Chris Rodgers

Serves 2
Ingredients:
6 Sainsbury’s Taste-the-difference venison sausages
6oz plain flour
2 large eggs
pinch of salt & pepper
6 fl oz milk
4 fl oz water
Instructions:
1. Place sausages in a pyrex / ceramic dish about 15 x 25cm and 3cm deep.
2. Bake at 220 deg C for 20 min.
Meanwhile, make batter by
3. Mix together flour, salt & pepper in a large [...]

My HP iPAQ ran out of battery this morning. When I started it up, the memory was blank. When I tried to restore my files using Windows Mobile Device Center under Windows Vista, I got an annoying message saying that “Restore cannot be completed successfully. The selected backup file was created from a different type [...]

I own a Netgear WGT624 v4 router. This router runs a MIPS embedded version of Linux and I was curious whether it is possible to get shell access.
So far, I have failed, but in case anyone else is interested, I did find these things:

There is a useful webpage with details about a similar router at http://www.castalie.org/projects/DM111P.html
The [...]

I scratched my flat screen (LCD or TFT) monitor some months ago. For a while, I’ve just lived with the damage. This evening, however, I tried a trick I found on the web. I rubbed hard on the scratch with a white pencil eraser. After about 3-4min vigorous rubbing, the deep scratches on my monitor [...]

If you’re considering opening an account with the Halifax, my advice is don’t bother!
We recently moved house on 28 June. The same morning, I delivered change of address forms in person to our local branch. The woman behind the desk checked them, tapped the details into her computer and said that everything was fine.
Now, nearly [...]

This is a blog post made with Word 2007.

 
It contains the picture

 
And another

I found solutions to two long-standing irritations in Cygwin on Greg Coombe’s website.
Cygwin exit gives error message
Does exiting Cygwin sometimes generate a “Terminate Batch Job(Y/N)” message? If so, you’re probably using a Windows batch file to launch Cygwin. If the batch file doesn’t consist of much, then just put all of that information directly into [...]

My bank provides OFX format files for download from their Internet banking website. This short perl script ofx2txt converts these into tab delimited text files suitable to be opened in Excel.

I used the excellent bib2endnote project recently as a starting point to convert a DocArc library of references into EndNote format. This method retains any attachments.
Brief notes
:
Modify “docarc” binary, changing:
sub new
  {
  my $self = LWP::UserAgent::new( @_ );
  $self->agent( “getbibitem/$Version” );
  $self;
  }
to
    sub new
    {
        my $self = LWP::UserAgent::new( @_ );
        $self->timeout(60000); # Use a [...]

We went for a lovely walk with my family yesterday in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. There are a few public rights of way through the grounds, which you do not need to pay to use. The one we prefer begins on the A44 (”The Causeway”) here

You enter through the green gate marked “95″

All this [...]