soak over night – one pack ftw.

next morning, get some salt, 1 onion, teaspoon of curry powder and boil until soft.

in a separate fry pan get some garlic 2 buds about half an inch of ginger, one tomato, and some pepper (cayenne optional). olive oil. crush / grate ginger and garlic. heat olive oil, couple of spoons. saute ginger and garlic about 5 mins, add tomato, saute till becomes a sauce. poor into lentils

***

soup

lentils. olive oil, onions, saute onions and lentils, low heat for 5- 10 mins.

add water 125-150 mls. (depending on consistency wanted)
cook that till done.

then get a big bunch of parsley. chop it up fine. once boiled add parsley. add a big whack of grated ginger (4-9 tbs).

turn heat off and add ginger.

nom nom with bread or rice.

nb: both of these are untested!

xmodmap -e “remove lock = Caps_Lock”
xmodmap -e “keycode 66 = underscore”

thanks to: http://www.columbia.edu/~djv/docs/keyremap.html!

The Prime Minister, keen to extend his short reign of power, appeared before reporters at the official residence in Tamieke-sanno dressed in an elegantly cut dark suit with a crisp white shirt and a confidently understated tie. He calmly answered a number of questions on various topics. When asked about what his government intended to do about Japan’s current economic malaise, he stated, “We will continue to develop measures to remedy that issue.” On the ongoing issue of Japanese – American relations, he was quoted as saying, “America remains Japan’s most important ally and we look forward to continuing and developing that relationship.”

No news has as yet been forthcoming regarding a possible cabinet reshuffle, however there has been some speculation that some senior members of the previous cabinet will have their portfolio’s reshuffled to make way for new blood from the back benches.

cat /etc/redhat-release

For me it was:

CentOS release 5.5 (Final)

In the land of the wild and roving!

There was a Child Once

There was a child once.
He came to play in my garden;
He was quite pale and silent.
Only when he smiled I knew everything about him,
I knew what he had in his pockets,
And I knew the feel of his hands in my hands
And the most intimate tones of his voice.
I led him down each secret path,
Showing him the hiding-place of all my treasures.
I let him play with them, every one,
I put my singing thoughts in a little silver cage
And gave them to him to keep…
It was very dark in the garden
But never dark enough for us. On tiptoe we walked
among the deepest shades;
We bathed in the shadow pools beneath the trees,
Pretending we were under the sea.
Once–near the boundary of the garden–
We heard steps passing along the World-road;
O how frightened we were!
I whispered: “Have you ever walked along that road?”
He nodded, and we shook the tears from our eyes….

There was a child once.
He came–quite alone–to play in my garden;
He was pale and silent.
When we met we kissed each other,
But when he went away, we did not even wave

Katherine Mansfield ]]> http://www.blizzardboy.net/japan/there-was-a-bell.html/feed 1 http://www.blizzardboy.net/japan/the-great-wall-of-saitama.html http://www.blizzardboy.net/japan/the-great-wall-of-saitama.html#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:51:03 +0000 symeg http://www.blizzardboy.net/?p=1008

This of course is quite normal for Japan and is part of the daily scene outside most of Tokyo’s bustling stations.

Where it gets really weird is with the whale sashimi, because of course, most of the time that isn’t whale, but horse. Bring it on Mr. Ed!

Chooch at the shiny post

I took this photo a couple of weeks ago when we were out for an evening stroll. It was taken by the express way close to Tokyo bay and the docks at Hinode where the ferries for the Tokyo islands leave from. I quite like the innocence of Chooch’s expression, as well as the shiny silverness of the lamppost.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/post-download/

Dynamic
Static

Dynamic means to dynamically link to libraries, and will require you to meet the dependencies of skype, while static is a larger package which meets those requirements. I went with static.

First, make a directory to download the code to (you can use /tmp if you want):

mkdir /usr/share/skype

wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-static
(alternatively: wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-dynamic )
#upack the download
tar jxvf skype_static-2.1.0.81.tar.bz2
cd skype_static-2.1.0.81/

less README

skype

And your skype should be up and running!