Author.::.4zy

Now I’m going to tell you about the interesting recipe of the green salad with bacon and mustard sauce. First of all, a few words about the ingredients. We’ll need 4 medium tomatoes, 2 cucumbers, half of the Chinese cabbage lettuce, 4 hard-boiled eggs, mustard and mayonnaise, vegetable oil, vinegar and 150-200 g. of bacon.

We’ll start with the green salad. Cut the vegetables: tomatoes into quarters, then into 3-4 mm. plates, then cucumbers into halves and in the same plates as tomatoes; I cut the salad in the following way: first of all the leaves taken separately into big pieces and then stumps into smaller ones. After that cut the bacon into thin straws (2 mm. thin, 5 mm. wide and 2-3 сm. long). The eggs should be cut as they usually are for Russian salad (don’t forget to keep two yolks for the sauce).

The sauce requires 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, one mustard tablespoon, two tablespoons of vegetable oil (better olive, but it’s not a big difference) and two yolks.

Smear yolks with a fork, add vinegar and stir; and then add mustard, mayonnaise and vegetable oil.

Mix everything thoroughly once again and dress the salad with the sauce.
Huzza! Everything is ready!

Enjoy your meal!

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We decided to make a few t-shirts with our company symbolics, and chose a CafePress service to create it and deliver to us. Nearly a week of graphic works, and logos and images were ready. After we applied these images to the chosen apparel and made an order, we got a reply from processing system, that our card cannot be processed. We thought of misspelling, and try again with same result.

After that we made a call to our bank, and they said about the necessity of using CVV digits in our order. Security reason. We wrote to the CafePress support team about this issue, and got a reply, that we must call them, and service reps will be happy to assist. And that we do not need nothing, just our order number. We answered, that it
will be international call, and we will like to avoid it, if possible, and asked them to solve our problem by e-mail. And provide them (again) with our order number.

In next e-mail they said, that we must call, and to have a credit card ready. And they just want to update the information and make sure it goes through. We made a call. After a long explanation of our problem, service rep answer was: "Sorry, we can't help you with this problem". And the best part of that dialogue: after my next e-mail message to Support Team, I've got an answer: "at this time CafePress.com does not ship orders to Indonesia, Russia or Nigeria".

Only after 2 weeks of design works, 2 credit card info re-entering attempts, two calls to bank, one expensive international call to CafePress service, and 10-12 e-mails, we were provided with information, that CafePress does not ship orders to Russia. And not a word about it on their website! If you're in Russia, you can make a work, choose Russia as a destination country, and system will count a shipping cost, you will provide system with credit card information, and somehow after all of it, you will know, that "CafePress.com does not ship orders to Indonesia, Russia or Nigeria".

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Author.::.Phil

While hanging about in the internet I found one very interesting brief article - “Remote Destruction of Data", which solves the following intriguing task:

Can you set up a Mac so that if it is stolen, you can easily erase the contents of its hard drive from a remote location if the stolen Mac is connected to the internet?

The answer is surely positive. The following algorithm is underlying in the wee script, the reference above sends to:

The script, executed on the Mac, checks your website for the purpose of finding a kind of file “youve_been_stolen". If such a file exists, the script completes the rm -rf command and, for example, can message that the notebook has been stolen.

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Author.::.Mazoo

Yeah Man, alive man, see dem waves pitching. They crumbling and the wind blowing? Ah, yes I, I want to become part of that action. Yeah man. I wanna express my feelings. See that Irie feeling, going through my veins to my Brain, man its exploding. I feeling the feeling man. I feeling Irie. That's what I want to feel. I want to become one with the wind that howls. Yeah man. Life speak to me, man. Yeah man see me here, I wan to fly through that sky, far up in the sky. I wanna flip, I wanna somersault. I just want to go, I want to go where no man goes.

Now, when Black Sea Cup competitions are over, everyone is speaking about Barbados windsurf-star Brian Talma. Phil and I used the opportunity to get acquainted with him. It should be mentioned, that you feel desire to make friends with him not because he’s a star, but because Brian’s an incredibly amiable person with a cheerful white teeth-smile.

Continue reading "Brian Talma, the Irie man"

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Author.::.Trickster

Burlington town has been auctioned in Great Britain. The town is not ordinary, but underground. I can’t bring myself to call this territory just a shelter, as the square of the object is 96 hectares, and the roads alone cover approximately 100 km. The town disposes a kind of “infrastructure”, a railway station and even a public house called “The rose and the queen”. The complex was built in the 50-s of the last century in order to hide the prime-minister of Great Britain and nearly 4000 more officials in case the Soviet Union brought the nuclear attack into life. This underground town costs around 9 megabucks.

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