September
Nana’s Stuffed Peppers

Filed under culinary skills + domesticity

Nana’s Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients:

• 4 medium (Green) Peppers
• 1 pound Ground Chicken
• 4 tablespoons shredded Old White Cheddar Cheese, divided by 4
• 1/2 cup shredded Old White Cheddar Cheese
• 1/2 Teaspoon Black Pepper, divided by 4
• 2 cloves Garlic, minced
• 1 Red Onion, 8 rings divided by 4; rest chopped
• 1 Green Onion, chopped
• 1 Tomato, chopped
• 8 Mushrooms, sliced
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
• 2 Eggs, beaten
• 2 cups Rice, 1 cup Water (optional) *

Directions:

In a pan, cook Ground Chicken on Medium Heat for 25-30 minutes; add Eggs, Garlic, and Worcestershire Sauce. Stir in Red and Green Onions, Tomato, Mushrooms, and Old White Cheddar Cheese.

Back at 350° for 10-15 minutes.

* If having Rice, add to mixture before Old White Cheddar Cheese.

 ::  Link to entry  ::  2009-09-08  ::  scc

August
Twitter continues to defend itself against a DoS attack

Filed under etc + technology

2 hours ago, Twitter reported that its web site was down… although, Twitter really was not sure why…

According to Twitter’s status page, Twitter (now) says that it is/was under a denial of service attack (Wikipedia entry for Denial of Service Attack).

In a statement to CNN, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone (Wikipedia entry for Biz Stone) said:

“There’s no indication that this attack is related to any previous activities. We are currently the target of a denial of service attack. Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users. We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we defend and later investigate.”

Twitter now claims that the web site is now back up… however, somecanuckchick (still) cannot access Twitter, via the web site, TwitterFox, TwitterTools, etc.

In the meantime, here is a list of alternative things to do.

Update, from Twitter’s post regarding its recovery from the DoS attack:

“As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can.”

 ::  Link to entry  ::  2009-08-06  ::  scc

July
Czech Word of the Day No. 239

Filed under czechness + etc

The word of the day is škodolibost (škoda: damage, harm, or loss; libost: pleasure).

Škodolibost is the Český equivalent of German word schadenfreude which means “to take delight in the suffering or misfortune of another”.

 ::  Link to entry  ::  2009-07-16  ::  somecanuckchick