Brendan At Home Posts

December 25, 2011 / / Stuff

Here’s wishing all my friends and family and very merry Christmas! I hope you have a wonderful day and get to spend it with those you care about most. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbW64J_RJZg

December 20, 2011 / / Food

One of my favourites and a great “hot” dessert for when it’s cold outside. Ingredients 6 small to med eggs or 4 large 500 ml of milk 60 ml (4T) caster sugar 5 ml (1t) ground cinnamon 80 g butter 125 ml apricot jam 16 10 slices of white bread (I found about 10 to be right, but just put in as many as your mixture/bowl allows) Preparation Preheat oven to 180 °C Whisk eggs, sugar, milk and ground cinnamon together Spread bread slices generously with butter and jam Cut bread into halves Place…

October 7, 2011 / / Stuff

Well I’m am really looking forward to a great weekend of rugby! Here is a round up from Planet Rugby of the games happening this weekend: The big one 😉 South Africa vs Australia Ire v Wales NZ v Arg Eng v Fr

October 1, 2011 / / Conservation

Hi Folks, Just posted the next edition of “Doing Your Bit”. It’s about the Arctic and the affects of climate change. Please take the time to read, link below. Cross-posted from my work blog: http://brendanpiater.com/wp-trackback.php?p=1869 Thanks and all the best B

September 27, 2011 / / Stuff

As a follow-up to my post last week where I said beware of what Facebook does now that Google+ is here, I’d like to say I called it! Read this: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/09/24/facebookIsScaringMe.html And this: http://nikcub.appspot.com/logging-out-of-facebook-is-not-enough It will take 10 minutes and will make you more informed about how Facebook is ABUSING your personal information and website browsing habits. What you surprised they been tracking you all along… And once you done that, GET OFF FACEBOOK and join Google+ if you want social media. At least they look after your privacy. Yes they collect data too, but…

September 21, 2011 / / Technology

And Facebook goes the way of Yahoo (Dodo) The Google+ project has been in field trial for just under 90 days, and in that time we’ve made 91 different improvements (many of which are posted here). Google+ is still in its infancy, of course, but we’re more excited than ever to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software. Today we’re releasing nine more features that get us that much closer. Read the full blog post Google+ opened it’s doors to all yesterday and considering they already have 25 million…

September 21, 2011 / / Stuff

Hello Friends, A bit of help please. I’ve uploaded 90 odd pics that I need to whittle down to 12 for a Cornish Calendar that I want to release for 2012. Here is the important bit, you can only vote once, so you picking your favourite! Not ideal, but did not want to spend to long on this and this service is the best I could come up with in a short space of time. You don’t have to register or anything and I’d like to get as many eyes on this as…

September 17, 2011 / / Stuff

Fantastic performance by SA against Fiji. 49-3 to SA! Roussow, F Steyn, Burger where stars for me. Thought they where a little slow to get to some of the breakdowns but did not cost us in this game. Most encouraging was the backline which was given good clean ball which they hung onto. And boy did that create some great tries! Frans Steyn at inside centre works well too. He really had a cracker.

September 13, 2011 / / Technology

Man… I been fighting with an install of drupal commerce installation for days now… it’s in theory perfect for my requirement but is seriously in need of some usability work. When will folks realise that for a project to be usable… people need to be able to actually use it! I reckon 80% of those trying this are looking elsewhere after… I wish I was not so committed now, I’d change out of principle.