding Paradise.
I should have sat there for a little bit because I am waaasted tonight. All this sun and polen in my lungs brought me down big time, not the hike itself though:P

A calm night sleep is waiting for me.

n.-

the sky is gray...

... but the grass is still green.

Firefox 3 is out - Portable version recommended...

Opera 9.5 (portable too) came recently out too and it's FAST!!!! Hell-blazing fast, but looks like it has some issues with Blogger Post composing...

Google Reader is the best RSS aggregator/reader I had the chance to try...

The Heavy have the great dirty rock sound I so love...

Office Live is a great way to keep and share my Office Docs, it's Sharepoint based though :S...

The Kinks are now a permanent member of my 60's-70's artists...

July the 5th is another International Free Hugs day...

I so dislike the 80's-90's TV movies' acting and hairdos, just like the ones in The Bourne Identity (1988), the miniserie is great though...

... and The Hype Machine is the hardest music blog to keep up with, I just unsubscribed from that prick.


n.-

rejuvenating my MP3 player's playlist with random stuff

Stereogum can be an interesting blog to take some musical names from, but it's a bit like those fat daily newspapers (Expresso, Süddeutsche...) where I only read 5% from and put the rest aside. How many bands/singers can I digest in so little time?

Do I need to be an intense and speedy music lover?
I guess I'd need to stop wasting that precious listening time in useless activities like: going out, taking a shower, go get some groceries, work for a living.... In some of these situations, a portable (and waterproof) MP3 player could be "a" solution.

I love the fact that some previewed songs are available to download as an MP3 file - the Try-Before-You-Buy concept.

This year I discovered another blog, Largehearted Boy. It is also indie-oriented (like 90% of all music blogs) but it's worth spending 5-10mins downloading some new songs from the two main songlists, it supplies enough material to keep anyone entertained on his way to/from work/school:

• The Daily Downloads
• Try It Before You Buy It
  

These listings have enough good material to help me build my contribution for the CD exchange club I am part of.

A new folder just spawned in my Music Collection, it's called "Suggestions" and will host all those little tracks that can keep my ears fresh with new stuff.

Just for kicks, I googled for "mp3 blog"... and bang, heaps more places to legally (direct links from the artist's sites are provided) get some songs from.

This one for example sounds very promising, coast-is-clear, as it also provides songs from german/swiss/austrian artists. Let's see... downloaded 23 songs to the designated folder on my NAS, browse XBMC's Ajax web interface, four clicks and here I go for some further music discovery. I'll just crank up the volume while I take a shower (no, I have not gotten myself a pair of wireless waterproof speakers...)

The Hype Machine makes it all even easier (or harder, judging by the amount of daily additions) "The Hype Machine follows music blog discussions" they say:)
Just open the link, find a post and click the little "PLAY" button to stream it directly. To download the samples, the original post needs to be opened.


n.-

It could be a culinary adventure...

... but it was just a simple and almost safe experiment.


This is ragout, bolognese ragout. Based on the very simple Ragout-à-la-Rossella (celeri, onion, carrot and tomato sauce), today I decided to use some thyme while cooking and added 1/3 a mozzarella ball almost at the end.
I would like to have posted a much nicer picture, like how it looked like on a plate, covered with some delicious Parmesan (24 months old) and Basil, but it was just smelling too good to hold my appetite. (Not even need to mention how f'in delicious it was) This is a very repeatable recipe.


n.-

PS: Behind me, my current guest is watching Into the wild, at the part where the main character tries to get a bed for homeless people and identifies himself as "Alex Supertramp":D The OST promises great things, it's Eddie Vedder after all.

IT-Sec updates...

There has been so much going on, on the IT Security front.

F-Secure shows in a rather simple way how an Adobe Acrobat Reader vulnerability can be used - link
... and they even show how to create such malicious PDFs (considering you got the tools) - link
(links obtained from RHensing's post - here)

Microsoft warned about an Apple Safari for Windows issue - link
... but then a researcher wrote that the issue is just the tip of the iceberg and an IE/Windows vulnerability can be used to propel the issue even further - link

Adobe, according to RHensing, is just increasing its attack surface, almost "just for the fun of adding cool features" by allowing Javascript, and in the future, Flash data to be embedded into PDFs... just great... - link

Kaspersky calls for help to beat a new RansomWare's encryption key, it's REALLY nasty when a virus just encrypts YOUR data, making it unreachable/unreadable and asks for a ransom to decrypt it back - link1 - link2

Some genral simple concepts:
- Adobe Acrobat (Secunia link) as well as Adobe Flash (Secunia link) player from a security point of view, are widely known as swiss cheese ie. have lots of security vulnerabilities, they're always in the (secuurity) news aren't they?
- F-Secure and Kaspersky are top-notch AV vendors (no wonder that several banks propose their customers a discount for products of these two vendors)


n.-

PS: This post's picture was taken from Stuart King's blog post on Computerweekly - link
PPS: I am still... working on trackbacks... my apologies to the affected people

runners on posters

Tödliche Spiele = deadly games

84GHz had an exhibit space on the Street Life festival with these suggestive prints related/dedicated to the Olympic games in Peking.

N.-

Not looking but knowing it happened

Congratulations to the Portuguese soccer team on their 2-0 victory against Turkey on their first Euro 2008 game.

I wasn't there to cheer for you, a home dinner and a fire show kept me entertained. Thanks to all those with their SMS notifications:)


cheers

n.-

PS: what's the national cheer song this year? I hope they're not recycling the ones used in past cups.

Typing in "International"

Ditch your German, French, Portuguese and any other non-English keyboard layout because the English-International is here to save all those in need of special symbols in their daily typing.

For example, the German layout. It's a waste of space how the three characters ü, ä amd ö get a dedicated key. It takes me an additional double key press (Shift and double-quotes) to add the two little dots/strokes over those vowels and use the free keys for punctuation. Well, all those years of practice made me a relatively fast (blind) typer so an additional key press marginally affects me, but having to write in several languages, French, Portuguese, German and English, this flexibility is VERY welcome.

MS has a support article about this layout, it's pretty wicked:
How To Use the United States-International Keyboard Layout in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306560

My favorite section of the article:

Press this key	Then press this key	Resultant character
' (APOSTROPHE)	C	Ç
'(APOSTROPHE)	e, y, u, i, o, a	é, ý, ú, í, ó, á
"(QUOTATION MARK)	e, u, i, o, a	ë, ü, ï, ö, ä
`(ACCENT GRAVE)	e, u, i, o	è, ù, ì, ò
~(TILDE)	o, n	õ, ñ
^(CARET)	e, u, i, o, a	ê, û, î, ô, â

ÿØú®ß trül¥,

n.-

PS: no pics here, sorry
PPS: This post is dedicated to my brother Daniel, who celebrates his birthday today, the date of this post