| On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.
Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.
We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!
As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work. | comments: 25 comments or Leave a comment   |
| Or baked milk xD It's the simplest and more delicious dessert I've tried in my life *---* Really, i love it and I would prefer it over a decadent chocolate pie with ice cream or anything like that! I don't have pictures 'cause it doesn't look cute... in fact it looks awful xD It would look life flan or creembrule if you do it on individual pots, but I did it in a cake pan xD
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| Croissants made with brioche dough, filled with homemade lemon curd. So good, and an easy Sunday breakfast, as the dough needs prepped the night before. | | comments: 13 comments or Leave a comment |
| This is a long shot but I am hoping to talk to a group of year 6's (namely 35 x 11 year olds) about South African food. As part of this I'd like them to get involved in cooking some yummy treats! I've found a few recipes that involve making coconut ice (easy is vital) and biscuits / cookies with apricot jam and coconut.
Any ideas would be fantastic!
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Okay, so I decided to make a pan of apple crisp, since I wanted to do something with this package of pre-sliced granny smith apples we bought this weekend. It was extremely easy, since I used a packaged topping mix.
I peeled and cored the apple slices that still had a core (Motts did a pretty good job for me) and mixed the topping with 5 tbsp of butter like the package told me, but I added two handfuls of chopped walnuts and a bit of allspice and nutmeg to the apples (just to make it taste less... packaged). Baked at 375 for 25-30 minutes and TA-DA!
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I wish I had vanilla ice cream. ;_; | | comments: 15 comments or Leave a comment |
| Around holidays at work, people always bring in the most amazing baked treats for each other. But for the last 4 years, there's one goofy kid who's always left out. He can't have anything with dairy or soy in it, and no one yet has come across a recipe that wouldn't kill our little buddy. So I call upon you, genius goody-makers of this cummunity, help me satisfy my coworker's allergy-ridden sweet tooth without causing his untimely death!
Much love and appreciation :] | | comments: 36 comments or Leave a comment |
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And you told me you wanted, to eat up my sadness
Well jump on, enjoy, you can gorge away
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| | I just received a whole bunch of not-so-fresh oranges and I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for what I could bake with them. They're still good, just getting to the end of their freshness and I know I can't eat them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
| Hey! Thanks for for all the input I got on making a shortbread crust on a pecan pie. And here's my results... oops...
Well, that didn't last long. I used a slightly non-standard recipe (which was gutsy since I've NEVER baked one before, of any kind. I'll give my notes from doing this one, too, for the next time I make it or you might make it, so you have a little easier time than I did.
( Recipe follows... )
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| I am determined to keep on letting the kites fly away. No matter how many times I have to do it, I will keep on giving it to You.
Anyway, am determined to start saving money for
1) my bassssssssssssss (and bass lessons)
2) my cybershot phone 8.1mp ftw!
Wheee. So exciting to be able to spend such a huge amount of money on myself. Hahaha. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| hello all! first post here ^_^ normally i don't bake at home, only at school, but we had 18 egg yolks from making angel food cake and white cake that i needed to make something with egg yolks
i really wanted to make else but i am a poor college student so luckily i found a recipe that had what i had at home
( cookies ahoy )
also i've never tagged a post before so i have no idea what to do XD..thanks
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| I've always wanted to make this, and my fiance has mentioned that he hasn't had one in a long time, so for Halloween I decided to make it. I used a recipe from this one book I bought, called The Essential Baking Cookbook. Enjoy.
( Recipe and more pics ) | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| My friend was in a horrible car accident months ago. She's still in the hospital and is very slowly trying to recover. It's not even guaranteed that she will survive this. Many fundraisers are being held to raise money for her hospital bills. I'm trying to stay involved with them raising as much as I can. The reason I'm posting this here is because in a couple weeks there will be a very large bake sale where all the proceeds will go towards her. I've never been involved in bake sales before so I was wondering what you guys think would be good sellers there. I'd like to keep the recipes as basic as possible but still want them to stand out. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I'm not sure if it matters, but I'm fairly certain that over half of the buyers will be of the "elderly" crowd.
Thank you guys! | | comments: 37 comments or Leave a comment |
| Okay so this is a really weird question, but I have a whole bottle of liquid glucose sitting on my desk, rotting away because it was an impulse buy :P Any suggestions from all you pro-bakers as to what to do with it?
Thanks much in advance! | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
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I've been trying to bake as much as possible recently, despite not having any time. I've also been trying out new recipes rather than the usual ones I know taste nice. In the last week I've made vegan biscotti and rosemary and orange biscuits. These are two things I wouldn't normally make unless I felt like doing something slightly different. Biscotti is mostly eggs in my mind and rosemary belongs with potatoes. Despite this, they both turned out rather nice. The biscotti isn't anything like biscotti made with eggs but that's too be expected and the rosemary and orange biscuits a somewhat unexpected combination (at least for me!) They're still nice though!
( vegan biscotti and buttery rosemary biscuits! ) | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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