Zorac's LiveJournal

February the 14th is so much nicer when someone special to spend the day with.

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I really must write-up New Year's soon. Am bad boyfriend...

I like cookies. Especially freshly baked ones that are still warm and gooey. Alas, pre-made cookie dough is ruinously expensive in this country. So, after a few tubs of that, I felt ready to make my own and did some Googling for recipies. Alas, somewhere along the line I got it all horribly confused and found myself with something more akin to crumble than to dough. Doh! Fortunately, raiding the cupboard did turn up something to save the day.

Disaster Recovery Cookies

125g butter
125g soft brown sugar
250g self-raising flour
3 large dessert spoons gooey honey

Cream the butter and sugar together, then add the flour and mix in. Panic. Discover honey and start mixing in. Give up on the spoon and get your hands in there and knead it until it looks dough-like. Roll into balls about 3-4cm in diameter (that's an inch and a half).

The dough keeps in the fridge for a few days (at least, it hasn't killed me yet). Take out as much as you need, and bake them for 10-11 minutes in an oven pre-heated to 180°C. Leave to cool for another 10 minutes or so, then eat!

P.S. Why isn't it Friday yet?

Have beaten RS server into submission and made it run my new code.

Muahahahaha!

Well, it seems that somebody has declared today to be WiP amnesty day, so I though it might be fun to join in, so here's my initial complete draft of my epic unlikely-to-ever-be-finished fic. This was done pre-OotP, so there are certainly some things that need to change.

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Phew! That's almost the first time I've shown this material to anyone (jiggery_pokery saw a few scenes a couple of years back). I have another 5 episodes or so's worth of material written, albeit spread over the entire rest of the timeline (yes, I've written the final scene). Whether it will progress any further - who knows?

Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring to your attention Amkells.co.uk. alnitak pointed this site out to me - the similarities in the site design to Amazon.co.uk are quite breathtaking. For the most blatant example, have a look at their safe shopping guarantee and compare it to that on Amazon - they're word-for-word identical, as is much of the "Where's My Stuff?" etc. section at the bottom of each page. Google searching turns up virtually nothing for amkells other than link shops.

I'm not quite sure what's going on there, but it certainly smells like fish to me.

Updates: The email I fired off to Amazon has had nothing but a form reply so far. Googling for amkells now turns up my LJ on the first page :)

More updates: The information in this comment does lean towards their legitimacy, but on the other hand, the site appears to be down at the moment...

So, on Friday night I decided to reinstall Windows on zorac, on the grounds of it having developed a tendency to lock up of late. ( Collapse ) Having done all that, you can imagine my delight to discover that XP is still subject to random lock-ups. *stabs*

Last night, the gale-force winds managed to give me a nice little power-outage. Initially, all seemed well, until later in the evening visar (and thus my Internet connection) died. A post-mortem this morning revealed a dead power-supply as the culprit, and given that it was the one thing not on a surge protector... This afternoon I popped into PC World to pick up a new case and another surge protector ( Collapse ) I had something that worked, in a Frankenstein's monster kind of way.

All that really got in the way of me getting anything much else done (other than shopping trips), so my evil plans to take over the_restricted appear to have been thwarted yet again. Wah.

So, finally here's my opportunity to bore you all with details of what I've been doing for the last month or so. Well, selected highlights thereof. This being part the first, so hopefully windows can do less damage than when it crashed and lost the whole lot...

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BBC: Microsoft creator to be knighted

I heard rumors about this yesterday, but now it's been confirmed. Apparently Gordon Brown has realised that I didn't dislike him enough for him to take over from Tony later in the week. This little gem is most certainly a good start. Honestly, what has Bill Gates done for 'enterprise in the UK' - other than screwing vast amounts of money out of them for sub-standard software, of course. I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the government getting better licensing terms on their copies of Window, Office and the like...

Gacked from Slashdot:

Now for sale on Amazon: Presidential canditates.

I just wanted to say that my girlfriend is the most wonderful, smart, sexy, amazing, beautiful woman in the world. I know you're all jealous. *t00by dance of happiness*