Author: malliemcg
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Affleck Wines – (23 Apr – CD tour)
[ Key ]: B = Purchased S = Smelled T = Tasted W = Wishlist for another day (most of the wines are want?s at some point but given limited budgets, the ones I really want to come back and grab a couple of). Riesling 2013 [S+W]: ?Chalky shite flowers, Pear Apple combo on…
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Home Brew May 2014 – Dutch Lager
Mangrove Jacks Dutch Lager kit CBW Pilsen Light pure malt extract W34/70 Lager Yeast SG 1.042 Currently the wort is at 24C, will rehydrate and pitch the yeast tomorrow morning, hopefully it will have cooled to the ~12C range.
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Homebrew April/May 2014 – Stout w/ grain.
This morning I bottled my stout, made from an ESB 3kg “extra special stout” kit and 200gm of chocolate malt grain. It’s been in the fermenter for 16 days and spent the last 5 days at a specific gravity of 1.018 I am a little concerned by the last as I was expecting ~1.012-1.014 range,…
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Home Brew May 2014 – Pilsner
Just put down a Pilsner to begin ferment in the lovely mid autumn Canberra weather. Using the following: Yeast S-189 Pilsner/German Lager Morgans Golden Saaz Pilsner kit CBW Pilsen Light pure malt extract The specific gravity was 1.043 and is now sitting in the shed to ferment for the next 2 – 3 weeks.…
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Cider (Homebrew) April 2014
I bottled a home brew cider on the 24th of April. I grabbed one of the bottles and decided to taste, this is the result: Colour is a fairly deep yellow/orange. Nose is yeasty, herby and apply. Taste hits with a nice sharp apple twang, progresses into a smooth taste, then the yeast dominates…
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Lark Hill (Cellar Door) – Canberra District April 2014
As a Canberra local it’s only natural for me to completely take for granted the local wineries, and not visit them until having a visitor to take around. This seems to be a common theme among locals of most wine regions, they rarely if ever visit them and typically when they do visit it’s because…
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Reset toner page count Brother MFC 9330cdw
Restart printer to get it to a default state. Locate the * (asterisk) key, remember (or mark with a post it note – it;s inline with the “WiFi” text. Open the printer as if you were going to replace a toner cartridge. Press and hold the (*) until a menu appears, select the appropriate option…
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We’re back!
After a server move took out the database, I discovered that my automated backups were not as good as I thought. We’ve now gone back in time 18 months and now have to fill out the missing content, mainly some really good recipes :(, oh well, not the end of the world. I have been…
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Frustration thy name is google
Just having a whine about google changing the way they’re doing google apps for your domain. I’m sure that there are a lot of organisations out there for whom this is relevant, but really, would it have very nice to have been able to at the very least merge all my domain management accounts (eg…
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Original Starcraft – Graphics Fix – Win7 64bit
If you like me had a hankering to play the original StarCraft and ended up with odd colour (color – for those from the USA) artifacting the following reg file fixed my issues (a fully patched to 1.16 at time of writing) Just copy the following text into a new text document, rename it to…