Blog Like A Pirate Day, Yarr!

Arrrr, me hearties!

Today be the 19th day of September, the day on which scurvy-ridden bilge-rats like me cast words like "mizzen" and "barnacles" into our everyday conversation.

Ye can either get on board - or prepare to be boarded!

Cap'n Squirrel

Because it's all about putting back into the community..

From the "Things Sun Should Have Given Me With This Product" department, I've just knocked up a simple kludge perl script that others using SSGD (that's Sun Secure Global Desktop) may find useful when checking configurations across multiple arrays.

It produces something like this:

+ Attributes for .../_ens/o=Tarantella System Objects:
 | Organization: "Tarantella System Objects"
 | cdm: alldrives:none:same
 | clipboard: 2
 | editprofile: 2
 | objectclass: organization,scottaauxorganization,top
 | serialport: 2
 | webtop: sco/tta/standard
 + Attributes for .../_ens/o=Tarantella System Objects/cn=Administration Guide:
   | Name: "Administration Guide"
   | icon: help.gif
   | newbrowser: 1
   | objectclass: scottahtmldocument,top
   | url: help/en-us/admintocs/TOC_FUNC_TYPE.html
   + Attributes for .../_ens/o=Tarantella System Objects/cn=Administrator:
     | Name: Administrator
     | bandwidth: 0


You can grab ens_walk over at Google Docs. Tell them the Squirrels sent you.

Mutant Squirrels? No Thanks!

So, squirrels have been in the news today:

Attack squirrel bites trooper, 3-year-old
Rodent targets three, remains on loose in Orlando

WKMG LOCAL 6 NEWS

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Florida Highway Patrol trooper, a 3-year-old and an Orlando school worker were injured after being attacked by a wild squirrel.

Officers said the trooper was issuing a ticket during a traffic stop near Oakridge Children's Academy on Oakridge Road in Orlando Wednesday when the squirrel ran up and attacked him.

The officer was bitten before he could toss the squirrel off him.

Animal control officers were called to the area but before they could find the squirrel, it attacked and repeatedly bit a 3-year-old on a school playground.

A worker tried to remove the squirrel from the child and was also injured. Both were treated at hospitals. The boy is recovering at Arnold Palmer Hospital. The trooper was given antibiotics and released.

The squirrel remains on the loose in the area.

I guess they should have installed one of these, seen over at Swankisigns:

It's enough to make me want to have kids..

Tim pointed me in the direction of this entry over at MS Influentials. It seems that BRIO are making a Network Admin Playset where every child (3 years and over, probably due to some kind of spam-related choking hazard) can while away their afternoons delivering email. In these politically correct times perhaps it's time to replace "Cowboys and Indians" with "Email Operators and Virus Infections".

Creamy Leek, Mushroom & Baby Pea Pies

Okay, so they're not REALLY pies, but they're certainly creamy, leeky, mushroomy and contain a good helping of baby peas. This dish really is incredibly simple to make, with the hardest preparatory step being the slicing of the leeks. After I got through about 300g of the leeks, I was wishing that there would be some kind of magical kitchen fairy like they have on cooking shows, so that my ingredients would all arrive pre-cut, pre-washed and ready to assemble.

I used Swiss Brown mushrooms for flavour and forgot to put in a few grinds of black pepper which would have topped off the dish nicely. The mountain bread crisps up so beautifully in the oven. It not only looks impressive (although I'm impressed by anything that comes out of the oven that isn't black), but gives you something firm to dip into the creamy goodness within.

(The full recipe at is over at Recipezaar)