On The Other Hand

Tonight I rebooted to change the RAID controller on my new system from RAID to JBOD mode.

I have recently seen a proliferation of posts online “supporting” Ben Roberts-Smith, an ex-SAS soldier who is currently awaiting trial for war crimes.

I was incredibly disappointed to read Jason Om’s article about EVs, published on the ABC website.

Just a reminder that LLMs (AI) are not to be trusted.

Ingredients Seafood: 2 Whole lobsters or lobster tails 12 Prawns, peeled and deveined 500 g Crab meat Marinade: 65 ml olive oil 3 Garlic cloves 3 Fresh basil leaves Small bunch of fresh parsley, chopped – Half for marinade, half for garnish Salt Stuffing:…

Ingredients 2 large eggplants or small globe eggplants 100 g tahini paste 1 lemon, rind and juice 1 garlic clove, minced 20 ml plain Greek yogurt, optional salt and pepper 1 teaspoon sumac 1 teaspoon Aleppo pepper or red pepper flakes, optional Extra virg…

Ingredients 250 g Risoni (orzo) 250 g Feta cheese 1 Capsicum 4 Cloves garlic 1 Cucumber 10 Kalamata olives 50 g pine nuts 2 green onions 50 ml olive oil Rosemary Thyme Parsley Juice of 1 lemon Salt Pepper Method Boil 750 ml of water and then drop the riso…

Ingredients 7g (1 sachet) instant yeast 300 ml milk, warmed 45g brown sugar 450g plain flour 10 ml mixed spice 170g currents or raisins 50g mixed peel or other dried fruit Method Use a fork to whisk together the yeast, 60ml of the milk and 10 ml of the su…

Ingredients 1.5 kg pork belly, skin removed 50 g brown sugar 90 g honey 90 g maple syrup 70 g salt 2 g fresh ground pepper Method Curing: Rinse the pork belly and pat dry In a mixing bowl, mix your sugar, honey, and maple syrup.

Ingredients 250 g self-raising flour 85 g caster sugar 4 eggs 5 ml salt 2.5 ml bi-carb soda 7.5 ml baking powder 500 g Greek yoghurt 100 ml water 150 g butter, melted Rind of 1 lemon 125 g blueberries Method Preparing the batter: Combine the flour, baking…

I recently purchased a house which came with two SMA inverters.

Ingredients Paneer: 2 L milk juice of 2 lemons or ~50 ml white vinegar Oil for frying Palak: 50 g butter 50 ml olive oil 3 large red onions, finely diced 1 head garlic, minced 5 cm ginger, grated 4 small tomatoes, cut into cubes 1 stick cinnamon 2 tsp tur…

Overview and Research Please refer to 2022 Guide for details on parties which I have previously covered and 2025 part 1 for my discussion of the Vote Compass positions.

So, the 2025 federal election has finally been called.

Looking up who was available to vote for this election, I came across what looked like a new party: Trumpet of Patriots.

Wikipedia is, of course, well known as a place to contribute to the global knowledge base.

For anyone who might not have noticed, there’s a coup in progress in the USA right now.

I recently decided it was time to purchase a new car and, having tasted the hybrid and electric lifestyles previously, decided that it was purely electric only this time.

The Internet is currently overwhelmingly centralised around ad companies collecting personally identifiable information (PII) in order to sell ads.

Ingredients 100 g butter 400 g red rice 500 ml chicken stock 1 large red onion, diced 20 ml garam masala 5 star anise 10 cardamom pods, crushed 400 g mixed dried fruit (mango, currents, dates, blueberries) Garnish: 100 g flaked almonds 20 ml oil 20 ml cin…

Ingredients Cake: 0.5 tsp baking powder 0.5 tsp baking soda 2 g grated nutmeg 425 g flour 5 g salt 10 g powdered ginger 400 g sugar 225 g butter, soft 200 ml coconut milk 3 whole eggs 3 egg yolks 15 ml vanilla extract 15 g + 25 g candied ginger, finely ch…

Bundaberg has an annual rock festival, which I learned earlier this week and attended for the first time on Saturday.

If you use LastPass your present from them this year is that your passwords are compromised and you should change them.

I don’t post quite as regularly here as I would like to, I’m currently spending more time thinking about updates to Dive Coaching Australia.

Action cameras (and many others) will encode MP4 video using H.264 or using constant rate H.265.

Ingredients 1 liter milk 4 eggs 40 ml butter 40 ml currants or sultanas 60 ml sugar 4 slices bread You will need a baking dish that is larger than the dish you are preparing the pudding in.

I recently moved back to Australia and there have been a few surprises in getting into dive instructing.

In this chapter of The Rise and Fall of the US Empire: Abortion.

If you look up MTP transfer on MacOS, you’ll likely come across OpenMTP or MTP For Mac.

Overview and Research As I’ve recently returned to Australia, I had to do quite a bit of research on the parties as well as the candidates to work out what’s going on and figure out how to vote.

This is a list of all the dive related media I keep an eye on for interesting lessons.

You know the drill, diver comes in without a card and it needs to be looked up.

When I left the USA, I decided to keep my US phone number as so many things are tied to it.

Preventing errors is a critical part of leadership and management.

While driving today, I was introduced to to The Ground Up Show episode 94 Success Doesn’t Equal Happiness by my friend Lynette.

Various thoughts from Paul.

Ingredients For the chicken and stock: 1.5 kg whole chicken 1 carrot 1 celery stalk 1 small onion, halved 10 ml salt For the pie crust: 200 g all-purpose flour 2.5 ml salt 175 g unsalted butter, diced into 1 cm cubes and chilled 50 g of the butter can be…

Earlier in the year I decided to move back to Australia as the pandemic handling in the USA was rather insane (I wanted to move earlier, family reasons kept me from doing so).

Earlier in the year I set a goal of either getting a job in the US government working towards fixing some of the mess left over from the previous administration or leaving the country.

Two tech issues today, which caused a bit of debugging fun: Firstly, I powered up an old iPhone SE to see if I could replicate a problem that a friend had been seeing.

Introduction I started trying to work with Storm Crawler for a project and found the documentation to be a little spartan.

I had originally planned to write up an introduction to StormCrawler, but found myself wanting to draw state diagrams.

There have been continuous attempts at a soft coup in the USA since the 2020 November election.

A friend of mine who is a doctor posted that they’d had a patient who had come in both denying the existence of COVID-19 and declaring that masks kill you faster.

Ingredients Shortcrust pastry 4 egg yolks 1 egg white 500 ml cream 250 ml milk 50 g castor sugar Freshly grated nutmeg Method Line a 24 cm x 4 cm deep flan tin with pastry and bake blind at 200 ºC for 20 minutes.

Overview and Research This guide is ordered from most general to most specific.

US Voters: This year, in King County WA, I have 36 choices to make an educated choice on.

In many states you can vote early in person.

The US Military has some quite excellent, and approachable, guides to improving your safety online.

Recently, an old friend of mine asked the following How much of this is hyperbole?