Updated 03-Aug-2025 Scratch is a visual drag-and-drop programming language developed at MIT. It is the most popular programming language for young learners, with 73 million monthly visits to the scratch.mit.edu website. It is available as mobile apps and the main website, where projects can be shared and remixed. Scratch v. 3.0 is implemented in Javascript ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Salad Nicoise, (pronounced sa-lad nih-swaaz), aka Salad Niçoise, aka La Salada Nissarda, aka the salad from Nice (nees). > Salade niçoise (French pronunciation: [niˈswaz]), la salada nissarda in the Niçard dialect of the Occitan language, is a salad that originated in the French city of Nice. It is traditionally made of tomatoes, hard-boiled ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Tomatoes are a great thing. Though thought of as a vegetable, they are biologically a fruit. They also improve nutritionally upon being cooked. We eat them raw; and cooked as a sauce over pasta, vegetables, or meats; as a tomato juice; and as tomato soup. Sun-dried tomatoes and herbs in olive oil are ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Minimalism isn't necessarily only about less, but rather the minimum needed for effectiveness. With recipes this means the least amount of preparation, cooking, the fewest necessary ingredients, etc. Multi-Use vs. Functionally Improved For a minimal kitchen, some people confuse this with not having any single use utensils and instruments. This is a considerable ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Canola oil is made from the canola plant, a genetically modified rapeseed plant. This was done back in the 1970s through cross-breeding to remove glucosinates and erucic acid, as those can be inedible and/or toxic. Canola is an invented word combining Canada and oil/ola). Canola is seen as a healthy oil for cooking ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Energy bars can be made at home, much less expensively and with known ingredients. It is possible to make them with few ingredients. In the recipe below there are four ingredients: Peanut butter Nonfat milk Rolled oats Protein powder (whey protein isolate) The key is to have a reasonable ratio of fats to ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Gravy is needed sometimes, but we needn't make it mostly salt. Here is an option that can top any dish. It is a combination of a standard roux-based gravy (but without a stock), and a Bearnaise-like emulsion. I find that it is not common in our house to have soup stock. The soups ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 This recipe can accommodate 1kg of fresh pork tenderloin. The key is to roast low and slow until the internal temperature reaches 62 degrees Celsius (using a reliable meat thermometer). At which point, let sit 3 minutes, then carve and serve. The second key part of the recipe is to marinade for two ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Turns out there are several ways to flush the DNS cache on Linux, depending upon what service is being used for DNS caching. In some cases, no services are being used, which means resetting the network should do the trick. sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Google Chrome Browser DNS Caching However, Google will have its ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Recycle Batteries in Chiang Mai > In the underground parking lot of Kad Suan Kaew you can recycle batteries, fluorescent tubes, plastic and all kinds of stuff. If you park on the very bottom floor near the Post Office, all you do is walk up those 5 or so steps near the elevator ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 For all but the simplest screencasting, there are several tools needed: Vector graphics editor - Inkscape Presentation editor - LibreOffice Impress Screencast / video recording and live streaming tool - OBS Studio Video editor - Shotcut
Updated 03-Aug-2025 How to set and modify hostnames hostname commands hostname and hostnamectl will display the static, transient hostnames (hostnamectl also provides other host information). sudo nano /etc/hostname can be used to edit the hostname that will be displayed upon reboot or restart. This can be done more easily from the command with sudo hostnamectl ... Read more
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Updated 03-Aug-2025 LXPanel is the panel for LXDE. Like Longfellow's little girl: > When she was good, > She was very good indeed, > But when she was bad she was horrid. The horrid part comes when something happens and all the settings are lost, which requires about 30 minutes or more of reconfiguring the ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Mid-March 2025 Phone- Samsung Galaxy A-series Samsung Galaxy A06 3,000 baht, best cheapest (poor screen but other specs ok, usually 4/64). Samsung Galaxy A24 6,000 baht, still with headphone jack, 6/128, better than the Samsung Galaxy A16 in my opinion. Samsung Galaxy A26 ??? baht, this will be the next nice thing (unless ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Introduction to Dorothy Sayers - The Lost Tools of Learning In 1947, at the age of 56, Dorothy Sayers -- a writer of advertising and detective novels -- wrote an essay on education entitled The Lost Tools of Learning. Sayers was also a Christian apologist, and translator of Dante, having learned Latin starting ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 To format a USB drive from the Linux command line, we use the following commands: df - disk free umount - unmount filesystems, see also the mount command mkfs - make filesystem lsblk - list block devices df command to display drives df -h Identify the USB drive to format umount command to ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 DRAFT For Debian LXDE there are a few places to configure the keyboard and keyboard shortcuts. LXPanel Enable the Keyboard Layout Handler in Panel Preferences > Panel Applets Once enabled, right-click on the Keyboard Layout Handler and select "Keyboard Layout Handler" Settings Change Layout Option set to grp:lwin_toggle which sets the left windows ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Linode Longview is a nice web GUI to see instance resource utilization for the last 12 hours (or more if paid). Unfortunately it is easy to get an error installing Linode Longview with their script. Below is how to perform a manual installation. For troubleshooting once it is up and running, see this ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025 My five-year-old is obsessed with size comparisons of planets, stars, and larger and smaller astronomical objects (as well as structures on earth). His interests have expanded greatly my own knowledge of astronomy. At first I thought it would be interesting to buy a telescope and play with that, but there isn't much to ... Read more