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Archives: November, 2008

Liferea + Flash in Fedora redux

26th November 2008

I’ve been without Flash support in Liferea for my x86_64 Fedora for quite a while. Well, Adobe has a 64-bit alpha version of their sucktastic Flash Player available now, and it seems to work perfectly with both Firefox and Liferea – so now I can watch BB’s lame unicorn videos right in my favorite feed [...]

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Cran-ban-nut muffins

21st November 2008

Something to do with leftover cranberry sauce…
Ingredients:

3 very ripe bananas
3 eggs
3 tablespoons soft or melted butter
about 3 cups of fluffy nut flour (grate in a rotary cheese grater or buy at Trader Joe’s)
flavoring like vanilla, nutmeg, etc.
about 1 tablespoon honey
about 1/4 teaspoon salt
about 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
about 3/4 cup cranberry sauce, hopefully homemade

Preheat the oven [...]

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2008 European adventure: Breidel to Aachen

12th November 2008

Summary: On the final leg of our trip, Mandi, her mom Bette, Bette’s mom Nancy, Nancy’s friend Cassie, and I made our way from Hahn airport to Breidel on the Mosel River to Beilstein, Burg Eltz, and a rendezvous with our friends in Aachen. Mandi and I headed back home via Frankfurt airport while the [...]

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2008 European Adventure: Finland

10th November 2008

20 October
In retrospect, we probably should have just paid more to fly directly from Frankfurt to Helsinki, but flying out of Hahn did get us to Trier, Beilstein, and Burg Eltz so I guess that compensated for the hassle.
Thanks to the navigation thing in the rental minivan we made it to Hahn airport for our [...]

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2008 European adventure: Nuremberg and Trier

7th November 2008

Summary: Mandi and I drove from Nuremberg to Trier, making a stop at the Frankfurt airport to pick up Mandi’s mom Bette, her grandma Nancy, and Nancy’s friend Cassie. We enjoyed delicious little sausages in Nuremberg and saw a bunch of Roman ruins in Trier before heading to Hahn airport for our flight to Finland.
18 [...]

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