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So I’ve caught nearly my legal limit of perch fish…  awesome…   however perch fish is practically impossible to eat without constantly picking out the tiny bones, so how about a recipe that can make the bones edible without being a threat to one’s esophagus.    Here’s one possible use for perch…   pickled fish!   In theory,  the acidic vinegar will soften the bones and any scales you’ve missed.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Pickled-Fish-Make-It-Yourself&id=366314

A northern has a lot of y-bones and if they are removed, quite a lot of flesh is lost in the process. By pickling the smaller ones the bones are nothing to worry about. The vinegar softens all those tiny y-bones. To pickle northern first of all you have to catch the fish. I tell everyone that asks me, that is the first step. There is no need to scale them for pickling because the skin becomes rubbery. I fillet them, remove the back bone and cut them into 1-2-inch pieces.

Next I place the pieces into a crock or large glass jar. I generously salt each single layer with pickling salt, making sure each piece is salted. Do not pack them tightly. When the jar is full pour vinegar to cover the fish. Place in the refrigerator for 1-week. Stir the fish every day. After 1-week empty the jar, discard the vinegar solution and rinse the fish in clean water and drain.

Measure 5-cups sugar and 5-cups vinegar into kettle and bring to a boil. Boil 5-minutes and let cool to room temperature. Next I slice onions and alternate them with the fish pieces in my jars. I add 1-2-tablespoons mixed pickling spice to each quart jar. Then I measure 2-cups of the vinegar solution and 1-cup of dry white wine together, making sure they are room temperature and pour that mixture over the fish and spices in the jars. Be sure to completely cover the fish.

Put the lids on the jars and refrigerate for 6-weeks to 2-months before eating. The longer they sit in the jars the better they are. Delicious.

Interesting product - Oxygen inhaler , good for 14 one second blasts of 90% oxygen.

http://www.oxy2go.com/index.php

Seems to have extensive knowledge of how manufacturers work in China. 

Apricorn Aegis Padlock :    http://www.apricorn.com/product_detail.php?type=family&id=58

Lenovo Thinkpad Secure hard drive  :   http://www.everythingusb.com/lenovo-thinkpad-usb-portable-secure-hard-drive-16313.html

Vantec NexStar VAULT Keypad Encryption 2.5 Inch SATA USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive Enclosure: NST-V290S2 

Data Locker Secured Hard drive  http://www.takeanywhere.com

http://www.psychometrics.com/

Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Unable to open the Outlook Window. The set folders could not be opened.

Error shows up when attempting to use “offline” mode .    It should just allow access to the local pst file.

Source:  Rafael Brusilow - Metro News - Metronews.ca/work  Sept 30, 2009Solo Electric Ltd, Toronto - Run by Sandy Ragno(no idea how good this company actually is - take this advice at your own risk)

(Kobe Beef, Mishima Beef)J-town at Steeles Ave in Toronto now has Wagyu Beef available - the individual sublet company selling it is called Famu , http://www.famu.ca .   Also seen was 8 week dry aged beef.   Oh man, all the beef looked so nicely marbled - I’ve so rarely seen such beautiful cuts of beef in Toronto.   Price as of Dec 12, 2009 for wagyu beef was $50 for 800g .    The website is all in japanese, but I’m pretty sure the people working there can speak english.   J-Town is located at 3160 Steeles Ave. E., Unit 6-11, Markham, Ontario. 

This concert was awesome.    Listening to John William’s music in it’s true full spectrum analog form is waaay better than any 44.1 kHz sampled CD.   Definitely worth the ticket price, around $60 CDN for 301 level seats directly facing the stage - which in my opinion are the best seats to view it, as you have a full clear view of everything.

One thing that another person commented on another site was the number of kids in attendance, which to this person, detracted from the experience.   Here in the Toronto concert, yes, lots of kids were in attendance, but all in all, they were well behaved.   But step back for a minute…  Star Wars is a kids movie series, of course there’s going to be kids at this concert!   I mean, jeez, look at all the merchandizing and marketing from Kenner toys when Star Wars first came out… it was kids playing with Star Wars toys.   I’m not sure how the musicians are going to handle their punishing schedule, it’s practically every other day in a different city!   How the hell are they going to assemble and disassemble all the equipment that quickly.   My only guess is that they have two identical sets that leap frog each other and different sets of musicians.

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On one of our workstations, we started getting a word too long error from the labcshrc start up script, and hence unable to start the coot software.    The problem was that the setenv PATH was too long for tcsh to handle.   It looks like the sbgrid people tried to temporarily fix it by creating a link at /programs/l that linked to /programs/i386-linux , and in the shell script at /programs/i386-linux/linuxlabcshrc - all references to i386-linux was changed to l .   However,  there were some places in the script at /programs/labcshrc that set the path to i386-linux instead of just l , and it was using up valuable variable space.   Search and replace all references in labcshrc of /programs/i386-linux to /programs/l , and it should fix the “word too long” problem.

Seems to be much better than endnote, and it’s free!    Allows cross platform mac/pc access to your citations.

http://www.zotero.org/

squashfs

http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/

http://picocomputing.com/

Have an old Tungsten T that’s been on 24 hours, 7 days per week, when it suddenly had the backlight die.   Numerous soft resets and poking around did not fix it.   However, just a hard reset was all that was needed to restore the backlight to working order.   Hard reset on the Tungsten T is done by holding down the on/off button on the top left corner, then inserting something pointy (like the stylus) , into the back reset button, and hold for around 5 seconds.