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TextAmerica moblog. It shows the last 12 pictures that I've uploaded there. You get a little script that you can paste into your own blog.
THIS is a fun site. It's kind of addictive. Check it out.
I found an interesting blog.
The Science Blog
I got the all grain brewing system that I ordered today. All except the burner. It'll be here the end of next week. Anyway it's huge. Two big rubbermaid coolers and a 30 Quart brewpot.
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I ordered a bunch of ingredients AND a 14 gallon conical fermenter so I should do my first all-grain batch next weekend.
All throughout the deployment I was excited about getting a multimedia PC when I got home. Well I'm home and I don't need one now. I already have one.
Let me explain. It seems that the good folks at TiVo added some of the features that I wanted in a PC to their networking software. Now I can stream or download video recorded on my TiVo to my computer and watch it or even burn it to a DVD to watch later.
No need to buy a new PC.
Cool Stuff TiVo!
The Colonial Ale Smiths & Keggers, that is. I went to my first meeting on Thursday at the St. George Brewing Company here in town. Met a lot of local homebrewers and tasted a lot of good beer. I even won a can of seedless raspberry puree. Normally they meet at the Williamsburg Brewing Company. CASK is going to have a booth at Club night at the National Homebrewers Conference in June. I'll probably be giving them a hand there.
I ordered my All-Grain brewing system. But unfortunately it's on backorder. Grrrrrr. Jenny's Red Ale will have to wait. I also have the urge to make a Raspberry Sour Brown Ale. I can't wait for it to get here.
Finally, after 5 months in the Persian Gulf and a month of transit time, I'm home.
I've registered for the
NHC in Baltimore this June. I'm REALLY looking forward to it because it'll give me a chance to see how competitions are. And will help me as I start entering competitions.
I've also decided to get
this all-grain brewing system when I get back. I can't wait to get home!!
Oh Yeah,
Jen has a new blog!
Just in time for St Patrick's Day!
IRISH SCIENTISTS COOK UP LIGHT STOUT
Scientists at University College Cork in Ireland have brewed an Atkins-friendly stout that has 60% fewer carbohydrates and a quarter fewer calories than regular stout. The inventors claim the lighter pint, to be presented at a food industry showcase next month, has the same consistency, taste and texture as its full-bodied equivalent. Students in the food science and technology department in UCC have been working on the beer for the past six months. It is brewed from the same malt, water, yeast and hops, but modifications to the brewing process cut the carbs. Normal stout has about 2 grams of carbohydrate and contains 32 calories per 100ml (3.3 ounces) while the new version has 0.6 grams of carbs and 24 calories per 100ml.
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German court OKs sugar in beer despite 1516 purity lawA German brewer has won his battle against Reinheitsgebot, the country's 1516 beer purity law that limits beer ingredients to malted grain, hops, yeast and water.
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Still out to sea. Nothing going on really. Just work. I re-did the ship's
website. Obviously, I can't wait to get home again. I have plans to buy some new
brewing equipment and a
Media Center PC.
Happy New Year everyone!
Jen, please send me your e-mail current address.
I see that
Beer, Beer, and More Beer is selling oak barrels now. Unfortunately they are all new barrels. I'm looking for used Bourbon or wine barrels to age barleywine or lambic beer in. And yes, I'm thinking WAY ahead here.
If you saw my last post you'll know that I'm having some problems with Visual Studio. Well I tried all of the suggestions that the good folks who read this blog gave me and still the same problem. I can't open any ASP.NET projects or create any new ASP.NET projects. Windows Forms work fine. The error message says something to the effect of "Unable to open project because the web server isn't running, start the web server."
I uninstalled VS 2005 Beta already. I guess my next step is to re-install IIS and see what happens. I really don't want to have to re-install the whole OS because of the whole "registration process" being out to sea with no visits to homeport in the near future makes the process difficult. I can't hook my personal comuter up to the ships LAN and register over the net and we dont have the phone option either. Can you do that by e-mail?
I was about to ask if anyone had a suggestion or two to help deal with the abundance of comment spam we all seem to be experiencing lately. I see
Darrell is already doing the same.
The United States Postal Service is offering free packing materials to
spouses and families of military members who are deployed overseas. To
take advantage of this service call: 1-800-610-8734 and press 1 (for
English & then 3 for an operator) and they will send you free boxes, packing
materials, tape and mailing labels. These products are to be used to mail
care packages to service members.
The November issue of PC magazine has an interesting article on Windows XP Media Center 2005 and the machines that use it's features. I'm excited about this development because I already love my TiVo and the recorder features in XPMC are even better. You can record more than one TV show at a time (depending upon how many tuner cards are in your system), You can stream video to other devices, like TV's, laptops, handheld devices, even X-Box. But you have to buy a MCX (Media Center Extender, around $300) in some cases like your TV or X-Box, which basically hooks your device up to your LAN either via ethernet or WiFi.
I just received a copy of XP Media Center from Microsoft in my Action Pack update for October. I cant wait to get home to try it out. But the needs of the Navy come first of course.
I'm back home, but not for long.
I tried lambic beer for the first time yesterday. It was Lindeman's Framboise from Vlezenbeek, Belgium. It is REALLY GOOD, tart, carbonated like champagne, and full of raspberries, with barely any hops. It has a really persistent head and tastes more like a fruit punch that a beer. But it was very good. It comes in a wine bottle with a cork. I'm lucky my local grocery stocks it. I also tried their Kriek which is a sour cherry version. Now I want to try to make this myself. But it takes a LONG time to age. YUM!
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