I’m running into some problems with comment posting on the 2 sites that I’m hosting on this box. I think it might have something to do with the configuration of MySql, which is used as the backend for both sites. If you see a “fatal error: … timeout” if you are trying to post a [...]

On the drive in to work this morning I had been musing a bit about the relative success of the carbonation of the batch of African Skies versus the batch of root beer, and it occured to me that I had once heard that honey had some antiseptic properties. So I finally got a few [...]

I’ve had the chance to taste 2 of the chilled African Skies bottles, and it is good. The yeast is still a bit forward, but giving it a day or two to settle out should make a big difference. It still isn’t quite as carbonated as I would like, but it is definitely good enough, [...]

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Before I got into the shower this morning I figured that I would dispose of the 2 batches of soda that were still remaining in the cases that had failed to carbonate. I checked them 3 times last week, most recently on Friday morning, and they had been the same carbonation level the whole time. [...]

A friend at work gave me a bottle of Tarhun for Christmas! It’s Russian tarragon soda, so completely unlike anything made domestically. It’s also quite tasty, though possibly an acquired taste. The company that produces it also produces quite a few other sodas, several of which I have tried and they are all fairly uniformly [...]

The company I work for has recently been very pushy about insisting that people use MSN Messenger as the only “approved” IM service. I had been proxying through IMSmarter, until they went belly up last week. So this week I am using MSN Messenger v7.5, and finding it to be… adequate. But a coworker was [...]

SageTV has a new hardware product that I’m interested in, a Media Extender box to get content from a PC with the SageTV software loaded up to your living room without having to have a noisy PC next to the TV. The problem is that there is absolutely NO information about exactly what it can [...]

Al Sicherman reports in the Star Tribune a new mint flavored commercial soda, called Snow, available from metro area Kowalski’s. I’ll be hunting down a bottle or 3 today. A google search did turn up at least one person who wasn’t quite so happy with his experience with a bottle of it.. Tags: Soda

Due to some problems on the network, I isolated the issue to my venerable old SMC Barricade router. A port had gone bad a couple of years ago and now traffic through it was starting to drag and packet loss was getting pretty extreme. So I replaced it with a Linksys WRT54G like most of [...]