Just after Christmas, I bought myself a new 11in MacBook Air (MB Air) to replace the 12in PowerBook G4 (PB) that I’ve kept running entirely too long. I selected the 4GB Ram, 128 GB SSD configuration as the system is…
2011 Racing Season
Is time to seriously start to plan for the 2011 Race season. I have already completed the indoor time trial season, with rather poor results. Here is what I have planned for the season. I was able to find races…
Indian inspired Golomki (Polish Stuffed Cabbage)
One of the other Polish dishes I had regularly growing up was Golomki, which is cabbage leaves stuffed with a mixture of rice and ground beef covered in tomato sauce and baked. Since I need to eat low-cholesterol, I came…
Fighting foreign language spam
The single largest class of spam that seems to get into my inbox is foreign language spam. The spam seems to get through the multiple anti-spam layers I use: sendmail SpamCop SpamHaus MailScanner -> Spam Assassin / ClamAV Procmail Mac…
Kolacky
Being of Polish decent and having hereditary high cholesterol, there are few recipes that I can eat. This being the holiday season, I had to publish my paternal grandmother’s favorite cookie recipe: Kolacky. This is not what you seem to…
GPG key length and signing RPM packages
For the last two years when I have created my new GPG key I have forgotten to limit the key length to 1024 bits. This is needed because when signing RPM packages you can sign the packages with 2048 bit…